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Narrative of Suffering: Meaning and Experience in a Transcultural Approach
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume explores how people come to terms with suffering, how they experience the mystery of this human condition, and how future studies can shed some further light on the topic. Various perspectives are represented here, such as the use of narratives to delve into the reality of suffering, the emotional trauma that suffering brings, the narrative process, which manifests phenomenology and intersubjectivity and the emergence of gendered models of suffering. These approaches derive from multiple fields of research, creating a multi-perspectival view of suffering that transcend long-held disciplinary boundaries and stimulate a broader dialogue within contemporary scholarship on suffering-related themes. Such plurality points out that, in the end, despite its negative connotations, suffering positively affects individuals and society as it enables recognition of common bonds that link all people from all nations and all races. Compassion and sympathy leads to a transcendence that this book seeks to highlight.
Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Telling the story of illness emerges from a landscape of pain, grief and loss, but its therapeutic value is indubitable. This volume grapples with the potentials and limitations of such narratives as diverse cultural perceptions and realities are granted the voice to probe into those stories from literary and textual material, as well as empirical, ethnographic, historical, and personal bases. Some of the chapters draw upon the capacity of storytelling to heal bodies and souls, whereas others provide an important corrective to this overwhelmingly optimistic portrayal by focusing on the limits of storytelling and narrative to address physical and psychic trauma. Despite the different approaches, what ties these chapters together is a more focused textual and contextual analysis of the intersection between forms of storytelling and sharing the experience of illness as studied and witnessed and sometimes even lived by the authors of the volume.
Voices of Illness: Negotiating Meaning and Identity
This book is a scholarly collection of interdisciplinary perspectives and practices that examine the positive potential of attending to the voices and stories of those who live and work with illness in real world settings. Its international contributors offer case studies and research projects illustrating how illness can disrupt, highlight and transform themes in personal narratives, forcing the creation of new biographies. As exercises in narrative development and autonomy, the evolving content and expression of illness stories are crucial to our understanding of the lived experience of those confronting life changes. The international contributors to this volume demonstrate the importance of hearing, understanding and effectively liberating voices impacted by illness and change. Contributors include Tineke Abma, Peter Bray, Verusca Calabria, Agnes Elling, Deborah Freedman, Alexandra Fidyk, Justyna Jajszczok, Naomi Krüger, Annie McGregor, Pam Morrison, Miranda Quinney, Yomna Saber, Elena Sharratt, Victorria Simpson-Gervin, Hans T. Sternudd, Mirjam Stuij, Anja Tramper, Alison Ward and Jane Youell.
Filosofia e Teologia
esde a cristandade, desenvolveu-se a visão na qual Filosofia e Teologia estariam em direções distintas, seja em suas motivações seja em suas conclusões. Com o alvorecer da modernidade, no século XVII, a Filosofia ganha uma nova identidade, seja ela qual for, a de ser um instrumento epistemológico de validação do conhecimento científico ora nascente, enquanto a Teologia era legada às discussões enclausuradas das religiões e suas doutrinas. Distante desta visão, com satisfação, apresento este primeiro volume da coletânea "Filosofia e Teologia: novos espaços de diálogo e pesquisa" da Editora Dialética, no qual o leitor logo perceberá que a intenção é inversa à realidade descrita acima e entenderá que mais que ser um livro de excelentes textos, este é um livro de excelentes textos de Filosofia e Teologia que dialogam entre si e trazem uma nova perspectiva acerca das pesquisas nas áreas, os quais apresento aqui.
Transfigurations
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
Il libro dei personaggi letterari. Dal dopoguerra a oggi. Da Lolita a Montalbano, da Gabriella a Harry Potter
Zivago, il principe di Salina, Dona Flor, Zuckerman... Non esistono grandi storie senza grandi personaggi, e i personaggi letterari a loro volta sono gli speciali compagni di viaggio che portiamo con noi per una vita intera. Fabio Stassi ci regala un'imperdibile galleria dei più grandi eroi letterari dal dopoguerra a oggi, dando una nuova voce ai protagonisti dei romanzi più amati, che in queste pagine prendono magicamente la parola per presentarsi al lettore. Un coro di narrazioni, una partitura inedita, una mappa per ritrovare i nostri personaggi preferiti o per incontrarne di nuovi, facendoci conquistare dalla fantasia di uno dei più talentuosi narratori italiani. Marcovaldo • Holly Golightly • Malaussène • Zorba • Stoner • Zazie • Barney Panofsky • Olive Kitteridge • Limonov • Gugliemo da Baskerville • Palomar • Pereira • Evita • Pepe Carvalho • Herzog • Aureliano Buendía e tanti altri...
The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction
Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.
Mesopotamia Before History
Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c. 100,000 BC to 2334 BC. The narrative is supplemented by numerous descriptions of the principal archaeological sites for each phase, and by conclusions outlining the most important developments and changes.
