Trivial Everyday Things

Author : Jørgen Leth
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1897388977

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Trivial Everyday Things by Jørgen Leth Pdf

Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. J rgen Leth is one of Denmark's foremost modern poets and a leading international filmmaker. As a poet, he consistently employs unostentatious, matter-of-fact language and exhibits strong filmic qualities, often in the form of notes and stage directions. Poems and films: two sides of his extensive ouevre, intricately interwoven. Watch the poem. Read the film. Leth was doing intertextuality almost before they called it anything. TRIVIAL EVERYDAY THINGS is a collection of Leth's poems spanning some forty years, selected and translated with exquisite restraint by Martin Aitken. It is, astonishingly, the first book-length collection of Leth's poetry to appear in English.

Author : Andrea Hammel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 3039105248

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Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing by Andrea Hammel Pdf

This book is the first comparative study of the novels written by five German-speaking women - Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen - who had to flee National Socialist Central Europe. Gmeyner, Spiel, Wied and Zur Mühlen found refuge in Britain and thus added - together with male colleagues such as Stefan Zweig and Robert Neumann - an important but rarely investigated new dimension to the British literary landscape. The aim of this study is to reassess the women refugee writers' narrative strategies and integrate their work within feminist literary studies. The author investigates the five writers' narrativisation of everyday life, used to subvert the dominant discourse, and their portrayal of the intersection between class, racial and gender oppression. She also shows their innovative ways of picturing the gendered tension between the experiences of exile and exile as a modernist metaphor as well as their search for ways to refute the Nationalist Socialist rewriting of history. The book situates the novels within the theoretical discussions surrounding exile studies, social history and women's writing.

Author : Simon Werrett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226610252

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Thrifty Science by Simon Werrett Pdf

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explores this distinctive culture of experiment and demonstrates how the values of the household helped to shape an array of experimental inquiries, ranging from esoteric investigations of glowworms and sour beer to famous experiments such as Benjamin Franklin’s use of a kite to show lightning was electrical and Isaac Newton’s investigations of color using prisms. Tracing the diverse ways that men and women put their material possessions into the service of experiment, Werrett offers a history of practices of recycling and repurposing that are often assumed to be more recent in origin. This thriving domestic culture of inquiry was eclipsed by new forms of experimental culture in the nineteenth century, however, culminating in the resource-hungry science of the twentieth. Could thrifty science be making a comeback today, as scientists grapple with the need to make their research more environmentally sustainable?

Author : Jan Sokol
Publisher : Karolinum Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788024622293

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Thinking About Ordinary Things by Jan Sokol Pdf

How to teach philosophy to young dissidents, excluded from higher education by the communist regime? The author of this book, Czech philosopher, former dissident, software developer and occasional politician, tries to carry over this experience into his university lectures. It is not a talk about philosophy or philosophers, but rather an invitation: its aim is first to excite the reader´s interest and to lead him or her to think philosophically by himself. In some 30 short chapters, covering a broad spectrum of topics and followed by questions, the reader is shown that philosophy is not only a special discipline, but rather a habit of thought, which can and should be applied anywhere.

Author : Ajay Heble
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442613065

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The Tumble of Reason by Ajay Heble Pdf

Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning. Characteristically, they articulate an unresolvable tension between variants on these positions: between, on the one hand, her delineation of a surface reality - a world 'out there' which we are invited to recognize as real and true - and, on the other, her involvement with a discourse of absence that challenges the very conventions within which her fiction operates. Drawing on structuralist and post-structuralist theories of language and its relation to meaning, knowledge, and systems of power, and on theories of postmodernist fiction, Heble offers both a careful reading of Munro's stories and a theoretical framework for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original contribution to the criticism on Munro.

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349193004

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Reading Poe Reading Freud by Clive Bloom Pdf

Author : John D. Rouse MA
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490856322

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Paul, the Passionate Scholar by John D. Rouse MA Pdf

This book is Gods Word, prayerfully unfolding glimpses into the clarifying elements of the Greek text, augmented by historical images of his times. Designed to arouse believers and further deepen their Christian commitment, it can change lives and augment Christian growth of lay readers. The language of the NT Greek holds many keys for unlocking the riches of Gods palace. In a special tour of each chapter, one can marvel over stories of valor and tender moments of love, lavishly displayed in rich flavors and stirring narratives that invigorate the soul.

Author : Harville Hendrix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780671868840

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The Personal Companion by Harville Hendrix Pdf

Combining practical advice, humour, and enlightening wisdom, these daily meditations and exercises provide powerful insights that can help anyone create unlimited possibilities for finding-and keeping-love.

Author : Rudolf Siebert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1878 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004191259

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Manifesto of the Critical Theory of Society and Religion (3 vols.) by Rudolf Siebert Pdf

The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem in the context of late capitalist society and its globalization.

Author : C.M. (Colin Metcalfe) Enriquez
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Burmese Loneliness: (Abridged) by C.M. (Colin Metcalfe) Enriquez Pdf

Born in India to British parents, Colin Metcalfe Enriquez had a natural affinity for SE Asia. After education in England, he was commissioned an officer in the army and posted back to India. A born explorer, keen observer, and practised writer, he studied the people, languages, and natural world of India and Burma (today's Myanmar). As he writes in this book, he saw modern materialism as a burden and a happier life of simplicity in the native peoples of Burma. He writes: "Consider our little span of life, and how hard we strive. Yet, like these simple folk, we go forth hence naked out of it. I do not suggest that we can help materialism. It is bequeathed us from the past. Doubtless it is based upon necessity. I only compare it with the contentment we rather despise as primitive. So many ideals have gone overboard since 1914 [World War I]." But it's the burden of loneliness that accompanies every remote traveler that Enriquez writes of here. How each person deals with it is different. Again he writes: "The memory of the outside world alone breeds restlessness. The capacity for solitude is praised over and over again in the Buddhist books. I have understood a little now why that is so. No man can endure loneliness whose heart is bound to materialism, who is not wholly free from desire." Well-known in his own lifetime, this lovely out-of-print 1918 classic is available for the first time in an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Author : Maximiliano E Korstanje,Razaq Raj,Kevin Griffin
Publisher : CABI
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786392282

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Risk and Safety Challenges for Religious Tourism and Events by Maximiliano E Korstanje,Razaq Raj,Kevin Griffin Pdf

Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised, where annual religious festivals are commemorated with mass gatherings lasting for days and large crowds require detailed disaster management plans. Beginning with a general section on risk management, covering areas such as disaster management, terrorism, crime and security, the book then delves deeper into specific issues and challenges. It reviews important topics such as understanding the behaviour of crowds, how to perform a risk assessment for a sacred space, and travelling in what some would regard as an increasingly hostile world. Mitigating risk at mass gathering events and festivals is an area that still needs further research, but this book brings together current thought and provides a valuable reference for those studying religion, tourism and events, as well as event organizers, emergency and hospital services, and local authorities.

Author : Franz Baermann Steiner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 157181714X

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Taboo, truth, and religion by Franz Baermann Steiner Pdf

Author : Erich von Däniken
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601636867

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Twilight of the Gods by Erich von Däniken Pdf

Bestselling author Erich von Däniken delves into the mysteries of the Mayan civilization and when the extraterrestrial will return. Includes a Foreword by Giorgio Tsoukalos. High up in the Bolivian Andes-4,000 meters above sea level-lies Puma punku, an ancient ruined city that simply could never have been constructed by its Stone Age inhabitants. "Something here really stinks to high heaven," writes Erich von Daniken. "In Twilight of the Gods," says von Daniken, "I document precisely what it was that left the first visitors breathless as they stood before the mighty stone blocks some 400 years ago. I will show you what archeologists discovered hundreds of years ago and demonstrate how much has been destroyed over the centuries. Intentionally. "I will also prove that Puma punku was not built by any Stone Age people. "And in December 2012, the gods will return from their long journey and appear again here on Earth. At least that is what the Mayan calendar would have us believe. "The so-called gods—the extraterrestrials—will come again. We're headed for a 'god shock' of major proportions. "But doesn't anyone with half a brain know that interstellar travel is simply impossible because of the sheer distances involved? And that extraterrestrials would never look like us? "Well, dear readers, I destroy these preconceptions. Systematically. One bit at a time." In his own inimitable way, Erich von Daniken picks these preconceptions and prejudices apart with a clarity no other author could manage.

Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547235576

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Cheerful—By Request by Edna Ferber Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cheerful—By Request" by Edna Ferber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Evangelia Sembou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317122920

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Hegel's Phenomenology and Foucault's Genealogy by Evangelia Sembou Pdf

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy', contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities, most notably in the manner in which they dispense with distinctions between subject and object, theory and praxis, mind and body, and reason and nature, thus pointing the way to a form of social and political theorizing without presuppositions. Considering the possibility of developing a dialectical approach of 'phenomenology' and 'genealogy', this volume develops our understanding of critical theory, whilst engaging in debates concerning truth and knowledge in the philosophy of the social sciences. A rich exploration of the significance and implications of Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy' for the social sciences, it will be of interest to philosophers, as well as to social and political theorists.