Thoughts On Peace In An Air Raid

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141957050

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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf Pdf

'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound - far more than prayers and anthems - that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we - not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born - will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.' Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Virginia Woolf,Shlomo Kernerman,Ari Kernerman,Bet ha-sefer ha-tikhon ha-maqqif beyehud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:234117213

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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf,Shlomo Kernerman,Ari Kernerman,Bet ha-sefer ha-tikhon ha-maqqif beyehud Pdf

Author : Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231137516

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Cosmopolitan Style by Rebecca L. Walkowitz Pdf

This is a groundbreaking work which links the novels of modernist, contemporary, and postcolonial authors to rethink the political nature of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Patrick Deer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191567513

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Culture in Camouflage by Patrick Deer Pdf

Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, arguing that its exceptional forms and temporalities force us to reappraise British cultural modernity. The book explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an enormously powerful and persuasive mass media and culture industry. Patrick Deer reads war literature as one element in an expanded cultural field, which also includes popular culture and mass communications, the productions of war planners and military historians, projections of new technologies of violence, the fantasies and theories of strategists, and the material culture of total war. Modern war cultures, Deer contends, are defined by their drive to normalize conflict and war-making, by their struggle to colonize the entire wartime cultural field, and by their claim to monopolize representations and interpretation of the conflict. But the mobilization of cultural formations during wartime reveals, at times glaringly, the constitutive contradictions at the heart of modern ideas of culture. The Great War failed to produce a popular war culture on the home front, producing instead an extraordinary literature of protest, yet the strategists struggled to regain their oversight over both the enemy across no man's land, and the minds and bodies of their own mass conscript armies. The interwar years saw a massive effort to make strategic fantasies a reality; if the technology of imperial air power or mobile armoured warfare did not yet exist, culture could be mobilized to shore up the ramshackle war machine. During World War Two a fully fledged British war culture emerged triumphant in time of national crisis, offering the vision of a fully mobilized island fortress, a loyal empire, and a modernized war machine ready to wage a futuristic war of space and movement. This was the struggle that British World War Two writers confronted with extraordinary courage and creativity.

Author : Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813523893

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Feminisms by Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl Pdf

"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

Author : Peter Adkins,Derek Ryan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979381

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Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace by Peter Adkins,Derek Ryan Pdf

This volume asks how Woolf conceptualized peace by exploring various experimental forms she created in response to violence and crisis. Across fifteen chapters written by an international array of scholars, this book draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s aesthetics and deepens our understanding of her writing about war, ethics, feminism and European culture.

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804728539

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Between ‘Race’ and Culture by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

Jøden i engelsk og amerikansk litteratur

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137292179

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 by M. Joannou Pdf

Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Author : Paul K. Saint-Amour
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190200954

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Tense Future by Paul K. Saint-Amour Pdf

A work of literary history that redefines literary modernism's development in relation to the concurrent emergence of total war and the psychological effects it created between the two world wars.

Author : Alice Wood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441148728

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Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism by Alice Wood Pdf

After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex textual histories of The Years (1937), Three Guineas (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) to expose the genesis and evolution of Virginia Woolf's late cultural criticism. Fusing a feminist-historicist approach with the practices and principles of genetic criticism, this innovative study scrutinizes a range of holograph, typescript and proof documents within their historical context to uncover the writing and thinking processes that produced Woolf's cultural analysis during 1931-1941. By demonstrating that Woolf's late cultural criticism developed through her literary experimentalism as well as in response to contemporary social, political and economic upheavals, this book offers a fresh perspective on her emergence as a cultural commentator in her final decade and paves the way for further genetic enquiries in the field.

Author : Merry Pawlowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230554542

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Virginia Woolf and Fascism by Merry Pawlowski Pdf

This unique collection of essays, edited by leading Woolf scholar, brings together for the first time a serious consideration of Virginia Woolf's writing within the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to Between the Acts , 1941, for her responses not only to the growing menaces of dictators abroad, but also to mounting evidence of fascist ideology at home in England. The essays present a portrait of Woolf as a woman writer who was politically engaged, and actively protesting against a worldview which aggressively targeted women for oppression.

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429995924

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Bomber County by Daniel Swift Pdf

In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.

Author : Daniel B. Greene
Publisher : Daniel Greene
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578840789

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BREACH OF PEACE by Daniel B. Greene Pdf

When an imperial family is found butchered, Officers of God are called to investigate. Evidence points to a rebel group trying to stab fear into the very heart of the empire. Inspector Khlid begins a harrowing hunt for those responsible, but when a larger conspiracy comes to light, she struggles to trust even the officers around her.

Author : Charles Chatfield,Ruzanna Ilukhina
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815626029

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Peace/Mir by Charles Chatfield,Ruzanna Ilukhina Pdf

This joint undertaking between the Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Science and the Council for Peace Research in History in the United States offers an analysis of peace which aims to produce alternatives to war. The book draws upon a wide range of documents.

Author : Matt Edge
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845407070

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On Liberty and Peace - Part 2: Peace by Matt Edge Pdf

The author writes: In this project I set out to provide an answer to two fundamental questions of political philosophy. How can human beings (living, as we do now, in a globalised world) live together, in conditions of co-operation over time, enjoying what Immanuel Kant famously called ‘perpetual peace’? And how much individual freedom can we expect to enjoy, and to what degree can we expect that individual freedom to be equal, whilst engaged in the enterprise described by the first question? These may be age-old questions, but I aim, in this project, to offer a new approach to answering them. In part two of this project, I aim to actually provide my own answer to the two fundamental questions with which I began and according to the structure I outline in Liberty. Which is to say, this is the answer I provide to you (and everyone else) to judge regarding how successfully it answers those age old political questions. In short, I argue that these are the changes in actual, material, human conditions - the necessary set of ‘alterable human practices’ to borrow a phrase of Isaiah Berlin’s - required to create an enduring, desirable and just ‘perpetual peace’ on earth. In other words, this is not, in Kant’s phrase, a ‘philosophical sketch’ on how perpetual peace might be attained, but, by focusing on the everyday, material, relationships and conditions which create and foster conflict and injustice across the globe today, I hope to provide a ‘material sketch’ as to how human beings might live in successfully together in conditions of peaceful cooperation and freedom over time.