The Tulip And The Pope

Author : Deborah Larsen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307429483

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The Tulip and the Pope by Deborah Larsen Pdf

The story of novelist and poet Deborah Larsen's young womanhood, The Tulip and the Pope is both an exquisitely crafted spiritual memoir and a beautifully nuanced view of life in the convent.In midsummer of 1960, nineteen-year-old Deborah shares a cab to a convent. She and the teenage girls with her, passionate to become nuns, heedless of all they are leaving behind, smoke their last cigarettes before entering their new lives. In the same artful prose that distinguished her novel The White, Larsen's memoir lets us into the hushed life of the convent. She captures the exquisite peace she found there, as well as the extreme constriction of the rules and her gradual awareness of all that she is missing. Eventually the physical world—the lush tulip she remembers seeing as a girl, the snow she tunneled in, and even the mystery of sex—begins to seem to her an alternative theater for a deep understanding and love of God.

Author : Dustin Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521761239

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Swift and Pope by Dustin Griffin Pdf

In this book, Dustin Griffin explores the lifelong conversation between two great eighteenth-century English writers, Swift and Pope.

Author : Brian Titley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773551725

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Into Silence and Servitude by Brian Titley Pdf

For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of the Church was a woman's face. After the Second World War, as increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude Brian Titley delves into the experiences of young women who entered Catholic religious sisterhoods at this time. The Church favoured nuns as teachers because their wageless labour made education more affordable in what was the world's largest private school system. Focusing on the Church's recruitment methods Titley examines the idea of a religious vocation, the school settings in which nuns were recruited, and the tactics of persuasion directed at both suitable girls and their parents. The author describes how young women entered religious life and how they negotiated the sequence of convent "formation stages," each with unique challenges respecting decorum, autonomy, personal relations, work, and study. Although expulsions and withdrawals punctuated each formation stage, the number of nuns nationwide continued to grow until it reached a pinnacle in 1965, the same year that Catholic schools achieved their highest enrolment. Based on extensive archival research, memoirs, oral history, and rare Church publications, Into Silence and Servitude presents a compelling narrative that opens a window on little-known aspects of America’s convent system.

Author : Brian Titley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476689579

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Predatory Nuns by Brian Titley Pdf

Since the first scandals broke in the mid-1980s, the sexual misconducts of priests have cost the Catholic Church in America more than $4 billion in compensation settlements and incalculable damage to its reputation. Although their crimes have attracted far less attention, predatory nuns have also caused harm. The depredations of these nuns took place in convent novitiates, orphanages, boarding schools for Native Americans, and in Catholic schools, both elementary and secondary. Their victims, male and female, ranged in age from six-year-olds to young adults. This book focuses on the criminal behavior of North American nuns and the responses from church leadership. Mothers superior were outspoken in their refusal to accept responsibility for the crimes committed under their watch, and their inclination was to close ranks and protect the predators, endangering many children and young people in the process. The complainants, on the other hand, were considered nuisances to be pushed aside with the least amount of exposure and expense possible. Straightforward and informative, this text begins by exploring the nuns' vow of chastity and its relationship with human sexuality, followed by dozens of case studies detailing the sexual abuse that nuns committed in various settings.

Author : Howard Anderson,John S. Shea
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816656943

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Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660-1800 by Howard Anderson,John S. Shea Pdf

Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660–1800 was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this volume nineteen contributors, in as many essays, discuss various aspects of critical and aesthetic development in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, from the time of Dryden to Wordsworth. This was a period in which traditional literary criticism progressed in important new directions and which saw the rise of aesthetic theory. The book is published in honor of Samuel Holt Monk, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and distinguished American scholar in the field of eighteenth century English literature, literary criticism, and aesthetics. The essays, all of which were written for this volume, analyze the literary theories and assumptions of some of the most important artists and critics of the time, as well as the aesthetic theories which influenced painting and literature. During the period under discussion, the progress of social and philosophical thought stimulated an intensive examination of the nature and function of art. Although neoclassical ideals dominated Restoration criticism and continued to influence Pope and later critics like Johnson and Reynolds, other tendencies were gaining ground, and throughout the eighteenth century the effort to reconcile a growing interest in "the pleasing emotions" with the tenets of classicism created criticism and aesthetic theory of extraordinary complexity. These essays illuminate that complexity without oversimplifying it. The book is illustrated with reproductions of works of art of the period. In addition to the essays, there is a bibliography of Professor Monk's writings.

Author : G.S. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000544978

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Alexander Pope by G.S. Fraser Pdf

First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly in his age and relates the liveliness and variety of his poetry to the strange combination of chronic invalidism and a sociable disposition which marked his life. G. S. Fraser argues that Pope is a more varied figure than his reputation as a great satirist indicates and that he is in some ways more a survivor from the Restoration than a precursor of middle-class morality. Special attention is paid to the poems in the first Collected Works of 1717, which displays both Pope’s gaiety and his sense of colour and beauty. The dignity of his translation of Homer and the thoughtfulness and piety of An Essay on Man are also emphasised. His satirical genius, which found its greatest expression during the later years of declining health, is not ignored but set in perspective. Many readers of this persuasively argued study will be surprised to discover in it a gayer, more warm-hearted and more likeable Pope than they had, perhaps, imagined. Students of English literature will find this book immensely refreshing.

Author : Netta Murray Goldsmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351729987

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Alexander Pope by Netta Murray Goldsmith Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope's life so as to show the factors-personal and public, psychological and social-which shaped his character and enabled him to secure widespread recognition as a major poet. Discussions of significant works are integrated into the narrative covering main events and key relationships, as well as illustrating points made throughout about Pope's approach to his art. Among other things this book shows how vulnerable Pope felt as a Papist in a time of endemic Jacobite activity, and how his fear of possible prosecution for sedition determined much of his conduct and the way he shaped his career. Alexander Pope: The evolution of a poet not only provides a fresh perspective on Pope, but also on the very nature of literary creativity.

Author : Anna Pavord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781635573916

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The Tulip by Anna Pavord Pdf

A twentieth anniversary edition of the classic, featuring new material by the author. Anna Pavord's internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, the United States alone imports three thousand million tulip bulbs each year. No other flower has ever carried so much consequence; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behavior, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through Asia, India, and the Ottoman Empire to tell how a humble wildflower of the Asian steppes made its way to Turkey and from there took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift book, and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a completely revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden, and a reorganized listing of tulip species, to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : English poetry
ISBN : IND:30000115302485

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Pope's Essay on Man by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Devane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101659229

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Juror Number Eleven by Terry Devane Pdf

A Mairead O'Clare Novel from the author of Uncommon Justice and A Stain Upon the Robe The legal team of Mairead O’Clare and Sheldon Gold has just wrapped their successful defense of Gold’s childhood friend, Big Ben Friedman. The charge is murder. Now it’s the prosecution’s turn to move in for the kill. They have a charge of their own—jury tampering. And all bets are on Juror Number Eleven—especially after her lifeless body is discovered in her home strung up by her neck. Her last desperate phone call was to Mairead. That looks bad. The prime suspect, Big Ben, has disappeared. That looks worse. First, they have to bring their client in on a new murder charge. Then they have to do the impossible—they have to defend him.

Author : Maria Henrietta De la Cherois- Crommelin,May Crommelin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Flowers in literature
ISBN : PSU:000006227371

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Poets in the Garden by Maria Henrietta De la Cherois- Crommelin,May Crommelin Pdf

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Poetry Kaleidoscope by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.

Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521658853

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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Sitter Pdf

This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066239231

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The American Shorthorn Herd Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Cattle
ISBN : PSU:000066648956

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The American Short-horn Herd Book ... by Anonim Pdf