The Eternal Footman

Author : James Morrow
Publisher : HMH
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544390447

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Can civilization survive the untimely demise of God? “A buoyant romp . . . superlatively intelligent and entertaining” (The Baltimore Sun). Completing the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which God’s skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of “death awareness” spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty, who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe’s stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. And a chilling villain in the person of Dr. Adrian Lucido—founder of a new pagan church in Mexico, and inventor of a cure worse than any disease . . . “Morrow hilariously joins the ranks of the great satirists.” —The Denver Post “[An] insanely ingenious plot, reminiscent, variously, of B-science-fiction movies in the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, and Terry Southern at his most charmingly deranged.” —Kirkus Reviews “Any novel that springs from a sparkling intellect rather than a dreary neurosis is cause for celebration, and The Eternal Footman, with its load of truth and laughter, justifies a considerable quantity of champagne.” —Tom Robbins, New York Times–bestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Author : Keith F. Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : IOWA:31858004963280

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Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571256260

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Let Us Go Then, You and I by T. S. Eliot Pdf

Let Us Go Then, You and I is a new edition of T. S. Eliot's selected poems, published to celebrate his nomination as the 'Nation's Favourite Poet' in a BBC poll for National Poetry Day 2009.

Author : Denis Donoghue
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300097190

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Words Alone by Denis Donoghue Pdf

When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These studies have informed his reading of English, Irish, and American literature. Now in this volume, one of our most distinguished readers of modern literature offers his most personal book of literary criticism. Donoghue's Words Alone is an intellectual memoir, a lucid and illuminating account of his engagement with the works of T. S. Eliot--from initial undergraduate encounters with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to later submission to Eliot's entire writings. "The pleasure of Eliot's words persists," Donoghue says, "only because in good faith it can't be denied." Submission to Eliot, in Donoghue's case, involves the ear as much as it does the mind. He is a reader who listens attentively and a writer whose own music in these pages commands attention. Whether he is writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the (often contentious) prose, Donoghue eloquently demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of language.

Author : Bernard Schweizer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429589669

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Christianity and the Triumph of Humor by Bernard Schweizer Pdf

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ideals. The book presents a compelling argument about the centrality of humor to the story of Western Christianity’s cultural and artistic development since the Middle Ages, taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines literary criticism, religious studies, philosophy, theology, and social science. After laying out the conceptual framework in Part 1, Part 2 analyzes key works of religious comedy across the ages from Dante to the present, and it samples the breadth of contemporary religious humor from Brad Stine to Robin Williams, and from Monty Python to South Park. Using critical, historical, and conceptual lenses, the book exposes and overturns past attempts by church authorities, scholars, and commentators to limit and control laughter based on religious, ideological, or moral criteria. This is a unique look into the role of humor and comedy around religion. It will, therefore, appeal to readers interested in multiple fields of inquiry, including religious studies, humor studies, the history of ideas, and comparative literature.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4057664181121

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Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot Pdf

"Prufrock and Other Observations" by T. S. Eliot. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : James Morrow
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1303 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544503106

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The Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow Pdf

The award-winning, irreverent, and darkly funny trilogy from “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction” (The Washington Post). The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. In the World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah, God has died, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a “funny, ferocious fantasy” (Philadelphia Inquirer). God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park—until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. The Eternal Footman completes Morrow’s darkly comic trilogy about God’s untimely demise. With God’s skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of “death awareness” spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe’s stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.

Author : Jewel Spears Brooker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139451130

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T. S. Eliot by Jewel Spears Brooker Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot was also extremely prolific. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews is a testament to both these aspects of Eliot's work. In it, Jewel Spears Brooker presents the most comprehensive gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Eliot's work ever assembled. It includes reviews from both American and British journals. Brooker expands on the major themes of the reviews and shows how the reviews themselves influenced not only Eliot, but also literary history in the twentieth century.

Author : Alison Milbank
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 071903700X

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Dante and the Victorians by Alison Milbank Pdf

Milbank (English, U. of Cambridge) argues that an understanding of Victorianism's reception of Dante is essential for understanding its notions of history, nationalism, aesthetics, and gender as well as the often strange intersections between any two or more of them. She offers a new genealogy of literature in modern times, substituting a continuous Dantism for the conventional tale of Victorian realism and historicism challenged by modernist symbolism. She also finds Dante to be the first writer to historicize, fictionalize, and humanize the eternal realm, and therefore the route through which history, secularized fiction, and positivist humanism can be traced to a lost transcendent. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341935336

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Poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415159470

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T.S. Eliot by Michael Grant Pdf

T.S. Elliot (1888-1965). Writings include: Prufrock and other Observations, Poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

Author : Karishma Attari
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789352141975

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I See You by Karishma Attari Pdf

Nothing haunts you like guilt. Seventeen-year-old Alia is back in Mumbai from exile at an elite boarding school and wants to keep it simple. Her new friends and almost-boyfriend have no idea about her true identity and her troubled past. All that stands between her and happiness is Bobby, a malevolent child ghost who has put a sick chill on life at the family villa. When the all-too-familiar symptoms of a haunting return, Alia's double-life is in jeopardy, and simple is no longer an option. She must face up to the dark pact her Bollywood stepfather and brittle mother made. But is she merely collateral or can she square off their debt to redeem the people she loves?

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434403384

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Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature by Brian Stableford Pdf

In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett. Complete with detailed index.

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498294638

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Poetry at Present by Charles Williams Pdf

"This book was intended [ . . . ] as an introduction to the works of certain contemporary poets, for those readers who do not know them, while not being, it is hoped, entirely without interest for those who do. At times, when the mind of the instructor is jaded, a remark with which he disagrees may prove exciting, and one with which he agrees is sufficiently reminiscent to be helpful. Criticism as an art which attempts, therefore, in another medium, to create experiences as full and satisfying as those of the work it is discussing, has not been attempted here, and will certainly not be found. The essays are utilitarian, whereas real criticism aims always at its own absolute being." -- From the preface

Author : James Morrow
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099409518

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Eternal Footman by James Morrow Pdf