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Misrecognitions
Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences. Critics have long decried Victorian recognition scenes—the reunions and retroactive discoveries of identity that too conveniently bring the story to a close—as regrettable contrivances. Ben Parker counters this view by showing how these recognition scenes offer a critique of the social and economic misrecognitions at work in nineteenth-century capitalism. Through a meticulous analysis of novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, as well as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Misrecognitions track...
Prospero's Daughters
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Text, Context and Construction of Identity
Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of construction and dissemination of knowledge, and structures our thought processes in important ways that constitute our identity. In very complex ways, it interacts with the social, political and economic power structures that remain significant in defining the identities of individuals and societies. The essays in this volume create an awareness and understanding about the role of linguistic context in negotiating identity. The book explains identity and the complex relations between language and several aspects of our society. It explores identity through text and context, and will serve to trigger a novel discourse around the centrality of identity in contemporary society.
The Heart of His Mystery
Shakespeare has traditionally been viewed as Queen Elizabeth's 'poet laureate', and as the official mouthpiece of the Elizabethan age. But the Elizabethan world was torn apart by the religious divisions initiated by the Reformation, and vitiated by the government's merciless persecution of Catholics. As it was the victors who wrote the history, the English Reformation has been portrayed as a peaceful transition enjoying majority support, when in fact it was nothing of the kind. Elizabeth's regime was a police state which sanctioned the use of torture, where Catholic priests and those who harboured them were liable to summary and bloody execution. The persecution of Catholics was continued by...
Ironies of Faith
In Ironies of Faith, celebrated Dante scholar and translator Anthony Esolen provides a profound meditation upon the use and place of irony in Christian art and in the Christian life. Beginning with an extended analysis of irony as an essentially dramatic device, Esolen explores those manifestations of irony that appear prominently in Christian thinking and art: ironies of time (for Christians believe in divine Providence, but live in a world whose moments pass away); ironies of power (for Christians believe in an almighty God who took on human flesh, and whose "weakness" is stronger than our greatest enemy, death); ironies of love (for man seldom knows whom to love, or how, or even whom it i...
Folk music
Qual a importância de uma nova biografia sobre um dos artistas mais conhecidos e icônicos das últimas décadas? Como ir além dos lugares-comuns e de tudo o que já se sabe sobre o músico que venceu inúmeros Grammys, um Oscar de melhor canção e até mesmo o Nobel de literatura? Como escrever uma biografia sobre Bob Dylan depois de tantas outras? Greil Marcus evita as trivialidades do gênero biográfico para apresentar a vida e a obra de Dylan de uma forma extremamente original. "Escrevo canções, toco no palco e gravo discos. É isso. O resto não é da conta de ninguém", disse Bob Dylan em uma entrevista, em 2001. São centenas de canções, dezenas de álbuns e alguns livros escr...
Cafe Tempest
Cafe Tempest: Adventures on a Small Greek Island is a witty, evocative, beautifully written novel that puts you right in the heart of Greek island life. It's so alive with the sights and smells and tastes and characters of Greece that you can pick it up and start your Mediterranean vacation on page one. On a deeper level, the book is filled with the kinds of observations, reflections, and arc of self-discovery that make Eat, Pray, Love so compelling.
Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry
This volume contains the invited papers and a transcript of the final panel discussion in the First Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (lGAC) Project, held in Eilat, Israel from April 18-22, 1993. The conference was hosted by the Israeli Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) and was the 37th in the prestigious OHOLO Conference series in Israel. The conference was devoted to the subject of "Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry" and was a landmark event in this area. It provided the first comprehensive report of progress under IGAC toward improving our understanding of the chemical and biological processes that determine the changing composition of th...
Nicotina zero
Esta noite, o DJ está de folga. Não fará os corpos despejarem de prazer pelos toques mágicos de seus dedos. Esta noite, não será um deus. Não consegue sequer imaginar uma boa trilha sonora para embalar sua caminhada noturna pelo centro de uma São Paulo. Decide então que esta noite não haverá nem mesmo sexo. Sente que precisa sobreviver a seus 27 anos, idade crítica dos astros suicidas. Talvez esteja na hora de parar de fumar, ao menos para distrair-se de si mesmo. Ter uma boa causa, algo que faça contrair novamente uns músculos para além da euforia da juventude. Num beco, longe de todas as ilusões de neon, encontra um rapaz de preto, que só pode ser o diabo. Mas o diabo existe? E o que lhe ofereceria o diabo numa cidade que dá fácil acesso a toda espécie de prazer? Qual dádiva seria mais desafiadora que a do amor incondicional? O rapaz de preto ri com malícia e encanto diante desse pedido.
