Memory In A Time Of Prose

Author : Daniel D. Pioske
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190649869

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Memory in a Time of Prose by Daniel D. Pioske Pdf

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? Daniel D. Pioske attempts to answer this question by studying the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. This book is comprised of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set. Pioske examines the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and the past represented within the biblical narrative. He discovers that the knowledge available to the biblical scribes about this period derived predominantly from memory and word of mouth, rather than from a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance. Memory in a Time of Prose reveals how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten in the ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling.

Author : PIOSKE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190649887

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MEMORY IN A TIME OF PROSE. by PIOSKE. Pdf

Author : Daniel D. Pioske
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190649876

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Memory in a Time of Prose by Daniel D. Pioske Pdf

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? Daniel D. Pioske attempts to answer this question by studying the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. This book is comprised of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set. Pioske examines the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and the past represented within the biblical narrative. He discovers that the knowledge available to the biblical scribes about this period derived predominantly from memory and word of mouth, rather than from a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance. Memory in a Time of Prose reveals how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten in the ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling.

Author : Karin Tidbeck
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524748340

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The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck Pdf

From the award-winning author of Amatka and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical place where no one ages, except the young In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It’s a place where feasts never end, games of croquet have devastating consequences, and teenagers are punished for growing up. For a select group of masters, it’s a decadent paradise where time stands still. But for those who serve them, it’s a slow torture where their lives can be ended in a blink. In a bid to escape before their youth betrays them, Dora and Thistle—best friends and confidants—set out on a remarkable journey through time and space. Traveling between their world and ours, they hunt for the one person who can grant them freedom. Along the way, they encounter a mysterious traveler who trades in favors and never forgets debts, a crossroads at the center of the universe, our own world on the brink of war, and a traveling troupe of actors with the ability to unlock the fabric of reality. Endlessly inventive, The Memory Theater takes us to a wondrous place where destiny has yet to be written, life is a performance, and magic can erupt at any moment. It is Karin Tidbeck’s most engrossing and irresistible tale yet.

Author : Maria Stepanova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811228848

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In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova Pdf

An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

Author : Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1575910098

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Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts by Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat Pdf

Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.

Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520273047

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Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon’s foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish’s work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.

Author : Bernadette Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Memory
ISBN : UCSC:32106008868660

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Memory by Bernadette Mayer Pdf

Author : Cecilia Ruiz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407312

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The Book of Memory Gaps by Cecilia Ruiz Pdf

Simon remembers every act of sin ever confessed to him. Pavel forgets what he has just played and rehearses the same melody over and over. Unable to recall faces, Veronika uses different perfumes to remember the ones she loves. The Book of Memory Gaps is a collection of darkly humorous mini-stories that examine our curious and capricious unconscious. With concise, lyrical prose and a discerning command of color, Cecilia Ruiz captures the delicate and fleeting nature of memory, as well as its immense power–after all, who would we be without it?

Author : Henry H. Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Memory
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018727586

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The Art of Memory by Henry H. Fuller Pdf

Author : Philippe Grimbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416560005

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Memory by Philippe Grimbert Pdf

A runaway bestseller in Europe, "Memory" is a stunning combination of memoir and fiction. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths, Grimbert, a psychoanalyst, explores the secrets that dominated his parents lives, in this beautiful and gripping novel.

Author : David Baine
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877781923

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Memory and Instruction by David Baine Pdf

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439182857

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Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr Pdf

In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Author : David M. Carr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199883875

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Writing on the Tablet of the Heart by David M. Carr Pdf

This book explores a new model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on recent studies of the oral/written interface in medieval, Greco-Roman and ancinet Near Eastern contexts, David Carr argues that in ancient Israel Biblical texts and other texts emerged as a support for an educational process in which written and oral dimensions were integrally intertwined. The point was not incising and reading texts on parchment or papyrus. The point was to enculturate ancient Israelites - particularly Israelite elites - by training them to memorize and recite a wide range of traditional literature that was seen as the cultural bedorck of the people: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom.

Author : Dani Shapiro
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451494481

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Hourglass by Dani Shapiro Pdf

"Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become."