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Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1986
ISBN 10 : 0374210330
Pages : 151 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (21 users)
Download Mishima PDF Full or another Format written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-09
ISBN 10 : 0226965325
Pages : 174 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (965 users)
Download Mishima PDF Full or another Format written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wholphin No 10 includes a heartbreaking, must-see Jonathan Demme documentary on a proud New Orleans couple coming to terms with their post-Katrina loss; Natalie Portman's touching directorial debut, "Eve," starring Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirlby; a surreal homage to a 1960s Christian television show for kids starring Todd Haynes; an unbelievable documentary about a Pentecostal minister who gets word from God that he will become the "Rolls Royce" of filmmaking; award-winning animation; films from Australia, Canada and Singapore; and much more.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2015-03-13
ISBN 10 : 9781410321282
Pages : 15 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (41 users)
Download A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves PDF Full or another Format written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-10-09
ISBN 10 : 9780429763540
Pages : 150 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (429 users)
Download A Philosophy of Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Aakash Singh Rathore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi), as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar, Pawar, Angelou, Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies, the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body, a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages, with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh, spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Waiting for a Visa, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Moveable Feast, Night, Baluta, My Story, Sun and Steel, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid, bold and authoritative, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, gender studies, political philosophy, media and popular culture, social exclusion, and race and discrimination studies.
Author : Josyane Savigneau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-10
ISBN 10 : 0226735443
Pages : 578 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (735 users)
Download Marguerite Yourcenar PDF Full or another Format written by Josyane Savigneau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.
Author : Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 9780815410744
Pages : 353 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (815 users)
Download The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima PDF Full or another Format written by Henry Scott Stokes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive biography begins with the spectacularly tragic last day of the militant Japanese novelist, perhaps best known for his monumental four-book masterpiece The Sea of Fertility.
Author : John Chambers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-06-25
ISBN 10 : 9781594779268
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (594 users)
Download The Secret Life of Genius PDF Full or another Format written by John Chambers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the metaphysical experiences that shaped the lives and work of 24 great men and women from the Renaissance to modern times • Chronicles the changing relationship with God, nature, and spirituality from the 16th century to the 20th century • Includes encounters with the paranormal of Ben Johnson, Isaac Newton, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Doris Lessing, and Winston Churchill What role did the esoteric thought of Swedenborg play in the creative output of Honoré de Balzac? Did a supernatural encounter prompt Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to focus her work on the theme of immortality? Building on his earlier research on communications with the spirit world that Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, experienced while in exile on the isle of Jersey, John Chambers now looks at the role occult knowledge and supernatural experiences played in the lives of 24 geniuses. His investigation spans the life and work of William Blake, Helena Blavatsky, and W. B. Yeats, whose esoteric interests are well known, as well as those little suspected of such encounters with worlds beyond ours, including Doris Lessing, Leo Tolstoy, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, and Winston Churchill. Chambers presents more than a collection of anecdotes and newly revealed secrets. His research provides insightful historical context of the decisive turning point that took place with the collapse of Prague, the occult capital of Europe, in 1620, which resulted in the victory of Cartesian reality and Newton’s scientific paradigm over the esoteric traditions that flourished until that time. The magical and occult world shown in the lives of these 24 great men and women offers us a glimpse of what could still be ours--a world that though it is now overshadowed by modern scientific and technological principles is yet still visible on the horizon through the visions and paranormal experiences of these geniuses.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016-07-14
ISBN 10 : 9781410346391
Pages : 18 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (41 users)
Download A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's "Fountains in the Rain" PDF Full or another Format written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's "Fountains in the Rain," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Barbara Stoler Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-16
ISBN 10 : 9781315484594
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (315 users)
Download Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching PDF Full or another Format written by Barbara Stoler Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.
Author : Patrick M. O'Neil
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0761474757
Pages : 148 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (474 users)
Download Great World Writers PDF Full or another Format written by Patrick M. O'Neil and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works.
Author : Ian Repath
Publisher : Barkhuis
Release Date : 2019-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9789492444943
Pages : 412 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (492 users)
Download Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern: Gathered and originally presented as a book for John PDF Full or another Format written by Ian Repath and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in honour of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral researchers who have worked with and been influenced by him during his 40 years in Swansea, up to and beyond his retirement in 2015. It is designed to reflect the esteem and affection in which the honorand is held, as teacher, supervisor, colleague, and friend. All the contributions reflect John Morgan's interests, with a particular focus on narrative, which has always been at the forefront of his teaching and research: he has elucidated the forms, structures, strategies, and functions of numerous ancient narratives, especially fictional, in a voluminous body of scholarship. The contributors consider a wide range of narratives, extending from those which show the influence of older stories on the beginnings of ancient Greek civilisation, through various narrative genres in different periods of antiquity, and up to later eras when the impact of Greek and Roman learning, stories, and ideas has been felt. The core of this volume contains discussions of narratives from the Roman imperial period, since this is the area to which the majority of John Morgan's work has been devoted and where his research has seen him become a world-leader in the study of the ancient Greek novel. Several of the contributions, at various stages of development, were delivered and discussed at gatherings organised under the aegis of KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World, which was established at Swansea in 2004 at John Morgan's initiative.
Author : Carlo Testa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0802084753
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (84 users)
Download Masters of Two Arts PDF Full or another Format written by Carlo Testa and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Testa demonstrates that while pairings of famed directors and writers are commonplace in modern Italian cinema, the study of the interrelation between Italian cinema and European literature has been almost completely neglected in film scholarship.
Author : Costică Brădățan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-03
ISBN 10 : 9780674970472
Pages : 289 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (674 users)
Download In Praise of Failure PDF Full or another Format written by Costică Brădățan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure.
Author : John Marmysz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9780791486283
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (791 users)
Download Laughing at Nothing PDF Full or another Format written by John Marmysz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair, but can be responded to positively.
Author : Nina Cornyetz
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-22
ISBN 10 : 9781135985134
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (135 users)
Download The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Nina Cornyetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese canon, for instance works by Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kôbô and Shinoda Masahiro, all renowned for their texts' aesthetic and philosophic brilliance. Cornyetz uniquely opens up the field in a fresh and controversial way by showing how these authors and filmmakers' concepts of beauty and relation to others were, in fact, deeply impacted by political and social factors. Probing questions are asked such as: How did Japanese fascism and imperialism ideologically, politically and aesthetically impact on these literary/cinematic giants? How did the emperor as the 'nodal point' for Japanese national identity affect their ethics? What were the repercussions of the virtual collapse of the Marxist movement in the 1960s? What are the similarities and differences between pre-war, wartime and post-war ideals of beauty and those of fascist aesthetics in general? This ground-breaking work is truly interdisciplinary and will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese literature, film, gender, culture, history and even psychoanalytic theory.
Author : Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-06
ISBN 10 : 9781527505179
Pages : 440 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (527 users)
Download Varian Studies Volume Three PDF Full or another Format written by Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heliogabalus and Elagabalus are names given since late antiquity to the mythical or legendary avatar of Varius Avitus Bassianus. Varius was Roman emperor AD 218–222, ruling as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He was simultaneously High Priest of the Syrian sun god Elagabal. Heliogabalus and Elagabalus, names derived from Elagabal, are often used as misnomers for Varius himself, but more properly designate his avatar, who is far better known than Varius. The Varian avatar, under these and other names, survives and thrives in historiography, as well as in more avowedly creative literature, music, dance, the visual arts, and popular culture. This book, the third in Varian Studies, is partly based on the Varian Symposium, held in Cambridge in 2005. It contains studies of the historical Varius, of some of his courtiers, of his god Elagabal, and of his avatar, Heliogabalus or Elagabalus.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
ISBN 10 : 9781438140643
Pages : 2146 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (438 users)
Download Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.
