The Literature Of Possibility

Author : Hazel Estella Barnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0803252293

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Humanistic Existentialism by Hazel Estella Barnes Pdf

Click for larger cover scan Humanistic Existentialism The Literature of Possibility Paper: 1959, X, 419, CIP.LC 59-11732 ISBN: 0-8032-5229-3 Price: $29.95 University of Nebraska Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This study in humanistic existentialism is highly informative as well as entertaining. It is a scholarly, detailed analysis of the literary art, the philosophical ideas, and the psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. It is also a competent effort to explain the positive implications for the theory of freedom and possibility which lie half buried under this literature of nothingness, alienation, and absurdity. . . . Miss Barnes makes thoroughly enjoyable reading of a subject-matter which might have seemed forbidding."--Herbert W. Schneider, Journal of Philosophy. "Recommended unqualifiedly as the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country."--Willard Colston, Chicago Sun-Times. "Those who want a real understanding of existentialism instead of the usual superficial generalizations are certain to gain it from this book."--Walter Kaufmann, The American Scholar. "The book captures much of the forlorn dark grandeur of the existentialist vision of the human condition."--Yale Review. "The philosophy of Sartre is presented accurately and with rare elegance and simplicity. . . . The section on psychoanalysis compares Sartre to Freud, then to Horney and Fromm, then to the phenomenologists. The treatment is fair-minded and careful."--Robert Champigny, L'Esprit Crateur.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 1931 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781473645042

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The Literature of Possibility by Tom Butler-Bowdon Pdf

For centuries, individuals have strived for "the good life:" the ability to provide for oneself and one's family, make meaningful contributions to society, and enjoy culture and nature, among other happy pursuits. The wisdom to achieve this great life is contained in The Literature of Possibility, a digital collection featuring a new introduction that brings Tom Butler-Bowdon's 50 Classics series

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307490032

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The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan Pdf

This collection of linked poems from David Levithan, the author of the New York Times bestseller Every Day and the groundbreaking classic Boy Meets Boy and the co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green), will introduce you to a world of unforgettable and emotionally resonant voices. Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. Enter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield; a girl who loves the boy who wears all black; a boy with the perfect body; and a girl who writes love songs for a girl she can’t have. These are just a few of the captivating characters readers will get to know in this intensely heartfelt new novel about those ever-changing moments of love and heartbreak that go hand-in-hand with high school. David Levithan plumbs the depths of teenage emotion to create an amazing array of voices that readers won’t forget. So, enter their lives and prepare to welcome the realm of possibility open to us all. Love, joy, and these stories will linger. A MARGARET A. EDWARDS AWARD WINNER AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK FOR THE TEEN AGE “Luminous . . . each voice sings with hope, humor and possibility.” —Time Out New York Kids

Author : Hiromi Goto,Aries Cheung
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550501836

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The Water of Possibility by Hiromi Goto,Aries Cheung Pdf

One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.

Author : Bruce Goldstone
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466844520

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That's a Possibility! by Bruce Goldstone Pdf

With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations. In the vein of Great Estimations, this is a perfect book for getting across important math concepts in a fun way. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Michael Tondre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941462

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The Physics of Possibility by Michael Tondre Pdf

The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took up new breakthroughs in quantification, they showed how all sorts of phenomena—the condition of stars, atoms, molecules, and nerves—could be represented as a set of probabilities through time. Michael Tondre demonstrates how these techniques transformed the British novel. Fictions of development by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and others joined the vogue for alternative possibilities. Their novels not only reflected received pieties of maturation but plotted a wider number of deviations from the norms of reproductive adulthood. By accentuating overlooked elements of form, Tondre reveals the novel’s changing identification with possible worlds through the decades when physics became a science of all things. In contrast to the observation that statistics served to invent normal populations, Tondre brings influential modes of historical thinking to the foreground. His readings reveal an acute fascination with alternative temporalities throughout the period, as novelists depicted the categories of object, action, and setting in new probabilistic forms. Privileging fiction’s agency in reimagining historical realities, never simply sanctioning them, Tondre revises our understanding of the novel and its ties to the ascendant Victorian sciences.

Author : Hazel Estella Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : UCSD:31822005634993

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The Literature of Possibility by Hazel Estella Barnes Pdf

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134391066

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Don DeLillo by Peter Boxall Pdf

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns for the fist time. Providing a lucid and nuanced reading of DeLillo's ambivalent engagement with American and European culture, as well as with modernism and postmodernism, and globalization and terrorism, this fascinating volume interrogates the critical and aesthetic capacities of fiction in what is an age of global capitalism and US cultural imperialism.

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199609291

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Powers of Possibility by Alex Houen Pdf

By outlining a novel concept of literary practice 'potentialism', this text shows how opening up literary possibilities enabled writers such as Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Lyn Hejinian to tackle matters of power and politics.

Author : Pamela Redmond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451616439

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The Possibility of You by Pamela Redmond Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Pamela Redmond delivers a beautifully written novel about three generations of women in New York City and the experiences that shape and connect them to each other. The Possibility of You weaves together three interlocking stories involving three women dealing with issues of pregnancy and motherhood at key moments in history of the last century: On the brink of the First World War and the dawn of the modern age; as the liberalism of the ’60s and ’70s gave way to Reagan’s 1980s; and during the autumn of Barack Obama’s election. Contemporary heroine Cait, an African-American journalist raised by white adoptive parents, goes on a search for her birth mother inspired by her own unplanned pregnancy. Orphan Billie travels from her hippie upbringing in San Francisco to discover the upscale New York grandmother she never knew existed. And Irish nanny Bridget loses the boy she cares for and loves in the 1916 polio epidemic, only to try and replace him with a child of her own. Delving into the complex emotions that lie at the heart of unplanned pregnancy, motherhood, and the definition of family, this sweeping inter-generational saga illuminates the struggles of these very different women—and shows how the search for belonging is a connection that remains universal.

Author : Paul Graham
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 3865218628

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A Shimmer of Possibility by Paul Graham Pdf

"First published in late 2007, Paul Graham's a shimmer of possibility was quickly hailed as "one of the most important advances in contemporary photographic practice that has taken place in a long while" and marked a paradigm shift in the medium. The first edition redefined what a photobook can be. Comprising 12 individual hardback books in an edition of 1,000 copies, it sold out immediately. This second edition brings together the 12 books in one single volume at an accessible price. Loosely inspired by Chekhov's short stories, a shimmer of possibility comprises a series of photographic short stories of everyday life in today's America. Each story is a small sequence of images, such as a man smoking a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas, or a walk down a street in Boston on an autumn afternoon. Often two, three or four sequences intertwine in a single chapter, like separate but related lives co-existing in suburban America. Sometimes the quiet narrative breaks unexpectedly into a sublime moment - while a couple carry their shopping home in Texas a small child dances with a plastic bag in a garden; as a man cuts the grass in Pittsburgh it begins to rain and the low sun breaks through to illuminate every raindrop. These filmic haikus avoid the forceful summation we usually find in photography, shunning any tidy packaging of the world into perfect images. Instead, life simply flows around and past us while we stand and stare, quietly astonished by its beauty and grace. The radical form of this work is reflected in the book's sequences, giving the flow of life precedence over conclusiveness, where nothing much happens, but nothing is foreclosed either, where everything shimmers with possibility." -- Publisher's description

Author : Domhnall Mitchell,Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1558494626

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Measures of Possibility by Domhnall Mitchell,Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell Pdf

"The author confronts the thorny question of whether any set of editing practices can adequately represent in print the distinctive characteristics of Emily Dickinson's writing".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811224970

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Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

Possibility of Being is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-l926). The title (taken from one of the Sonnets to Orpheus, ''Ibis is the Creature") reflects the central concern of both Rilke's life and art: the achievement of "being,” which this most spiritual yet least doctrinaire of modern German poets defined as "the experiencing of the completest possible inner intensity.'' The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of "being." And just as the unicorn in "This Is the Creature" has an eternal "possibility of being" but only becomes visible in the mirror held by a virgin, so can our own possibilities become manifest in the mirror held by the sensitive artist. The poems are chosen from The Book of Hours (1899-1903), The Book of Images (1902 and 1906), New Poems (1907 and 1908), Requiem (1909), Duino Elegies (1923), Sonnets to Orpheus (1923), and the posthumous Poems 1906-26. This selection was made by Professor Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, who drew from the various New Directions volumes of Rilke's work translated by J. B. Leishman.

Author : Lance Olsen,Trevor Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1935738194

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Architectures of Possibility by Lance Olsen,Trevor Dodge Pdf

"Architectures of Possibility" theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and characterization; offers various suggestions for generating writing that resists, rethinks, and challenges authors to push their work into self-aware and surprising territory.

Author : Keith Bosley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCAL:$B391255

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The Possibility of Angels by Keith Bosley Pdf