By Authors Possessed

Author : Adam Weiner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810116146

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By Authors Possessed examines the development of the demonic in key Russian novels from the last two centuries. Defining the demonic novel as one that takes as its theme an evil presence incarnated in the protagonists and attributed to the Judeo-Christian Devil, Adam Weiner investigates the way the content of such a book can compromise the moral integrity of its narration and its sense of authorship. Weiner contends that the theme of demonism increasingly infects the narrative point of view from Gogol's Dead Souls to Dostoevsky's The Devils and Bely's Petersburg, until Nabokov exorcised the demonic novel through his fiction and his criticism. Starting from the premise that artistic creation has always been enshrouded in a haze of moral dilemma and religious doubt, Weiner's study of the demonic novel is an attempt to illuminate the potential ethical perils and aesthetic gains of great art.

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429936415

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The Possessed by Elif Batuman Pdf

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel's last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel's secret influence on the making of King Kong, and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature. Batuman's subsequent pieces—for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the London Review of Books— have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their place in The Possessed. Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence—including her own.

Author : Kate Cann
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545128131

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Possessed by Kate Cann Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.

Author : Jowita Bydlowska
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459748095

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Possessed by Jowita Bydlowska Pdf

“Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale.” — GLOBE AND MAIL Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island. Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed — by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn’t promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural. A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Author : Bruce Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190699918

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Possessed by Bruce Hood Pdf

Ownership is on most people's lips these days, or at least the lack of ownership. Everywhere people seem to be fighting over what is theirs. They want to take back their property, their lands, their liberty, their bodies, their identity, and their right to do what they want. These demands arequite remarkable when you consider that ownership is not an observable property but rather an abstract concept. And yet this abstract concept controls just about everything we do, and rarely do we stop to consider how it rules our lives. Ownership even explains the anger and political turmoil thatis currently sweeping over Western democracies: people feel they have had something taken away, something they used to own in the past and want back.Possessed is the first accessible book to consider the psychological origins and future of ownership in a rapidly changing world. It reveals how we are compelled to accumulate possessions in a relentless drive to seek status and approval by signalling our values to others by what we own. It tracesthe history of ownership but looks to the future as our drive to own will need to adapt to environmental and technological change.

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : IOWA:31858014749844

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Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525520887

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Possessed by Memory by Harold Bloom Pdf

In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest and most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than eighty meditations on poems and prose that have haunted him since childhood and which he has possessed by memory: from the Psalms and Ecclesiastes to Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson; Spenser and Milton to Wordsworth and Keats; Whitman and Browning to Joyce and Proust; Tolstoy and Yeats to Delmore Schwartz and Amy Clampitt; Blake to Wallace Stevens--and so much more. And though he has written before about some of these authors, these exegeses, written in the winter of his life, are movingly informed by "the freshness of last things." As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made. My other concern is religious, in the widest sense. For me poetry and spirituality fuse as a single entity. All my long life I have sought to isolate poetic knowledge. This also involves a knowledge of God and gods. I see imaginative literature as a kind of theurgy in which the divine is summoned, maintained, and augmented."

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547010906

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Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pdf

Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This societal and political satire tells the story of a fictitious city plunging into chaos as it becomes the crucial point of an attempted revolution.

Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : Possessed Ppr
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000004625617

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Possessed, Or, The Secret of Myslotch by Witold Gombrowicz Pdf

"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing," Gombrowicz said of his work and in this later day Gothic novel he uses all the traditional paraphernalia of haunted castles, mad prince, and riddle from the past to tell the very modern story of two young people caught up in a drama of shifting identities.

Author : Atu Yalley
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333352904

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Possessed! by Atu Yalley Pdf

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : 9781847083135

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The Possessed by Elif Batuman Pdf

Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence--including her own.

Author : Elana Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442421264

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Possession by Elana Johnson Pdf

In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, 15-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.

Author : Katherine Dunham
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307819840

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Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham Pdf

Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive. Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today. Full of the flare and suspense of immersion in a strange and enchanting culture, Island Possessed is also a pioneering work in the anthropology of dance and a fascinating document on Haitian politics and voodoo.

Author : Frederick M. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : 9780231137485

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The Self Possessed by Frederick M. Smith Pdf

The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He identifies several forms of possession, including festival, initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious identities. Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity, and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet, classical China, modern America, and elsewhere. Brilliant and persuasive, The Self Possessed provides careful new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive study in any language on this subject.

Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172684594X

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Hell by Tom Lewis Pdf

Something Evil is Inside Cassie Stevens For fans of The Exorcist and Stephen King comes a terrifying new tale of supernatural horror. Cassie Stevens was 16 years old the night she died. When she's revived 20 minutes later, unsettling changes begin to occur. They're in the shadow she sees from the corner of her eye, and the face in reflections, and the whispers in her mind... and awaking at night to the cold unseen presence of something in her room... But the changes aren't just around her - they're inside her. Something ominous followed Cassie back from beyond death. Something infinite in hatred and horror. And it won't stop till she's dead. See the Book Trailer on the Author page.