The Negating Fire Vs The Affirming Flame

Author : Irene Villaescusa Illán
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030515997

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Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature by Irene Villaescusa Illán Pdf

This book studies a selection of works of Philippine literature written in Spanish during the American occupation of the Philippines (1902-1946). It explores the place of Filipino nationalism in a selection of fiction and non-fiction texts by Spanish-speaking Filipino writers Jesús Balmori, Adelina Gurrea Monasterio, Paz Mendoza Guazón, and Antonio Abad. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws from Anthropology, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Analysis and World Literature, this book offers a comparative analysis of the position of these authors toward the cultural transformations that have taken place as a result of the Philippines' triple history of colonization (by Spain, the US, and Japan) while imagining an independent nation. Engaging with an untapped archive, this book is a relevant and timely contribution to the fields of both Filipino and Hispanic literary studies.

Author : Daniel McKay
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531505189

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Beyond Hostile Islands by Daniel McKay Pdf

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have focused on American literature without drawing connections to parallel traditions elsewhere. Beyond Hostile Islands contributes to ongoing efforts by Australasian scholars to place their national cultures in conversation with those of the United States, particularly regarding studies of the ideologies that legitimize warfare. Consecutively, the book examines five of the most significant historical and thematic areas associated with the war: island combat, economic competition, internment, imprisonment, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Throughout, the central issue pivots around the question of how or whether at all New Zealand fiction writing differs from that of the United States. Can a sense of islandness, the ‘tyranny of distance,’ Māori cultural heritage, or the political legacies of the nuclear-free movement provide grounds for distinctive authorial insights? As an opening gambit, Beyond Hostile Islands puts forward the term ‘ideological coproduction’ to describe how a territorially and demographically more minor national culture may accede to the essentials of a given ideology while differing in aspects that reflect historical and provincial dimensions that are important to it. Appropriately, the literary texts under examination are set in various locales, including Japan, the Solomon Islands, New Zealand, New Mexico, Ontario, and the Marshall Islands. The book concludes in a deliberately open-ended pose, with the full expectation that literary writing on the Pacific War will grow in range and richness, aided by the growth of Pacific Studies as a research area.

Author : Ronald D. Klein
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789715425629

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The Other Empire by Ronald D. Klein Pdf

In this survey of literary images of Japan, Ronald Klein has identified more than 160 works with Japanese characters, providing both comprehensive overviews as well as individual monographs on specific writers. This book creates a subgenre of thematic work, positing an alternative postcolonial relationship.

Author : David Patterson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813194158

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The Shriek of Silence by David Patterson Pdf

"In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter." So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense than an impassioned meditation on the deeper sources of the Holocaust novel. Among the authors examined are Elie Wiesel, Arnost Lustig, Aharon Appelfeld, Katzetnik 135633, Primo Levi, Yehuda Amichai, Piotr Rawicz, A. Anatoli, Saul Bellow, I.B. Singer, Anna Langfus, Rachmil Bryks, and Ilse Aichinger. The Shriek of Silence is a first in several respects: the first to examine the Holocaust novels in their original languages, the first to articulate a theoretical basis for its approach, and the first phenomenological investigation—one that attempts to penetrate the process of creation for these novelists. Organized along conceptual lines, the book examines "the word in exile," the themes of death of the father and the child, transformations of the self, and the implications of the reader. Its philosophical foundations are Rosenzweig, Buber, Neher, and Levinas. Its critical approach is shaped by Bakhtin. The novelists of the Holocaust, in witnessing through their words, regain their voices and in so doing are reborn. By probing the depths of their struggle, Patterson's study draws us too toward a higher understanding, perhaps even our own rebirth.

Author : Antoine Panaïoti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031623

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Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy by Antoine Panaïoti Pdf

An exploration of the complex and interesting relations between Nietzsche's philosophical thought and the Buddhist philosophy which he admired and opposed. The volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in Nietzsche's philosophy, Buddhist thought and in the metaphysical, existential and ethical issues that emerge with the demise of theism.

Author : Lorrie Goldensohn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231513036

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Dismantling Glory by Lorrie Goldensohn Pdf

Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms that by and large, twentieth-century war poetry is fundamentally antiwar. She examines the changing nature of the war lyric and takes on the literary thinking of two countries separated by their common language. World War I poets such as Wilfred Owen emphasized the role of soldier as victim. By World War II, however, English and American poets, influenced by the leftist politics of W. H. Auden, tended to indict the whole of society, not just its leaders, for militarism. During the Vietnam War, soldier poets accepted themselves as both victims and perpetrators of war's misdeeds, writing a nontraditional, more personally candid war poetry. The book not only discusses the poetry of trench warfare but also shows how the lives of civilians—women and children in particular—entered a global war poetry dominated by air power, invasion, and occupation. Goldensohn argues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front, thus bringing women and civilians into war discourse as never before. She discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and notes the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste. In addition to placing the war lyric in literary and historical context, the book discusses in detail individual poets such as Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Keith Douglas, Randall Jarrell, and a group of poets from the Vietnam War, including W. D. Ehrhart, Bruce Weigl, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Huddle, and Doug Anderson. Dismantling Glory is an original and compelling look at the way twentieth-century war poetry posited new relations between masculinity and war, changed and complicated the representation of war, and expanded the scope of antiwar thinking.

Author : Simon Ferdinand,Irene Villaescusa-Illán,Esther Peeren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030149802

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Other Globes by Simon Ferdinand,Irene Villaescusa-Illán,Esther Peeren Pdf

This volume challenges dominant imaginations of globalization by highlighting alternative visions of the globe, world, earth, or planet that abound in cultural, social, and political practice. In the contemporary context of intensive globalization, ruthless geopolitics, and unabated environmental exploitation, these “other globes” offer paths for thinking anew the relations between people, polities, and the planet. Derived from disparate historical and cultural contexts, which include the Holy Roman Empire; late medieval Brabant; the (post)colonial Philippines; early twentieth-century Britain; contemporary Puerto Rico; occupied Palestine; postcolonial Africa and Chile; and present-day California, the past and peripheral globes analyzed in this volume reveal the variety of ways in which the global has been—and might be—imagined. As such, the fourteen contributions underline that there is no neutral, natural, or universal way of inhabiting the global.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525824

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Faith in the Fires of Criticism by Paul Avis Pdf

Have the 'fires' of modern criticism melted away Christianity's claim to truth? Seminal thinkers such as Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud argued that religious belief is nothing more than an illusion, triggered by our own psychological and social needs. Jung claimed that traditional Christianity was a gross distortion of the divine. Paul Avis does not deny the reality of those human factors which shape our beliefs, but he argues that it is possible to take seriously both human distortions of religious truth and also the reality of the transcendent God. These in-depth studies of the most unsparing critics of Christianity point to the possibility of a faith chastened and refined in the fires of criticism.

Author : David Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317304593

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T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds by David Ward Pdf

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described as ‘the Tradition’. It also recognises the fact that Eliot, for all his attempts at universality, was a product of time and place, and gives an account of the way in which his education and experience shaped his most important interests. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Author : Elena P. Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015052866459

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The Negating Fire Vs. the Affirming Flame by Elena P. Polo Pdf

Author : Coleman B. Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532685187

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Our Hearts Are Restless Till They Find Their Rest in Thee by Coleman B. Brown Pdf

Our Hearts Are Restless Till They Find Their Rest in Thee: Prophetic Wisdom in a Time of Anguish from Coleman B. Brown, edited by Michael Granzen and Lisa A. Masotta. The book includes powerful reflections from Chris Hedges, Peter Ochs, and Joshua Brown.

Author : Milan Panic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442243637

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Prime Minister for Peace by Milan Panic Pdf

In this remarkable memoir, Milan Panic tells the formerly unknown story of his attempts to oust Slobodan Milosevic and his battles with the U.S. State Department in an effort to bring peace to the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars. A young cycling champion who fought the Nazi occupation in Yugoslavia with Tito’s partisans, Panic defected after World War II from his now-communist country to start a new life in the United States. But his greatest challenge still lay ahead when he was invited to serve as prime minister of Yugoslavia. But in Belgrade, ancient enmities and suspicions festered, and the threat of tragedy and bloodshed loomed large as ethnic conflict raged. And even as Panic implored the West for support, he would have to outwit the machinations of a wily Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Including behind-the-scenes details of his rivalry with Milosevic, this book is a compelling chronicle of the road to peace in the Balkans.

Author : Robert J Dornan
Publisher : Robert J Dornan
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Witches and Witchcraft: Chronicles of the Mystical by Robert J Dornan Pdf

Title: Witches and Witchcraft: Chronicles of the Mystical Genre: Non-Fiction - Spirituality, Wicca, Witchcraft Unveil the Mysteries of Witchcraft! Step into the enchanting world of witches and witchcraft with this illuminating guide. Spanning from ancient traditions to contemporary practices, "Witches and Witchcraft" takes you on a 360-page journey of discovery. Delve into the legends, myths, and fascinating stories of famous witches throughout history. Explore the dark chapters of witch hunts and persecution, and the empowering aspects of witchcraft and feminism. As you journey through each chapter, you'll uncover the duality of witches, the mystical rituals, and their roles in literature, pop culture, and modern spirituality. This book is your key to understanding the world of witches, their connection to nature, and their powerful craft. Whether you're a curious seeker or considering joining a coven, this comprehensive guide offers a deep insight into the world of witchcraft. With a commitment to dispelling myths and revealing the truth, "Witches and Witchcraft" is an essential resource for anyone captivated by the mysticism and spirituality of witches. Get your copy today and embark on a journey of knowledge and discovery!

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Arnold V. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199272670

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Hegel's Philosophy of Nature by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Arnold V. Miller Pdf

Hegel's aim in this work is to interpret the varied phenomena of Nature from the standpoint of a dialectical logic. Those who still think of Hegel as a merely a priori philosopher will here find abundant evidence that he was keenly interested in and very well informed about empirical science.

Author : E. P. P. Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780853454915

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Poverty of Theory by E. P. P. Thompson Pdf

This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England’s most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson’s famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism of Althusserian structuralism. In lively and erudite prose, Thompson argues for a self-critical and unapologetically humanist Marxist tradition. Also included are three essays of considerable importance to the development of the New Left.