Portents And Oddities

Author : Gwen DeMarco
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798788577036

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Portents and Oddities by Gwen DeMarco Pdf

After defeating a Fae fanatic set on closing the portal between earth and the magic realm, things are looking up for Sophie Feegle. She can finally relax, drink whiskey at her favorite ogre pub, and get back to the autopsy assistant job she loves. Maybe she'll even go on a romantic date with a certain sexy fox shifter. Yeah, right. Things never seem to work out quite the way Sophie wants. When Sophie recognizes the body on her autopsy table from a dream, her world is shaken again. As more bodies end up in the morgue, Sophie realizes a serial killer is hunting San Francisco's Mythicals. But why? And why does Sophie see the victims in her dreams? Hot on the trail of the killer, Sophie and her crew encounter Mythicals with strange powers. But as they wade through these dangerous waters, the question becomes: are Sophie and her friends the hunters, or are they the ones being hunted? Welcome back to Sophie's San Francisco, where being in a serial killer's sights may be new but being odd is still the norm.

Author : Frederick E. Brenk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327658

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In Mist Apparelled by Frederick E. Brenk Pdf

Author : London Fell
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647507015

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The Painter’s Dream Machine by London Fell Pdf

This novel of the trilogy finds Claudette Monet, having traveled from New York City to Boston. Boston was known to her as the premier American center for elite institutions of all kinds. It is here in Boston that Claudette invents and proves The Painter’s Dream Machine with her painterly novelesque fantasmagoria and short painterly dreams. Readers can imagine for themselves what all the people in this trilogy looked like.

Author : Tara Williams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271081786

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Middle English Marvels by Tara Williams Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and hagiography. In Middle English Marvels, Tara Williams explores the didactic and affective potential of secular representations of magic and shows how fourteenth-century English writers tested the limits of that potential. Drawing on works by Augustine, Gervase of Tilbury, Chaucer, and the anonymous poets of Sir Orfeo and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, among others, Williams examines how such marvels might convey moral messages within and beyond the narrative. She analyzes examples from both highly canonical and more esoteric texts and examines marvels that involve magic and transformation, invoke visual spectacle, and invite moral reflection on how one should relate to others. Within this shared framework, Williams finds distinct concerns—chivalry, identity, agency, and language—that intersect with the marvelous in significant ways. Integrating literary and historical approaches to the study of magic, this volume convincingly shows how certain fourteenth-century texts eschewed the predominant trends and developed a new theory of the marvelous. Williams’s engaging, erudite study will be of special interest to scholars of the occult, the medieval and early modern eras, and literature.

Author : David Pilgrim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Abnormalities, Human
ISBN : IND:39000001159628

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Human Oddities by David Pilgrim Pdf

Author : Östasiatiska museet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015042448368

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Bulletin by Östasiatiska museet Pdf

Author : Mark Sandle,William Van Arragon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498299992

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Re-Forming History by Mark Sandle,William Van Arragon Pdf

Does the discipline of history need a reformation? How should Christian faith shape the ways historians do their work? This book, written for students, considers the "how" of doing history. The authors first examine the current "liturgies" of the historical profession and suggest that the discipline is in crisis. They argue for "re-formed" Christian practices and methodologies for history. The book asks important questions: why do we do history, and for whom? How should faith shape how we do our research and tell stories? What do we owe the dead? How should Christian historians practice "dangerous memory"? And how can Christian historians do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God? How might we rethink, reform, renew, reimagine, and re-practice the study of the past? Christian historians must be sentinels of hope against the world's forgetfulness, the authors argue, and this book offers some pathways for rethinking our practices from a Christian perspective.

Author : Sarah Schneewind
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170999

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Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos by Sarah Schneewind Pdf

"""Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos"", the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal, old, and justified by readings of the classics.Sarah Schneewind argues that the institution could invite and pressure officials to serve local interests; the policies that had earned a man commemoration were carved into stone beside the shrine. Since everyone recognized that elite men might honor living officials just to further their own careers, premortem shrine rhetoric stressed the role of commoners, who embraced the opportunity by initiating many living shrines. This legitimate, institutionalized political voice for commoners expands a scholarly understanding of “public opinion” in late imperial China, aligning it with the efficacy of deities to create a nascent political conception Schneewind calls the “minor Mandate of Heaven.” Her exploration of premortem shrine theory and practice illuminates Ming thought and politics, including the Donglin Party’s battle with eunuch dictator Wei Zhongxian and Gu Yanwu’s theories."

Author : Shayna Sheinfeld,Juni Hoppe,Kathy Ehrensperger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978714564

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Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity by Shayna Sheinfeld,Juni Hoppe,Kathy Ehrensperger Pdf

This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.

Author : Helen Reilly
Publisher : St. Swithin Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927551264

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Name Your Poison by Helen Reilly Pdf

As McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion...stuffed in a trunk. "Svelte story...The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's] smooth, romantic manner always pleases."--Kirkus Reviews "The best Inspector McKee mystery yet! Highly emotional, intricately plotted, and tough to guess."--The New York Herald "Verdict: Satisfying"--The Saturday Review From the cover: - An unwelcome box of orange blossoms...a syllable uttered by a dying woman...A leopard-skin coat worn by a messenger of death...a pearl button in a tiny pool of melted snow... A nearly empty coca-cola bottle...A blue wool thread at the bottom of a flight of stairs...A series of cork-tipped Egyptian cigarettes...A snatch of music between the gusts of a snowstorm... A golden box with very deadly contents - A shabby old trunk with very dead contents...a telephone call from a murderer...A single galosh half buried in the snow...A blank sheet of paper showing some curious embossings...a spent bullet in the fold of a shirt... Wouldn't You Like To Know-- - Why Mouse was crying dreadfully in the night? - Who sent her the box of orange blossoms? - What was on the card she tore up and burned? - What caused the peculiar gathering of forces at the Biltmore? - What was behind the four mysterious and meaningless deaths by poison? - What caused the dark fear which gnawed at Julie? - Who was in the living-room when Julie listened at the door? - What Rosetta Westing was doing in Brian's garage? - Why the elegant Conroy was stopping at a shabby roadhouse in Easton? - Who tried to climb in Julie's window? - What was the significance of Julie's sinister dream? You will learn the answers to these questions in the unfolding of one of the grimmest and most perplexing manhunts in Inspector McKee's spectacular career.

Author : William Thomas Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005378240

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A History of Western Philosophy: The medieval mind by William Thomas Jones Pdf

Author : William Thomas Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : UOM:39015005628915

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The Medieval Mind by William Thomas Jones Pdf

A three-volume set of the history of Western philosophy, from pre-Socratic philosophy through David Hume.

Author : Emma Buckley,Martin Dinter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118316535

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A Companion to the Neronian Age by Emma Buckley,Martin Dinter Pdf

An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent years Makes much important research available in English for the first time Features a balance of new research with established critical lines Offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies Includes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voices Includes detailed maps and illustrations

Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
Page : 2308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780715335291

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Writer's Market 2010 by Caroline Taggart Pdf

THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED Written by writers for writers and backed by 89 years of authority, Writer's Market is the #1 resource for helping writers sell their work. Used by both seasoned professionals and writers new to the publishing world, Writer's Market has helped countless writers transform their love of writing from a hobby into a career. Nowhere else but in the 2010 Writer's Market will you find the most comprehensive and reliable information you need. This new edition includes: Complete, up-to-date contact information and submission guidelines for more than 3,500 market listings, including literary agents, book publishers, magazines, newspapers, production companies, theaters, greeting card companies, and more. Informative interviews, helpful tips and instructional articles on the business of writing. The "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate charts for professional freelancers. Sample good and bad queries in the "Query Letter Clinic." Easy-to-use format and tabbed pages so you can quickly locate the information you need!

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319720111

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Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade by Brendan Moran Pdf

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin’s writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin’s related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin’s writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from – its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about – established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin’s writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin’s writings on Kafka to Benjamin’s writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin’s messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature.