Ironic Sacrifice

Author : Brooklyn Ann
Publisher : Broken Angels
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ironic Sacrifice by Brooklyn Ann Pdf

Jayden Leigh wants to commit suicide. Her clairvoyant powers have become so intense that she lost her job and home. Death is the only way to make them stop. Opportunity presents itself when she comes across a sinfully handsome vampire ready to make a kill. Jayden begs for him to take her instead. A blissful death in his arms, or the visions ravaging her mind? She'd gladly take the vampire. Razvan Nicolae is captivated and amused by the beautiful seeress who sacrifices herself for a stranger. Killing such a pleasing asset doesn’t interest him. If he could get her powers under control, she just might be the key to finding his missing twin. Controlling her visions and working for a seductive vampire? Razvan’s offer is like a dream come true. But her dream turns into a nightmare when a mad vampire cult leader seeks to exploit Jayden’s powers to stop an ancient prophecy. As Jayden finds herself at the center of a vampire war, she realizes that the biggest threat isn’t losing her life, it’s losing her heart. "A great plot and great character interaction. New characters are introduced along with the characters from Wrenching Fate. This paranormal romance is full of excitement and tension which keeps sucking you further into the story." All Things Book Reviews "Vampires with souls, humans with power, a writer with style that makes you crave more!" -Cinfully Wonderful Book Reviews "An action-filled vampire romance full of twists and turns." -Shona Husk- Author of The Court of Anwyn Series.

Author : Philip Vellacott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521205905

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Ironic Drama by Philip Vellacott Pdf

Author : Morton Gurewitch
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325130

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The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination by Morton Gurewitch Pdf

The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. The book focuses on ironic comedy, though not of the kind that is characterized by the surprises and shocks, the incongruities and reversals, of circumstantial irony. Circumstantial—or situational—irony cannot stand alone; it serves, for example, the aggressive functions of satire, or the irrational impulses of farce, or the benevolent, whimsical, or pain-defeating energies of humor.

Author : Kalypso Nicolaidis
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783528103

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Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice by Kalypso Nicolaidis Pdf

Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice offers a very different take on Brexit to those found in most news segments or opinion pieces. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, examines Britain's relationship with the EU through the lens of Greek mythology, using three key archetypes to analyse the differing visions of the world that have clashed so dramatically over this issue. 'Exodus' makes Brexit a story about British exceptionalism; both a British problem and a testimony to the EU’s incapacity to accommodate exceptions. 'Reckoning' brings the story back to the EU’s shores, with Brexit a harbinger of terrible truths which we lump together under the easy label of euroscepticism. And 'Sacrifice' contends with the ironic possibility that after and perhaps because of Brexit, the EU will live up to the pluralist ideals that define both the best of Britain and the best of Europe. Ultimately, the book contains a plea for acknowledging each other’s stories, with their many variants, ambiguities and contradictions. And in this spirit of recognition, it calls for a mutually respectful, do-no-harm Brexit – the smarter, kinder and gentler Brexit possible in our hard-edged epoch of resentment and frustration.

Author : Robert L. Perkins
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780881461602

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The Moment and Late Writings by Robert L. Perkins Pdf

On 18 December 1854 Kierkegaard began to publish a series of newspaper articles critical of the Danish state church. This book views these writings not only in the context of the theological, philosophical, and social events of that time but also the 2005-2006 Danish cartoon controversy.

Author : Gregory K. Beale
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433563317

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Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom by Gregory K. Beale Pdf

“But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” –Matthew 19:30 The Bible is full of ironic situations in which God overturns the world’s wisdom by doing the opposite of what is expected—people are punished by their own sin, the persecution of the church is the catalyst for its growth, Paul claims to have strength through weakness, and more. In this book, biblical scholar G. K. Beale explores God’s pattern of divine irony in both judgment and salvation, finding its greatest expression in Jesus’s triumph over death through death on a cross. Unpacking this pattern throughout redemptive history, Beale shows us how God often uses what is seemingly weak and foolish to underscore his own strength and power in the lives of his people today.

Author : Costica Bradatan,Camil Constantin Ungureanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317385677

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Cinema and Sacrifice by Costica Bradatan,Camil Constantin Ungureanu Pdf

Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The contributors to this volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.

Author : Paolo Diego Bubbio
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438452517

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Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition by Paolo Diego Bubbio Pdf

An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche. In this book, Paolo Diego Bubbio offers an alternative to standard philosophical accounts of the notion of sacrifice, which generally begin with the hermeneutic and postmodern traditions of the twentieth century, starting instead with the post-Kantian tradition of the nineteenth century. He restructures the historical development of the concept of sacrifice through a study of Kant, Solger, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, and shows how each is indebted to Kant and has more in common with him than is generally acknowledged. Bubbio argues that although Kant sought to free philosophical thought from religious foundations, he did not thereby render the role of religious claims philosophically useless. This makes it possible to consider sacrifice as a regulative and symbolic notion, and leads to an unorthodox idea of sacrifice: not the destruction of something for the sake of something else, but rather a kenotic emptying, conceived as a withdrawal or a “making room” for others.

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801480914

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Anxiety Veiled by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Pdf

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137477453

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The Poetics of Otherness by J. Hart Pdf

Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536333

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Irony in the Bible by Anonim Pdf

It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134937547

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Irony's Edge by Linda Hutcheon Pdf

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

Author : Betty Jean Craige
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813185996

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Lorca's Poet in New York by Betty Jean Craige Pdf

Written in 1929–1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"—an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York. Craige here describes—through close analysis of the structure, style, and themes of individual works in Poet in New York—the chaos into which this world plunges the poet, and the process whereby he is able, gradually, to recover his identity with the regenerative forces of nature. Her study demonstrates that, though seemingly unique in form and motifs, Poet in New York is integral with Lorca's overall poetic achievement.

Author : Ian McAdam
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874136652

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The Irony of Identity by Ian McAdam Pdf

Engaging the theories of Heinz Kohut on the individual's struggle for "manliness" and personal wholeness, McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilization in Marlowe's life and work - his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his ambivalence toward his homosexuality - clarify the plays' interest in the struggle for self-authorization. The author posits a post-Freudian argument in favor of pre-Oedipal narcissistic pathology in Marlowe's plays, in contrast to Kuriyama's psychoanalytic study, Hammer or Anvil, which is Freudian in approach and concerned with Oedipal patterns.

Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000377019

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Isn't it Ironic? by Ian Kinane Pdf

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic? How do we accurately decode works of popular film, literature, television, music, and other cultural forms which sell themselves as bitingly ironic commentaries on current society, but which are also problematic celebrations of the very issues they purport to critique? And what happens when texts intended and received in one manner are themselves ironically recontextualised in another? Bringing together studies across a range of cultural texts including popular music, film and television, Isn’t it Ironic? will appeal to scholars of the social sciences and humanities with interests in cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literary studies and sociology.