Facing Tragedies

Author : Naomi Zack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538151204

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The American Tragedy of COVID-19 by Naomi Zack Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy. Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths. Preparation was woefully inadequate for the 2020 tidal wave of COVID-19 that broke over the medical system, the educational system, the lives of the poor, essential workers, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and women, especially. Rhetoric and conspiracy theories flourished, as Red and Blue Americans politicized the pandemic. Police reform became urgent after billions witnessed George Floyd’s death. The war of the statues evoked new conflicts over free speech. The X-ray nature of COVID-19 has revealed the United States to itself, in character, incompetence, superstition, and injustice, but also in dedication to caring for others and abiding resilience. The core of democracy held after the 2020 election but vigilance is newly important and required. As a record of this US Plague Year and an argument for why we need to prepare for Climate Change, as well as the next pandemic, this book is an essential resource for every student, scholar, and citizen.

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316516256

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Choral Tragedy by Claude Calame Pdf

Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.

Author : S. T. Satterthwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002081765O

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Social Tragedies by S. T. Satterthwaite Pdf

Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691020051

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Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann Pdf

A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Author : W. Scott Lineberry
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597817141

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Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus by W. Scott Lineberry Pdf

A powerful book for those whose spirit is broken from tragedy and loss who also feel a break in their heart from God, must reading likewise for friends and family.

Author : Christy Monson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781641701341

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Finding Peace in Times of Tragedy by Christy Monson Pdf

Finding peace in times of worldwide trauma is difficult, and finding peace in times of personal trauma such as a family death or tragedy can be overwhelming. Therapist Christy Monson professionally and compassionately describes how tragedy physically changes the brain and the body, and she provides powerful techniques to help heal those invisible wounds and cope with the turmoil of our day. Chapters are interspersed with moving, first-hand accounts that span the range of human tragedy, including those from A 9/11 survivor Parents who had two children die of brain tumors A mother whose son lost a leg in a road side bomb in Afghanistan A young adult whose father committed suicide And a rape survivor. Through detailed research, years of experience, and detailed interviews with survivors, Monson shows that there is hope for not just peace but also joy after tragedy.

Author : Julie Salamon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780375759406

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Facing the Wind by Julie Salamon Pdf

Robert and Mary Rowe’s second child, Christopher, was born with severe neurological and visual impairments. For many years, the Rowes’ courageous response to adversity set an example for other parents of children with birth defects. Then the pressures on Bob Rowe—personal and professional—took their toll, and he fell into depression and, ultimately, delusion. And one day he took a baseball bat and killed his wife and three children. Julie Salamon deftly avoids sensationalism as she tells the Rowes’ tragic story with intelligence, sympathy, and insight. Like all great literary journalism, Facing the Wind asks us to join its issues and examine our own lives and problems in the new, bright light that good writing always sheds.

Author : Kenneth D. Benne
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813185811

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Education for Tragedy by Kenneth D. Benne Pdf

A distinguished educator and social critic here considers the demands put upon democratic and progressive policies in education, which remains, he believes, man's strongest hope for creating new bases for human values in an age of change and cultural crisis. The importance of human worth and individual advancement, within communities and varied age demographics, is analyzed.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350449

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Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley Pdf

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086738408

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The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3D3N

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Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924016649570

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Select Plays: The tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:475101870

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Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller Pdf

Author : Manya Lempert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108496025

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Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert Pdf

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.

Author : Etgar Keret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698166110

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Fly Already by Etgar Keret Pdf

From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move... In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.