Hesitant Heroes

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501711275

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Hesitant Heroes by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

Why, Theodore Ziolkowski wonders, does Western literature abound with figures who experience a crucial moment of uncertainty in their actions? In this highly original and engaging work, he explores the significance of these unlikely heroes for literature and history.From Aeneas—who wavered momentarily before plunging his sword into Turnus's chest—to Hamlet, Orestes, Parzival, Wallenstein, and others, including Kafka's Josef K., Ziolkowski demonstrates that characters' private uncertainty reveals a classic opposition of binary forces. He describes how Aeneas, for example, was forced to choose between the ancient code of blood vengeance and the new civic virtues of law and justice. Ziolkowski asserts that the indecision of the characters reflects the tensions that authors observed in their own societies. Drawing on the insights of Hegel and Freud, he analyzes the ways in which these tensions represent turning points in cultural history. In stark contrast to Aeneas, Josef K. temporized for a year before his executioners thrust a knife into his heart. For Ziolkowski, the centuries separating Virgil and Kafka are ones in which the notion of the hero was transformed almost to the point of total inversion. He sheds light on this transformation and a corresponding change in literary form.

Author : James Baddock
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782347750

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Reluctant Heroes by James Baddock Pdf

THE DUTCH CAPER First in the Cormack and Woodward series, it involves a dangerous mission into wartime Europe in order to try and find vital information about the ‘Liechtenstein' onboard radar system that Luftwaffe night fighters are using to shoot down RAF bombers in ever increasing numbers. The only way to do this is to steal a night fighter from a securely guarded Luftwaffe air base... Based on a true story. EMERALD Sequel to The Dutch Caper, where Cormack and Woodward have to fly into Berlin during the last days of the War, in order to bring out ‘Emerald', a highly placed British agent, who is being hunted, not just by the Gestapo, but by Soviet Intelligence as well. The action takes place against a background of a Berlin that is being systematically destroyed by the attacking Red Army. BERLIN ENDGAME The third book in the series, set during the Berlin Blockade of 1948. Cormack and Woodward uncover an assassination plot that, if successful, could spark armed conflict in Berlin that, almost inevitably, will lead to World War Three... Bad enough that they don't know when or where the killing is to take place, but even worse is the suspicion that their own superiors could be involved...

Author : Sharon René
Publisher : Anaiah Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1954189117

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Hesitant Heroes by Sharon René Pdf

In a future where the planet is ruled by the powerful Global Collective Council, and religion is outlawed, Jordan Scott is chosen to attend Global Collective University because of her phenomenal computer skills. Shy and insecure, she has difficulty fitting in with the intelligent, worldly teens at GCU. She joins a secret Bible study and meets Matthew Thomas, a good-looking jock with a big heart. Jordan's relationship with Matthew grows deeper, and she even manages to bond with her cranky roommate while growing closer to her fellow teammates. When Christian students mysteriously start disappearing from campus, Jordan stumbles upon the shocking truth-these students are pawns in a government plot, and she's next on their list. Suddenly, she's forced into a leadership position as she and her teammates journey from the European Alps to the jungles of Venezuela in a race to save the missing students and stop a political assassination. Fighting fears that have haunted her for years, Jordan battles with the strongest political force on the planet. She believes God placed her at GCU for "such a time as this." Jordan will have to rely on her faith and friends to save the missing students and foil the evil government.

Author : Kexue Ma
Publisher : Kexue Ma
Page : 1255 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wuxia Novel: Super Evil Hero by Kexue Ma Pdf

Author : J. Wilt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137426987

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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance by J. Wilt Pdf

Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett.

Author : Julio Andrade
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030616304

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Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility by Julio Andrade Pdf

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition. It first asks whether supererogation can be conceptualised in the absence of obligation or duty and then makes the case that it can be. It does so by enlisting the resources of the continental tradition, specifically using the work of Emmanuel Levinas and his notion of infinite responsibility. In so doing the book contributes to the ongoing efforts to create a common ethical terminology between the analytic and continental traditions within moral philosophy. Supererogatory actions are praiseworthy actions that go ‘beyond duty’, and yet are not blameworthy when not performed. In responding to this paradox, moral philosophy either brackets or attempts a reductionism of supererogation. Supererogation is epitomised in the paradigmatic figures of the saint and hero. Yet, most would agree that emulating these figures is too morally demanding. We rightly ask: where does moral obligation end? Is it even possible, or desirable to demarcate such a boundary? Besides the important theoretical issues these questions raise, they also speak to practical ethical dilemmas in the contemporary milieu, as they concern the global wealthy’s responsibility to the poor and the challenges of development aid work.

Author : Vivasvan Soni,Thomas Pfau
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810136335

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Judgment and Action by Vivasvan Soni,Thomas Pfau Pdf

Written by theologians, literary scholars, political theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in Judgment and Action address the growing sense that certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid the current plethora of critical methods. These essays aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and action, two concepts at the very core of literary analysis, systematic theology, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and other disciplines. Interpretation is essential to every humanistic discipline, and every interpretation is an act of judgment. Yet the work of interpretation and judgment has been called into question by contemporary methods in the humanities, which incline either toward contextual determination of meaning or toward the suspension of judgment altogether. Action is closely related to judgment and interpretation and like them, it has been rendered questionable. An action is not simply the performance of a deed but requires the deed’s intelligibility, which can be secured only through interpretation and judgment. Organized into four broad themes—interiority/contemplation, ethics, politics/community, and aesthetics/image—the aim of this broad-ranging and insightful collection is to illuminate the histories of judgment and action, identify critical sites from which rethinking them may begin, clarify how they came to be challenged, and relocate them within a broader intellectual-historical trajectory that renders them intelligible.

Author : Robert Shail,Samantha Holland,Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787691094

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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia by Robert Shail,Samantha Holland,Steven Gerrard Pdf

Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781459627376

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Modes of Faith by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made a pilgrimage to India in search of enlightenment. Other writers, such as Roger Martin du Gard and Thomas Mann, sought temporary solace in communism or myth. And H. G. Wells, Ziolkowski argues, took refuge in utopian dreams projected in another dimension altogether. Rooted in innovative and careful comparative reading of the work of writers from France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia, Modes of Faith is a critical masterpiece by a distinguished literary scholar that offers an abundance of insight to anyone interested in the human compulsion to believe in forces that transcend the individual.

Author : Chi FanShuDeHongShao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649751553

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Red Alert: Calamity Era by Chi FanShuDeHongShao Pdf

The world after the nuclear war was a wasteland, and nature was radiating with extraordinary vitality! The world was shrouded in green, and the lush woodlands had become a paradise for all living beings to hunt and evolve! The former hegemon of humanity had become the lowest level of existence in the food chain, surviving tenaciously and with great difficulty! The gears of history have begun to turn again, beginning with the Dirty Valley.

Author : Daniel Mitchell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781312540385

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Pondering Things: About the Bible, Christianity, and Other Stuff. by Daniel Mitchell Pdf

This is a book of essays pondering the meanings of the Bible, Christianity, and various related subjects. These essays were written during the period from November 2003 through June 2009 and posted to forums and blogs on the Internet. The essays were written because of a felt need to answer questions about the Christian message for myself and others. Sometimes irreverent, the essays cover a variety of topics but always with the intent to inform and entertain the reader without getting too involved with specific denominational viewpoints.

Author : Alexandros Kampakoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110648744

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Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry by Alexandros Kampakoglou Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This monograph is the first book to offer a systematic examination of the evidence for the reception of Pindar in the works of Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidippus of Pella. Through a series of case studies, it argues that Pindaric poetry exercised a considerable influence on a variety of Hellenistic genres: epinician elegies and epigrams, hymns, encomia, and epic poetry. For the poets active at the courts of the first three Ptolemies, Pindar's poetry represented praise discourse in its most successful configuration. Imitating aspects of it, they lent their support to the ideological apparatus of Greco-Egyptian kingship, shaped the literary profile of Pindar for future generations of readers, and defined their own role and place in Greek literary history. The discussion offered in this book suggests new insights into aspects of literary tradition, Ptolemaic patronage, and Hellenistic poetics, placing Pindar's work at the very heart of an intricate nexus of political and poetic correspondences.

Author : Uzi Ben-Shalom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031515569

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Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era by Uzi Ben-Shalom Pdf

Author : José Martí
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853454953

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Our America by José Martí Pdf

Presents the celebrated Cuban revolutionary's thoughts on "Nuestra America," the Latin America Martí fought to make free.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691221250

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Juno's Aeneid by Joseph Farrell Pdf

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome’s emperor, Caesar Augustus. By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age.