Summon Up Remembrance

Author : Marzieh Gail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015039756278

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Summon Up Remembrance by Marzieh Gail Pdf

The fascinating story of a pleasure-seeking Persian boy who became one of 'Abdu'l-Baha's leading English translators and united East and West in the first Persian-American Baha'i marriage. Here is the colourful story of Ali-Kuli Khan, the first to translate into English such important works as the 'Seven Valleys', the 'Kitab-i-Iqan', and the Glad-Tidings. Told by his daughter, herself a well-known author and translator, Khan's story is based on his memoirs and personal papers. Through them we are given a unique and detailed picture of life in Persia at the end of the century, complete with an explanation of that oft-met protocol 'ta'aruf'. We follow the young Khan, dressed as a dervish, on his adventurous walk to 'Akka and note his transformation from a frivolous youth to a skilled translator for 'Abdu'l-Baha. In his nearly two years as a member of 'Abdu'l-Baha's household, Khan both translated for those first groups of American pilgrims to visit the Holy Land and rendered 'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets into English. In 1901 Khan was sent to America to assist Mirza Abu'l-Fadl and to translate the great teacher's book, The Baha'i Proofs, into English. It was in America that Khan met and fell in love with a Boston society girl, Florence Breed. Their Victorian romance unfolds in the delicate love-letters written by Florence to Khan. Their marriage, the first between a Persian and an American Baha'i, not only symbolized but portrayed the unity between East and West taught by the Baha'i Faith. 'Summon Up Remembrance' is peopled with such familiar figures as Mirza Abu'l-Fadl, Laura Barney, Edward and Lua Getsinger, Mary Hanford Ford and the Atabak. But this is a book dedicated to 'Abdu'l-Baha, and it is His wisdom and teaching that characterizes it. A unique feature is the inclusion of the Tablet of Cremation revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha, here published for the first time in English in a new translation by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice. The story continues in Arches of the Years.

Author : Winifred Nowottny
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780567443267

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Language Poets Use by Winifred Nowottny Pdf

Mrs Nowottny's chief aim in this 'valuable book which could serve as a useful introduction to practical criticism' is to inquire what it is that makes the language of poetry poetic. The book grows out of the leading trends today in ideas about language and the way is works but to the maters discussed Mrs. Nowottny brings a keen mind of her won and considerable powers as a literary critic. Stressing the continuity of poetry with other uses of language she shows how under the control of the poet's purpose everyday language contributes to the achievement of the most complex and profound effects, and she illustrates these effects with a wealth of examples.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sonnets, English
ISBN : 8171567258

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Shakespeare's Sonnets by Sunil Kumar Sarker Pdf

Though Sonnets Are, Generally, Easy Poems, Shakespeare S Sonnets Are Not, And Very Naturally, He Being A Master-Mind, His Sonnets Are Far From Easy To Understand. The Principal Objective Of This Book Is To Explain The Sonnets For Common Readers, And To Discuss Some Very Topical Questions About Them. The Author Persistently Kept In Mind The Difficulties Of General Readers In Understanding The Sonnets, And So He Meticulously Avoided Pedantry. The Book May Be Deemed To Be Divided Into Two Parts : The First Part Discusses Some Very Important General Topics Relating To The Sonnets; And The Second Part Devotes Itself Entirely To Explaining, Line By Line, The Sonnets, Keeping Close To The Themes Of Them. Difficult Words And Concepts Have Been Carefully Explained. The Texts Of All The 154 Sonnets Have Been Given For The Benefit Of Readers.

Author : Sir William Osler
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical ethics
ISBN : 0822326825

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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations by Sir William Osler Pdf

Collection of addresses given by Sir William Osler (1849-1919), esteemed physician and professor, on the way of life for the ethical physician.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107512146

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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt Pdf

This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

Author : Tom Furniss,Michael Bath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317867463

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Reading Poetry by Tom Furniss,Michael Bath Pdf

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing. This new edition includes a new chapter on ‘Post-colonial Poetry’, a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence – and to make it fun!

Author : Michael Stephen Silk,Michael S. Silk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521024609

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Interaction in Poetic Imagery by Michael Stephen Silk,Michael S. Silk Pdf

This book should be of interest to classicists and to specialists in literary theory in departments of English, Linguistics and Comparative Literature.

Author : Warren S. Poland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351598958

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Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis by Warren S. Poland Pdf

Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite eye on this paradox, resisting individual or intersubjective bias and avoiding the parochial allegiances common in our age of pluralism. Poland combines vivid reports from clinical analyses, literary readings, and his own life – all unfolding original observations on a person as both a part of and apart from human commonality. His consideration of how one person’s witnessing facilitates another’s self-definition, a concept extended here in his study of outsiderness as part of human nature, has been marked a keynote contribution. Clinical illustrations of moments that matter but are usually omitted from public presentation are set alongside examples of reading powerful fiction to show how analyst and author both incite fresh openness in a person’s mind. Poland goes farther, exposing the personal power of union and separateness in its keenest form, facing the ultimate separation of one’s own actual death. Only with separateness can true intimacy grow, and only within the fabric of others can true individuality exist. This evocative book, ranging from the lightness of whimsy to the dread of dying, allows every reader to taste of and learn from Poland’s thinking. Psychoanalyst or patient, writer or reader, each one living one’s own life – all can find new understandings in this work.

Author : Constance Fenimore Woolson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0472030086

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Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson Pdf

A unique but little-known woman writer offers a powerful voice from the nineteenth-century Great Lakes frontier

Author : Joan Myers Weimer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813588469

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Women Artists, Women Exiles by Joan Myers Weimer Pdf

This anthology contains nine stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) that dramatize the dilemmas and strategies of the first generation of American women writers to see themselves as artists. As the great-niece of James Fenimore Cooper and the intimate friend of Henry James, Woolson was acutely conscious of her situation as a woman writer. Her stories offer answers to her own urgent questions: "Why do literary women break down so?" At the same time, they demonstrate that women's struggles with patriarchal culture and with their own womanhood could be a source of distunctive female art. Woolson's early stories are witty and incisive critiques of those conventions of literary Romanticism that encode women's marginality. Set in the wilderness that surrounded the Great Lakes, these stories revise male literary texts to clear a space where women's voices can be heard. In a group of stories set in the post-Civil War south, women artists are shown as exiles both away from their homes and from themselves. One superb tale, "Felipa," pairs a repressed woman artist with a wild child who rejects both patriarchal religion and approved heterosexual behavior. Woolson here explores the possibility of a collaboration between female wildness and female form of control. Stories written during Woolson's years in Europe confront woman artists with successful male writers and critics who resemble Henry James. These carefully crafted stories reflect James's mixed impact on women artists: as a model literary realist and as a subtle denigrator of women's talent. Joan Weimar's introduction uses unpublished letters to reconstruct and interpret Wool's life and her probable suicide. It places Woolson in the male and female literary traditions of her time and offers extended analysis of the stories.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674637122

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler Pdf

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110805390

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Linguistic Structures in Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195126653

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The Symphony by Michael Steinberg Pdf

A guide to the symphony, with commentary on 118 works by 36 composers.

Author : Gennaro Saragnano,Christian Seulin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916878

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On Freud's On Beginning the Treatment by Gennaro Saragnano,Christian Seulin Pdf

Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay "On beginning the treatment" had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and worldwide-accepted conceptual basis on how to initiate psychoanalytic treatments. After a century of clinical experience and theoretical research, are all of Freud's rules and advice still valid today? The authors have asked ten eminent analysts to comment upon this seminal paper of Freud's, each of them focusing on one of the fundamental issues originally propounded by the "father of psychoanalysis". The result is an overall and careful view on the actuality of the technical bases of analysis, in what can be considered a good introduction to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Author : Bill Goldstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408894576

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The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein Pdf

A revelatory narrative charting the lives and works of legendary authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism 'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, 1922 began with a frighteningly blank page. Eliot was in Switzerland recovering from a nervous breakdown. Forster was grappling with unrequited love. Woolf and Lawrence, meanwhile, were both in bed with the flu. Confronting illness, personal problems and the spectral ghost of World War I, all four felt literally at a loss for words. As dismal as things seemed, 1922 turned out to be a year of outstanding creative renaissance for them all. By the end of the year Woolf had started Mrs Dalloway, Forster had returned to work on A Passage to India, Lawrence had written his heavily autobiographical novel Kangaroo, and Eliot had finished – and published to great acclaim – 'The Waste Land'. Full of surprising insights and original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in Two chronicles the intertwined lives and works of these four writers in a crucial year of change.