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Speak, Silence

Author : Kim Echlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735240629

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WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARD From the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all. It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian war—and to reconnect with the love of her life. But when they are reunited, she finds a man, and a country, altered beyond recognition. Kosmos introduces Gota to Edina, the woman he has always loved. While Gota treads the precarious terrain of her evolving connection to Kosmos, she and Edina forge an unexpected bond. A lawyer and a force to be reckoned with, Edina exposes the sexual violence that she and thousands of others survived in the war. Before long, Gota finds her life entwined with the community of women and travels with them to The Hague to confront their abusers. The events she covers—and the stories she hears—will change her life forever. Written in Kim Echlin’s masterfully luminescent prose, Speak, Silence weaves together the experiences of a resilient sisterhood and tells the story of the real-life trial that would come to shape history. In a heart-wrenching tale of suffering and loss and a beautiful illustration of power and love, Echlin explores what it means to speak out against the very people who would do anything to silence you.

Speaking of Silence in Heidegger

Author : Wanda Torres Gregory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793640048

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Speaking of Silence in Heidegger by Wanda Torres Gregory Pdf

In Speaking of Silence in Heidegger, Wanda Torres Gregory critically analyzes Heidegger’sthoughts on silence. Arguing that silence about silence is a guiding principle in his sparse and often reticent words, Torres Gregory sets out to decipher their elusive meanings. Charting the trajectory of Heidegger’s reflections, from Being and Time to On the Way to Language, she shows that he develops his ideas of silence in increasingly closer relations to his also evolving ideas of truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Torres Gregory distinguishes between human, primordial, and primeval forms of silence, and the linguistic, pre-linguistic, and proto-linguistic levels at which silence can occur in relation to sonorous speech. While the book focuses on these inner conceptual dynamics, the author remains mindful of Heidegger’s ties to National Socialism and clarifies how his theoretical assumptions allow for oppressive silencing. The book concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger’s thinking of silence and proposes alternatives to his claims concerning the sound beyond sounds, the metaphysics of mystical silence, the uniquely linguistic essence of the mortals, and the loud idle talk in the age of modern technology.

Speaking of Silence

Author : Naropa Institute
Publisher : New York : Paulist Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001293185

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Papers originally presented at Naropa Institute conferences. Bibliography: p. 319-327.

Between Speaking and Silence

Author : Mary M. Reda
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791493717

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Between Speaking and Silence by Mary M. Reda Pdf

Why are students silent? Using written reflections and interviews, Mary M. Reda examines students' perceptions of speaking and being silent in a first-year composition classroom, and explores how their teachers, classroom relationships, and their own sense of identity shape their decisions to speak or be silent. By challenging many firmly held beliefs about those quiet students in the back of the classroom, Between Speaking and Silence offers the new vision that silence is not necessarily problematic.

A Book of Silence

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Loneliness
ISBN : 9781847081513

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A deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.

A History of Silence

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509517398

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Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual. This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.

Speak, Silence

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526634788

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Speak, Silence by Carole Angier Pdf

A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait.

Speaking to Silence

Author : Janet S. Peterman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664228804

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Janet Peterman presents a variety of healing and comforting rituals that can be used in situations that are likely to be encountered in congregations but yet are not typically treated in standard liturgies. Peterman offers her reflections on the significance of rituals and includes a broad spectrum of rituals for personal use, for life in the home or at church, for use in the wider community, or for help in leading to transformation. She concludes by describing a seven-step process for creating new rituals and suggests ways to adapt existing worship materials for use in new settings. This much-needed resource will help pastors and lay leaders develop their own skills and insights for creating liturgies and rituals that provide relief, healing, and support for those in congregations who are faced with critical and life-altering situations.

Speech and Silence in American Law

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139487733

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Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are: who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.

Culture and Value

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Felsefe
ISBN : 9780631205715

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Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler Pdf

Foreword to the Edition of 1977 Foreword to the 1994 Edition Editorial Note Note by Translator Culture and Value A Poem Notes Appendix:List of Sources List of Sources, Arranged Alphanumerically Index of Beginnings of Remarks Subject Index Index of Names.

Obasan

Author : Joy Kogawa
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735233904

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Winner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

Unspeakable

Author : Harriet Shawcross
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786890061

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Unspeakable by Harriet Shawcross Pdf

'Compassionate' Guardian 'Extremely affecting' Scotsman As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

Purpose in Silence

Author : Tyrone Brown,Lyndon Brown
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1973655667

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Purpose in Silence by Tyrone Brown,Lyndon Brown Pdf

Purpose in Silence is a collection of poetry and devotional writings of two young men who are nonverbal, yet have a voice through their writings. Motor impairment and clubfeet have caused much frustration and pain in their young lives, but through these experiences, the Lord has given them a deep understanding of his purpose for them and an ability to encourage others passing through trials. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is where their strength is found, and it is the basis for much of their poetry. It is their heartfelt desire that their writings will bring honor to their Savior and a blessing to all those who read their words.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0995716226

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

He Speaks in the Silence

Author : Diane Comer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310341789

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He Speaks in the Silence by Diane Comer Pdf

He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.