Samuel Johnson S Eternal Return

Author : Martin Riker
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895361

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Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return by Martin Riker Pdf

A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.

Author : Bradford Morrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497637399

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Exile by Bradford Morrow Pdf

New writings on defectors and deportees, migrants and refugees, and the feeling of being far from home. From the moment homes and homelands came into being, exile ensued. While narratives of exile share themes of banishment, loss and longing, they are as diverse as the human experience itself. Writers as different as Homer and Heinlein, Aeschylus and Camus addressed this subject. In The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie conceives of exile as “a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back.” Its permutations know no bounds. The political dissident deported, or jailed, under house arrest; the defected spy; the classic prince banished by his royal father from the city gates; the communal exile of the diaspora. Through cutting-edge fiction, poetry and essays by emerging voices and contemporary masters, Conjunctions: 62, Exile explores the ramifications of expulsion and ostracism. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Peter Straub, Can Xue, H.G. Carrillo, Ales Steger, Maxine Chernoff and others.

Author : Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838620590

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The Other Samuel Johnson by Peter N. Carroll Pdf

Examines the life of the American Samuel Johnson, the first president of King's College, forerunner of Columbia College. In tracing Johnson's long career from his Puritan origins through his remarkable conversion to the Church of England, the author introduces the theories of psychohistory, an approach that is concerned with both individual psychology and more general cultural patterns.

Author : Ben Bradley,Fred Feldman,Jens Johansson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190271459

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death by Ben Bradley,Fred Feldman,Jens Johansson Pdf

Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics, and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004813822

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002419046

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019790294

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Jacob Fuchs
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838751482

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Reading Pope's Imitations of Horace by Jacob Fuchs Pdf

This study reclaims Pope's meaning in each successive imitation by focusing on the differences between Horace's Latin poems and Pope's English versions. It considers not only Pope's expression of concerns about his own world but also the contemporary reputation of the Roman Augustan Age and of Augustus and Horace.

Author : William S. Haney,Peter Malekin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 083875497X

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Humanism and the Humanities in the Twenty-first Century by William S. Haney,Peter Malekin Pdf

The book raises questions about the underlying paradigms of contemporary learning and social thinking, including the nature of consciousness and the mind, the purpose and conduct of eduation, the role of science and scientific methodologies, the place of art and literature, or relationship to the environment, our concepts of spirituality, our attitudes to the past and also what we are doing to our own future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004400061

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Aphoristic Modernity by Anonim Pdf

The collected essays of Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present showcase aphoristic and epigrammatic writing as both a reflection of, and influence upon, the fragmented culture of modernity from the late nineteenth- to the twenty-first century.

Author : Christoph Henke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110343403

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Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture by Christoph Henke Pdf

While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Author : William Huntting Howell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247039

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Against Self-Reliance by William Huntting Howell Pdf

Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and connection to a complex whole over ambition, individuality, and distinction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401204514

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The Littoral Zone by Anonim Pdf

In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment—rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There’s the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that ‘appropriates’ Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can “persuade us to rejoice” in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where “the mountains meet the sea”; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its ‘timeless’ icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of ‘Australia’.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195361858

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Conversations with Nietzsche by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Rée, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important for his conversations than for his letters. In Conversations with Nietzsche, Sander Gilman and David Parent present a fascinating selection of eighty-seven memoirs, anecdotes, and informal recollections by friends and acquaintances of Nietzsche. Translated from the definitive German collection, Begegnungen mit Nietzsche, these biographical pieces--some of which have never before appeared in English--cover the entire span of Nietzsche's life: his boyhood friendships, his arrival at the University of Bonn, his appointment to professor at Basel at age twenty-four, the impact of The Birth of Tragedy, his friendship with Wagner, his life in Italy, his confinement at the Jena Sanatorium, and his death. They present the philosopher in dialogue with friends and acquaintances, and provide new insights into him as a thinker and as a commentator on his times, recounting his views on some of the greats of history, including Burckhardt, Goethe, Kant, Dostoevsky, Napoleon, and numerous others. In his selections, Gilman has carefully balanced documents concerning Nietzsche's personal life with others on his intellectual development, resulting in an entertaining and informative book that will appeal to a wide audience of educated readers.

Author : Thomas Simmons
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1433108720

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Imperial Affliction by Thomas Simmons Pdf

«In many ways», Robert J.C. Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. How might these «seeds of destruction» manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with greatest access to self-affirmation - the idea of the empire, the idea of British citizenry, the idea of the British self - actually find themselves vulnerable, confused, or damaged? Using multiple forms of postcolonial critique, this book turns back to salient eighteenth-century British lives and work for a different kind of enlightenment. Among its central subjects are the elusive subjectivity of William Collins; the exilic religious experience of William Cowper and its multiple readings in the twentieth century by a self-fashioned exilic, Donald Davie; the «missed encounter» between Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson, and the ways in which that problem was re-inscribed in the work of W. Jackson Bate and Lionel Trilling; the problem of imperial fixity in James Cook's journals with a view to Gray's «Elegy» and Goldsmith's «Deserted Village»; and the problem of purity as a paradoxically privileged and exilic force in the work of John Newton and Christopher Smart. In these explorations, this book illustrates both an expanded view of eighteenth-century colonial liabilities and a new emphasis on postcolonial critique as a means of exploring the fissures always present in imperial ambition.