Guilt By Descent

Author : N. J. Sewell-Rutter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191615481

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Guilt by Descent by N. J. Sewell-Rutter Pdf

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He pays particular attention to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but in very different, and perhaps complementary, ways. All Greek quotations are translated, making his study thoroughly accessible to the non-specialist reader.

Author : Neil James Sewell-Rutter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132174296

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Guilt by Descent by Neil James Sewell-Rutter Pdf

"Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. Many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation, and the questions of how these features work and how a mortal agent under the canopy of these principles can be said to decide and act are by no means new. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He discusses in detail a wide range of tragedies and other Greek texts, paying particular attention to two closely related plays, the Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus and the Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but in very different, and perhaps complementary, ways. In his final chapter Sewell-Rutter uses these perspectives to refine his focus upon the familiar question of what it is for a human character in tragedy to take a decision and to act : are these actions his or her own, and can they properly be laid to the charge of their human originator? All Greek quotations are translated, making this study thoroughly accessible to the non-specialist reader."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Author : Pieter d’Hoine,Gerd Van Riel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789058679703

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Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought by Pieter d’Hoine,Gerd Van Riel Pdf

Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of late Antiquity (Plotinus, Proclus, Simplicius), and thirteenth-century scholasticism (Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent). They do not only represent key moments in the intellectual history of the West, but are also the central figures and periods to which Carlos Steel, the dedicatary of this volume, has devoted his philosophical career.

Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139510837

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Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative by Jan-Melissa Schramm Pdf

Jan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption celebrated the suffering of the innocent: to embrace a life of metaphorical self-sacrifice was to follow in the footsteps of Christ's literal Passion. Moreover, the ethical agenda of fiction relied on the expansion of sympathy which imaginative substitution was seen to encourage. But Victorian criminal law sought to calibrate punishment and culpability as it repudiated archaic models of sacrifice that scapegoated the innocent. The tension between these models is registered creatively in the fiction of novelists such as Dickens, Gaskell and Eliot, at a time when acts of Chartist protest, national sacrifices made during the Crimean War, and the extension of the franchise combined to call into question what it means for one man to 'stand for', and perhaps even 'die for', another.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : RD Bentley
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074943634

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Arthur B. Coffin
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 0773499032

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The Questions of Tragedy by Arthur B. Coffin Pdf

A selection of essays on tragedy, this volume begins with the premise that any reading of tragedy can be stimulated and enriched by supplementary critical texts which have been selected for precisely those qualities that would enhance one's response to tragedy. The text attempts a reconstruction of the canon of the criticism of tragedy through a critical overview of traditional classical commentary, Russian Formalism, Reader Response Theory, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstructionism, and Marxist criticism. Includes selections from the writings of Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, Georg Lukacs, Arthur Miller, Karl Jaspers, Max Sheler, Laurence Michel, Henry Alonzo Myers, Northrop Frye, Albert C. Outler, and others.

Author : Alyssa Lyra Pitstick
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802840394

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Light in Darkness by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Pdf

He descended into hell. Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, placed this affirmation of the Nicene Creed at the heart of his reflection on the world-altering events of Holy Week, asserting that this identification of God with the human experience is at the "absolute center" of the Christian faith. Yet is such a descent to suffering really the essence of Catholic belief about the mystery of Holy Saturday? Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's Light in Darkness -- the first comprehensive treatment of Balthasar's theology of Holy Saturday -- draws on the multiple yet unified resources of authoritative Catholic teaching on Christ's descent to challenge Balthasar's conclusions. Pitstick conducts a thorough investigation of Balthasar's position that Christ suffered in his descent into hell and asks whether that is compatible with traditional teaching about Christ. Light in Darkness is a thorough argument for the existence and authority of a traditional Catholic doctrine of Christ's descent as manifested in creeds, statements of popes and councils, Scripture, and art from Eastern and Western traditions. Pitstick's carefully argued, contrarian work is sure to spur debate across the theological spectrum.

Author : Jeff Soloway
Publisher : Alibi
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804178198

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The Last Descent by Jeff Soloway Pdf

A murder at the Grand Canyon throws travel writer and amateur sleuth Jacob Smalls (“An ideal guide for journeying into unknown territories.”—Christopher Fowler) into a mob conspiracy of epic proportions. Not only has Jacob Smalls just been dumped, his now-ex-girlfriend, fellow travel writer Jewel Rider, has wasted no time moving on. But when she cozies up to the PR man for a newly erected luxury hotel near the Grand Canyon, Jacob thinks he knows what Jewel’s really after: the inside scoop on the hotel’s owner, Gus Greenbaum, a gangster who built his desert oasis on bribery and intimidation. So after Jewel plunges to her death while hiking the canyon, Jacob isn’t ready to believe it was an accident. As an excuse to do some snooping, Jacob joins a press trip to Gus’s hotel. Notes hidden deep inside Jewel’s backpack reveal that she may have had more dirt on Gus than she realized, and as Jacob follows her leads, he inches closer to the truth. But Gus is onto him too. One of his thugs seems to be watching Jacob’s every move. And now Jacob will need to use every trick in the book before he’s wiped off the map. Praise for The Travel Writer “Travel doesn’t just broaden the mind; it can also get you killed. Sassy, cynical Jacob Smalls is an ideal guide for journeying into unknown territories.”—Christopher Fowler, author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series

Author : Gina Sanchetti Austin
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982250652

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Guilt Trip Detox by Gina Sanchetti Austin Pdf

GUILT TRIP DETOX addresses the theme of manufactured guilt you often thrust upon yourself for no apparent reason. Each chapter contains a story which details a specific type of guilt and strategies to overcome its emotionally debilitating effects. The author created the GUILT MONSTER in order to make GUILT tangible and easier to understand. Laced with humor, this book will quash your GUILTY mindset and set you free! An informative and fun read, GUILT TRIP DETOX will equip you to cancel gloomy GUILT TRIPS, and leave you feeling as if aboard a sun-drenched pleasure cruise. Bon Voyage!

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815333196

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Encyclopedia of Early Christianity by Everett Ferguson Pdf

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alex Woloch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691113130

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The One Vs. the Many by Alex Woloch Pdf

Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:319510013343486

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The Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0880488743

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The Broken Connection by Robert Jay Lifton Pdf

The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable connections between death and life, the psychiatric disorders that arise from these connections, and the advent of the nuclear age which has jeopardized any attempts to ensure the perpetuation of the self beyond death.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107435346

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece by Renaud Gagné Pdf

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.

Author : Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681496009

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Tragedy Under Grace by Hans Urs Von Balthasar Pdf

In Tragedy Under Grace, Hans Urs von Balthasar presents a magisterial portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the European Catholic renaissance, the historian and man of letters, Reinhold Schneider, whose response to the spiritual collapse of the West led him to Christ and to an interpretation of history in the light of the cross. Balthasar's painstaking reconstruction of Schneider's spiritual and intellectual itinerary, which traces the author's discovery of the presence of grace in the tragic conflicts of history, will be valuable for those desiring to understand the historical experience of the West, the relationship between faith and culture, or the role of the Catholic layman in the world. Anyone looking for a profound - and costly - response to the cultural crisis of our own day will also find in this book a source of understanding and inspiration.