On This And Other Worlds

Author : Teffi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375403

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Other Worlds by Teffi Pdf

Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.

Author : Kristine Stenzel,Bruna Franchetto
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961100194

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On this and other worlds by Kristine Stenzel,Bruna Franchetto Pdf

This edited volume offers a collection of twelve interlinear texts reflecting the vast linguistic diversity of Amazonia as well as the rich verbal arts and oral literature traditions of Amazonian peoples. Contributions to the volume come from a variety of geographic regions and represent the Carib, Jê, Tupi, East Tukano, Nadahup, and Pano language families, as well as three linguistic isolates. The selected texts exemplify a variety of narrative styles recounting the origins of constellations, crops, and sacred cemeteries, and of travel to worlds beyond death. We hear tales of tricksters and of encounters between humans and other beings, learn of battles between enemies, and gain insight into history and the indigenous perspective of creation, cordiality and confrontation. The contributions to this volume are the result of research efforts conducted since 2000, and as such, exemplify rapidly expanding investment and interest in documenting native Amazonian voices. They moreover demonstrate the collaborative efforts of linguists, anthropologists, and indigenous leaders, storytellers, and researchers to study and preserve Amazonian languages and cultures. Each chapter offers complete interlinear analysis as well as ample commentary on both linguistic and cultural aspects, appealing to a wide audience, including linguists, historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists. This collection is the first of its type, constituting a significant contribution to focused study of Amazonian linguistic diversity and a relevant addition to our broader knowledge of Amerindian languages and cosmologies.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385533973

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In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.

Author : Christopher G. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674984295

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Other Worlds by Christopher G. White Pdf

Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062565808

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Of Other Worlds by C. S. Lewis Pdf

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s treasury of essays and stories which examine the value of creative writing and imaginative exploration. C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—presents a well-reasoned case for the importance of story and wonder, elements often ignored by critics of his time. He also discusses his favorite kinds of stories—children’s stories and fantasies—and offers insights into his most famous works, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy.

Author : John Jacob Astor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734063619

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A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor

Author : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135070816

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In Other Worlds by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Pdf

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies – deconstruction, Marxism and feminism – Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

Author : Charlotte Hardman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000323870

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Other Worlds by Charlotte Hardman Pdf

This important ethnographic study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe of about 3,000 members living in Eastern Nepal. These rice farmers have a tradition of migration combined with hunting and gathering. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the daily lives and rituals of the Lohorung. It explores the ‘other world' of the Lohorung within which their concepts about the nature of the person and the natural world can be understood.This study will be relevant not only to Himalayan experts but to all anthropologists interested in culture, self and emotion.

Author : Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664628305

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Other Worlds by Garrett Putman Serviss Pdf

"Other Worlds: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries" by Garrett Putman Serviss has as its thesis, an exploration of human interest in the other worlds around us. This book was part of the cutting edge of astronomy at the time it was written. It presents the discoveries among the planets of the solar system and shows their bearing upon the question of life on those planets. It points out the resemblances and the differences between the earth and the other worlds that share with it in the light of the sun. It shows what would be seen and experienced if humans could visit those worlds.

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597804349

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Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams Pdf

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such "other worlds"--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.

Author : Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048285001

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People from the Other World by Henry Steel Olcott Pdf

Author : Kristin Cashore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 015206396X

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Graceling by Kristin Cashore Pdf

Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore A New York Times bestseller ALA Best Book for Young Adults Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year "Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns" (The New York Times Book Review) with "a knee weakening romance" (LA Times). Graceling is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure that will resonate deeply with anyone trying to find their way in the world. Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in the Seven Kingdoms where selected people are born with a Grace, a special talent that can be anything at all. Katsa's Grace is killing. As the king's niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his brutal enforcer. Until the day she meets Prince Po, who is Graced with combat skills, and Katsa's life begins to change. She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. And don't miss the sequel Fire and companion Bitterblue, both award-winning, New York Times bestsellers, and full of Kristin Cashore's elegant, evocative prose and unforgettable characters.

Author : Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351108898

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Wilde’s Other Worlds by Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun Pdf

Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds—both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual—which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity. Wilde had an unlimited curiosity and a cosmopolitan spirit of inquiry that traveled widely across borders, ranging freely over space and time. He entered easily and wholly into other countries, other cultures, other national literatures, other periods, other mythologies, other religions, other disciplines, and other modes of representation, and was able to fully inhabit and navigate them, quickly apprehending the conventions by which they operate. The fourteen essays in this volume offer fresh critical-theoretical and historical perspectives not just on key connections and aspects of Wilde’s oeuvre itself, but on the development of Wilde’s remarkable worldliness in dialogue with many other worlds: contemporary developments in art, science and culture, as well as with other national literatures and cultures. Perhaps as a direct result of this cosmopolitan spirit, Wilde and Wilde’s works have been taken up across the globe, as the essays on Wilde’s reception in India, Japan and Hollywood illustrate. Many of the essays gathered here are based on groundbreaking archival research, including some never-seen-before illustrations. Together, they have the potential to open up important new comparative, transnational, and historical perspectives on Wilde that can shape and sharpen our future understanding of his work and impact.

Author : P. C. W. Davies,Paul Davies
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0140138773

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Other Worlds by P. C. W. Davies,Paul Davies Pdf

Paul Davies explains the significance of the amazing quantum universe, where fact is stranger than any science fiction. He takes us into a world where commonsense notions of space, time, and causality must be left behind as the realm of solid matter dissolves into vibrating patterns of ghostly energy, and where mind and matter are interwoven in a subtle and holistic manner. An Australian physicist and author of GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS, Davies writes for the lay reader in simple language.

Author : A.A. Attanasio
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473207998

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In Other Worlds by A.A. Attanasio Pdf

One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously combusts! His body transforms into light, mysteriously snatched from his banal life by an alien intelligence 130 billion years in the future. There, all spacetime is collapsing into a cosmic black hole, the Big Crunch - and a bold, cosmic destiny awaits Carl. Rebuilt from the remnants of his light by extraterrestrials for a cryptic purpose, he awakens in time's last world, the strangest of all - the Werld. At the edge of infinity, Carl discovers the Foke, nomadic humans who travel among the floating islands of the Werld. The Foke teach him how to live - and love - at the end of time, and he loses his heart to his plucky guide, the beautiful Evoë. Their life together in this blissful kingdom that knows no aging or disease brings them to rapture - until Evoë falls prey to the zotl, a spidery intelligence who hunt the Foke and eat the chemical by-products of their pain. In order to save his beloved from a gruesome death, Carl must return to Earth - 130 billion years earlier - where he is shocked to discover that the Earth he's come back to is not the one he left. Can he meet the harsh demands of his task before the zotl find him and begin ravishing the Earth? Author's Note: The volumes of this series can each be read independently of the others. The feature that unifies them is their individual observations of science fiction's sub-genre: "space opera," which the editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes."