Discovering The Many Worlds Of Literature

Author : Stuart Hirschberg,Terry Hirschberg
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0321102126

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Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature by Stuart Hirschberg,Terry Hirschberg Pdf

Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature is a new literature for composition text organized by theme, with readings from four genres (essays, short fiction, poems, and dramatic works) from around the world. "The range, quality, and freshness of this text's readings astonish me..This text has the finest range of readings..that I have seen in 25 years of teaching" Dr. Will Tomory, Southwestern Michigan College. Two introductory chapters on reading and writing about literature lead into seven chapters on the theme of human development, from family and cultural ties through considerations of class, race, and ethnicity, to the spiritual dimension of human life. Each thematic chapter is preceded by a brief introduction to the theme, and each chapter concludes with "Connections," questions that help students to see connections between different works in different genres, and "Filmography," an annotated list of suggested films. Each reading is followed by a set of questions to help students analyze the text, understand the author's techniques, and develop an interpretation of the work. The text emphasizes the development of an effective argument for an interpretation of a literary work, both in the introductory chapters and in "Arguing for an Interpretation" questions at the end of each reading. The extraordinary breadth of the reading selections, and the diversity of the authors represented in the text, are unique; students will find some classic works, such as Shakespeare's "Hamlet," along with many less well known writings from authors around the globe, representing Eastern as well as Western cultures. Students will be challenged to understand the cultural context of the readings, and stimulated to provide meaningful analysis and interpretation of the texts.

Author : Judy A. Hayden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137568038

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Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery by Judy A. Hayden Pdf

The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.

Author : Stuart Hirschberg,Terry Hirschberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : College readers
ISBN : 053660939X

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The Many Worlds of Literature by Stuart Hirschberg,Terry Hirschberg Pdf

Author : Christopher Edge
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524713584

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The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge Pdf

Fun science meets humor and heart in this adventure about a boy who is searching for his mother . . . in a parallel universe. Stephen Albie Bright leads a happy, normal life. Well, as normal as it gets with two astrophysicist parents who named their son after their favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. But then Albie’s mother dies of cancer, and his world is shattered. When his father explains that she might be alive in a parallel universe, Albie knows he has to find her. So, armed with a box, a laptop, and a banana, Albie sets out to do just that. Of course, when you’re universe-hopping for the very first time, it’s difficult to find the one you want. As Albie searches, he discovers some pretty big surprises about himself and our universe(s), and stumbles upon the answers to life’s most challenging questions. A poignant, funny, and heartwarming adventure, this extraordinary novel is for anyone who has ever been curious. Praise for The Many Worlds of Albie Bright: “A big book with a big brain, big laughs, and a big, big heart.” —FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE, New York Times bestselling author of Millions and Cosmic “Hilarious and full of heart.” —PIERS TORDAY, author of The Last Wild “I’d love this book in all the worlds. Heartbreaking, heartwarming, heartstopping. Amazing.” —HOLLY SMALE, author of the award-winning Geek Girl series “Heartwarming.” —The Guardian “Proves the theory that novels about science can be enormous fun.” —The Times Children’s Book of the Week (UK) “Moving, and exploding with scientific ideas and wonder.” —The Herald (UK)

Author : Arthur Gibson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039109162

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What is Literature? by Arthur Gibson Pdf

The answer to the question 'what is literature?' has not been found. This is the first book-length attempt to find the answer, by one author, since Sartre in his 1948 book with the same title. The book addresses issues such as: how does literature speak to the world; what is great writing; what is originality; what sorts of truths are there, if any, in creative writing? The book uses hundreds of literary examples, and confronts them with philosophy. The book also explores some big questions about the meaning of life, and sets them against a range of literature. It asks questions like: how does great science relate to literature? The book advances the concept of counter-intuition, as part of the basis for answering the question 'what is literature?' The book is also concerned with practical matters, such as the ways literature is involved with war, corruption, rights, suffering and hope.

Author : Bryce Seligman Dewitt,Neill Graham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400868056

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The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Bryce Seligman Dewitt,Neill Graham Pdf

A novel interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed in brief form by Hugh Everett in 1957, forms the nucleus around which this book has developed. In his interpretation, Dr. Everett denies the existence of a separate classical realm and asserts the propriety of considering a state vector for the whole universe. Because this state vector never collapses, reality as a whole is rigorously deterministic. This reality, which is described jointly by the dynamical variables and the state vector, is not the reality customarily perceived; rather, it is a reality composed of many worlds. By virtue of the temporal development of the dynamical variables, the state vector decomposes naturally into orthogonal vectors, reflecting a continual splitting of the universe into a multitude of mutually unobservable but equally real worlds, in each of which every good measurement has yielded a definite result, and in most of which the familiar statistical quantum laws hold. The volume contains Dr. Everett's short paper from 1957, "'Relative State' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics," and a far longer exposition of his interpretation, entitled "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function," never before published. In addition, other papers by Wheeler, DeWitt, Graham, and Cooper and Van Vechten provide further discussion of the same theme. Together, they constitute virtually the entire world output of scholarly commentary on the Everett interpretation. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anna Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400742611

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Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies by Anna Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine...these are the life manifestations of the skies. The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing clouds. While our intellect concentrates on the discovery of our cosmic position, on the architecture of the universe, our imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the glimmers of fleeting light, and the glory of the skies. Reconnoitering from the soil of human life and striving towards the infinite, the elan of imagination gets caught up in the clouds of the skies. There in that dimness, sensory receptivity, dispositions, emotions, passionate strivings, yearnings, elevations gather and propagate. From the “Passions of the Skies” spring innermost intuitions that nourish literature and the arts.​

Author : Christoph Kalter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107074514

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The Discovery of the Third World by Christoph Kalter Pdf

This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War.

Author : Zhang Longxi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000933413

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World Literature as Discovery by Zhang Longxi Pdf

The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even "minor" European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin. World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and "minor" European literatures. As much of the world’s literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism, and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name. This book speaks for a more inclusive idea of world literature and shows students and scholars alike that all the literary traditions, particularly non-European traditions, will be able to make important contributions and expand the canon of world literature.

Author : Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350374089

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The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature by Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler Pdf

On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.

Author : Rājēndra Cenni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015063145588

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Of Many Worlds by Rājēndra Cenni Pdf

Author : Dominic J. Nardi,N. Trevor Brierly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476646725

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Discovering Dune by Dominic J. Nardi,N. Trevor Brierly Pdf

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings. Unlike Tolkien's work, the Dune series has received remarkably little academic attention. This collection includes fourteen new essays from various academic disciplines--including philosophy, political science, disability studies, Islamic theology, environmental studies, and Byzantine history--that examine all six of Herbert's Dune books. As a compendium, it asserts that a multidisciplinary approach to the texts can lead to fresh discoveries. Also included in this collection are an introduction by Tim O'Reilly, who authored one of the first critical appraisals of Herbert's writings in 1981, and a comprehensive bibliography of essential primary and secondary sources.

Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107109988

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The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth by Steven J. Dick Pdf

This book discusses the big questions about how the discovery of extraterrestrial life, whether intelligent or microbial, would impact society and humankind.

Author : Stanley Barber Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X000206718

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The Realm of Science: Many worlds: the discovery of galactic systems by Stanley Barber Brown Pdf

Author : Bernard de Fontenelle,M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : 1843913666

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A Discovery of New Worlds by Bernard de Fontenelle,M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) Pdf

In this charming and witty dialogue translated by the first professional woman writer in English, a 17th century astronomer staying at the chateau of a beautiful Marchioness accompanies her into her garden at night and introduces her to the new discoveries of astronomy Although more than 300 years old, Fontenelle's dialogues in a garden over five nights are still a surprisingly painless way to learn about the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars, even though new planets were later discovered and modern science has filled out many details Fontenelle could not have known. Only the confidence with which he discusses inhabitants of the planets, the moon, and even the sun is now seen as misplaced. This is no lecture, but a conversation with the cut and thrust of intelligent argument as the Marchioness challenges each of the astronomer's assertions and requires him to explain the evidence. Fontenelle's work has been through the hands of many different translators, but Aphra Behn's translation, one of the earliest, adds the feminine wit of a leading dramatist to the work, in the first modern edition of this translation.