Zen And The White Whale

Author : Daniel Herman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611461572

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Zen and the White Whale by Daniel Herman Pdf

In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the few aspects of Moby-Dick’s construction left unexplored by scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the greatest of American books—offering critical re-considerations of many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity, respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a fickle, slippery world.

Author : Daniel Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Zen Buddhism in literature
ISBN : OCLC:739667001

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Zen and the White Whale by Daniel Herman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8763512262

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Studies of White Whales (Delphinapterus Leucas) and Narwhals (Monodon Monoceros) in Greenland and Adjacent Waters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1111195651

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White whale by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780795350511

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Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles offers inspiration and insight on finding one’s muse and channeling it onto the page. Acclaimed writer of novels and short stories as well as screen- and stage plays, Ray Bradbury has established himself as one of the most legendary voices in science fiction and fantasy. In Zen in the Art of Writing, he shares how his unbridled passion for creating worlds made him a master of the craft. Part memoir, part philosophical guide, the essays in this book teach the joy of writing. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of putting words together, Bradbury’s zen is found in the celebration of storytelling that drove him to write every day. Bringing together eleven essays and a series of poems written with his own unique style and fervor, Zen in the Art of Writing is a must read for all prospective writers and Bradbury fans. “Bradbury lovers will find this a Bradbury feast.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781640140530

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Melville's Mirrors by Brian Yothers Pdf

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

Author : Wyn Kelley,Christopher Ohge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119668503

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A New Companion to Herman Melville by Wyn Kelley,Christopher Ohge Pdf

Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this New Companion offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways. Editors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated. In addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hem­ispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers: A thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work Comprehensive explorations of Melville’s works, including Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and Israel Potter, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece Clarel Practical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville In-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world Two symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement A New Companion to Herman Melville provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.

Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771690294

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Our Daily Breach by Dennis Patrick Slattery Pdf

Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dickoffers both a way of understanding what has generally been called the greatest novel of the American myth while simultaneously exploring one’s own personal myth. Its added feature is that it is an interactive book in allowing reader’s to meditate on one question per page for each day of the year and to undercover many facets of one’s personal myth through cursive writing. It has been long understood that classics of literature are their own form of therapy in that they frequently tap into some of the most shared concerns of being human. This book makes such a connection between our interior life and the plot of the story through the power of mythopoiesis, namely the imaginative act of giving a formative shape to the myth we are each living in and out through the power of analogy, correspondence or accord with the classic poem. Using Melville’s epic of America, the reader may enter the deepest seas of his/her own mythic waters to realize and give language to the myth that resides in our daily plot line.

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587299063

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Chasing the White Whale by David Dowling Pdf

"There have been a lot of crazy books about Melville and Moby-Dickiut this isn't one of them. Dowling's overarching analogy, between Ishmael's and Melville's obsessions and the annual marathon group-reading of Moby-Dick in New Bedford, makes perfect sense and generates illuminating analyses of the novel and its cultural contexts. It also lets him open his book up into a passionate exploration of how great literature can still play a vital role in people's lives today"-Damion Searls, editor, Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861 and Melville's; or The Whale --Book Jacket.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242068

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Green Shadows, White Whale by Ray Bradbury Pdf

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming. But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn's pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life's misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you'll ever experience -- with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 4838 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781440229169

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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide by Martin Popoff Pdf

Whether you're cleaning out a closet, basement or attic full of records, or you're searching for hidden gems to build your collection, you can depend on Goldmine Record Album Price Guide to help you accurately identify and appraise your records in order to get the best price. • Knowledge is power, so power-up with Goldmine! • 70,000 vinyl LPs from 1948 to present • Hundreds of new artists • Detailed listings with current values • Various artist collections and original cast recordings from movies, televisions and Broadway • 400 photos • Updated state-of-the-market reports • New feature articles • Advice on buying and selling Goldmine Grading Guide - the industry standard

Author : Shōei Andō
Publisher : Heian International
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036276702

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Zen and American Transcendentalism by Shōei Andō Pdf

Author : Chad Harbach
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192163

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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Pdf

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.

Author : Roshi P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317215332

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The Wild, White Goose by Roshi P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett Pdf

This book, first published as two volumes in 1977 and 1978, was published purely for the purpose of showing how Buddhist training was done by the Reverend Jiyu-Kennett in the Far East. The material for the book was taken from diaries covering eight years spent by the author in Far Eastern temples, and describe her religious training and her growth of a Zen priest into a teacher, running her own temple.

Author : Robert Siegel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365291383

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White Whale by Robert Siegel Pdf

WHALESONG introduced Hruna, a humpback whale, in an ecological parable of personal and spiritual growth. Now, in WHITE WHALE, meet Hruna's son, Hralekana, and enter a deep sea world that dazzles and delights... Embarking on the Lonely Cruise, a yearling's rite of passage, Hralekana experiences the adolescent's fear and exhilaration as he sings the Song of the Open Sea. His adventures expose him to dangerous oil spills, frightening visions of the wreck of the Titanic, a kind and ecologically concerned human whom he befriends, and finally, a terrifying encounter with the dark side of humanity... From his carefree childhood to the dramatic challenges of his adulthood, Hralekana's trials, triumphs, and laughter contain lessons on love, nature, and sacrifice, for him and for the rest of us.