Fallen Angels Sing

Author : Omar Torres
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921465

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Fallen Angels Sing by Omar Torres Pdf

To escape the wrath of a deceived husband, Miguel Saavedra, a poet of sorts, abandons the good-time existential vacuum of MiamiÍs uprooted younger Cubans for New York. There he is caught in a web of plots spun by pro- and anti-Castro agents. The surrealistic flow of days and nights which follow lead the protagonist from university lecture hall to transvestite bar, from the arms of a beautiful woman to the dark regions of a basement santerÕa temple. As the barriers between dream and reality, fact and fiction disappear, the ultimate purpose of MiguelÍs life is unveiled before him: Miguel, like St. Michael, must confront the eternal foe: angels and archangels of evil incarnate. Omar TorresÍ Fallen Angels Sing, an English recreation by the author of his novel Apenas un bolero, is a magnificent tour de force that keeps the reader hanging on by a thread through to its unexpected ending.

Author : Michelle Prather
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781600584183

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How to Draw Fallen Angels by Michelle Prather Pdf

Featuring tools and professional guidance on how to draw the dark world of fallen angels, including angel wings, accessories, the angel of death, a good angel and bad angel, a Steampunk angel, and many more!

Author : Asst Prof Erin Minear
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409479123

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Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton by Asst Prof Erin Minear Pdf

In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music–heard, imagined, or remembered–to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual sensibility. They portray music as uncanny and divine, expressive and opaque, promoting associative rather than logical thought processes and unearthing unexpected memories. The title reflects the multiple and overlapping meanings of reverberation in the study: the lingering and infectious nature of musical sound; the questionable status of audible, earthly music as an echo of celestial harmonies; and one writer's allusions to another. Minear argues that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' stem from Shakespeare's engagement with how music works-and that Milton was deeply influenced by this aspect of Shakespearean poetics. Analyzing Milton's account of Shakespeare's 'warbled notes,' she demonstrates that he saw Shakespeare as a peculiarly musical poet, deeply and obscurely moving his audience with language that has ceased to mean, but nonetheless lingers hauntingly in the mind. Obsessed with the relationship between words and music for reasons of his own, including his father's profession as a composer, Milton would adopt, adapt, and finally reject Shakespeare's form of musical poetics in his own quest to 'join the angel choir.' Offering a new way of looking at the work of two major authors, this study engages and challenges scholars of Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern culture.

Author : Erin Minear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317063728

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Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton by Erin Minear Pdf

In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual sensibility. They portray music as uncanny and divine, expressive and opaque, promoting associative rather than logical thought processes and unearthing unexpected memories. The title reflects the multiple and overlapping meanings of reverberation in the study: the lingering and infectious nature of musical sound; the questionable status of audible, earthly music as an echo of celestial harmonies; and one writer's allusions to another. Minear argues that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' stem from Shakespeare's engagement with how music works-and that Milton was deeply influenced by this aspect of Shakespearean poetics. Analyzing Milton's account of Shakespeare's 'warbled notes,' she demonstrates that he saw Shakespeare as a peculiarly musical poet, deeply and obscurely moving his audience with language that has ceased to mean, but nonetheless lingers hauntingly in the mind. Obsessed with the relationship between words and music for reasons of his own, including his father's profession as a composer, Milton would adopt, adapt, and finally reject Shakespeare's form of musical poetics in his own quest to 'join the angel choir.' Offering a new way of looking at the work of two major authors, this study engages and challenges scholars of Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern culture.

Author : Isabel Alvarez-Borland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813918138

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Cuban-American Literature of Exile by Isabel Alvarez-Borland Pdf

The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.

Author : María Cristina García
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520211179

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Havana USA by María Cristina García Pdf

A Cuban refugee raised in Miami, Maria Cristina Garcia presents a comprehensive and revealing account of the unprecedented Cuban migration into South Florida since Fidel Castro came to power. Garcia's exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.

Author : Kristin A. Pruitt,Charles W. Durham
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 157591123X

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John Milton by Kristin A. Pruitt,Charles W. Durham Pdf

"These ten essays, originally presented at the 2005 Conference on John Milton, sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, were selected for inclusion in this collection on the basis of merit rather than theme, focus, or critical approach. Nonetheless, they all suggest, albeit from disparate perspectives, ways in which careful attention to Milton's language, to his "reasoning words," can offer a colorful palette of choices for the contemporary reader."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Seth Herbst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000881547

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Milton and Music by Seth Herbst Pdf

Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe—even the human soul—is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton’s visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton’s own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet’s political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary.

Author : Joseph F. Kelly
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814683965

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The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition by Joseph F. Kelly Pdf

The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanity—why do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western thinkers have dealt with the problem of evil, starting in ancient Israel and tracing the question through post-biblical Judaism, Early Christianity (especially in Africa), the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and to the twenty-first century when science has raised new and important issues. Joseph Kelly covers the book of Job, the book of Revelation, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Luther, Marlow, Milton, Voltaire, Hume, Mary Shelley, Darwin, Jung, Flannery O'Connor, Karl Rahner, Teilhard de Chardin, and modern geneticists. Chapters are "Some Perspectives on Evil," "Israel and Evil," "The New Adam," "Out of Africa," "The Broken Cosmos," "The Middle Ages," "Decline and Reform of Humanism," "The Devil's Last Stand," "Rationalizing Evil," "The Attack on Christianity," "Dissident Voices," "Human Evil in the Nineteenth Century," "Science, Evil, and Original Sin," "Modern Literary Approaches to Evil," "Some Scientific Theories of Evil," and "Modern Religious Approaches to Evil." Joseph F. Kelly, Ph.D., is professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The World of the Early Christians, published by The Liturgical Press.

Author : Richard Cronin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349164714

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Shelley’s Poetic Thoughts by Richard Cronin Pdf

Author : Isabel Alvarez Borland,Lynette M. F. Bosch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791493724

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Cuban-American Literature and Art by Isabel Alvarez Borland,Lynette M. F. Bosch Pdf

This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups—hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts.

Author : Gustav Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780029070529

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Dictionary of Angels by Gustav Davidson Pdf

In the midst of the remarkable revival of interest and belief in angels comes this handsomely illustrated reference work--the fruit of 16 years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts. "A wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore".--Time. Illustrations.

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781365807145

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My American Harp by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.

Author : M. Delores Carlito
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810856808

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Cuban-American Fiction in English by M. Delores Carlito Pdf

This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.

Author : Hazel Raven
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1402741901

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The Angel Bible by Hazel Raven Pdf

A guide for working with angels offers exercises that will help with self-understanding, overcoming obstacles, and developing wisdom, and shows how to invite angels into the human life.