Author : Jason Elliot
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312427337
The bestselling author of "An Unexpected Light" conducts a fascinating journey through the cultural and artistic landscape of Iran, both past and present. 15 halftones. Two 16-page photo inserts.
Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1800641613
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotations that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars, examining their relationship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel – both this novel, and the novel form itself. Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors is both a study of George Eliot and a meditation on the textuality of fiction. It is essential reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in Middlemarch.
Author : Jim Ras
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 1980-01-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781643542713
In the Qur'an, Allah has revealed the machinations of the hypocrites, He has unveiled their beliefs, their qualities, and made their goals clear so that the believers can be aware of them. He divided mankind into three groups in the beginning of Surah al-Baqarah: the believer, the disbeliever, and the hypocrite. He mentioned four verses concerning the believers, two verses concerning the disbelievers, and thirteen verses concerning the hypocrites due to their plenitude and the great harm and tribulation they bring to Islam and the Muslims. The harm they cause to Islam is truly severe for they claim to be Muslims, they claim to aid and support Islam, whereas in reality they are its enemies seeking to destroy it from within, covertly spreading their corruption and ignorance such that the unwary thinks that what they are upon is knowledge and right action.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9789774245602
Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life--a writer very like Mahfouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli. Through each vignette--whether of a lifelong friend, a sometime adversary, or a childhood sweetheart--not only is that one character described but much light is thrown on other characters already familiar or yet to be encountered, as well as on the narrator himself, who we come to know well through the mirrors of his world of acquaintances. At the same time, Mirrors also reflects the recent history of Egypt, its political movements, its leaders, its wars, and its peace, all of which affect the lives of friends and enemies and of the narrator himself. As the translator writes in his Introduction, "the narrator's acquaintances from childhood, schooldays, and civil service career take him from the lofty heights of intellectual salons to the seemy squalor of brothels and drug dens; from the dreams of youth and nationalistic ideals to the sobering realities of post-revolutionary society and clashing economic and political values."The apparently simple but penetrating portraits by Seif Wanli add an extra, distinctive dimension to this already intriguing book. They originally appeared with the serialized texts in the television magazine, but were omitted when the book was first published in 1972, and were also omitted when the English translation first appeared in 1977. Now, in this special edition, the pictures and the complete text appear together for the first time.
Author : Tom Cannon
Publisher : Tom Cannon
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category :
ISBN : 0979615909
When you look into the mirror, what kind of person do you see staring back at you? Is it the person in the mirror the kind of person you can be proud of, and that you have always hoped to become, or is it the face of a person who falls consistently short of God’s best intentions? The good news is – you don’t have to dismay, even if the person staring back at you is less than you hoped they would be. If you will turn to Christ, and trust Him to transform your broken, or lacking life today, He will create a ‘new you’ – one that you can be proud of being, and who will become an effective representative for Him. The choice is yours – you can either stay the same, or decide to make the necessary changes to your life, that will result in a lifetime of victory in Him. In Two Faces in the Mirror, Tom Cannon addresses eight (8) major struggles facing modern society, and gives practical, time-tested, biblical solutions to them all. And here’s the best part – if those biblical principles worked for others, they will assuredly work for you. How do we know that’s true? It’s in the Book, and God cannot (and will not) lie. Do you want to become the person God has called you to be? The journey starts now. Buy Two Faces in the Mirror today, and watch your tomorrows be transformed by the power of God.
Author : Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027247056
As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.
Author : Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783631578124
This book deals with the works of Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovenian writer, focusing on his relation to existential, social, and moral reality as reflected in individuals and in society at large. The method of literary analysis shows a surprising harmony between personal confessions and a rich symbolism that reveals the writer's unconditional belief in the power of conscience, strong conviction of the sense of victims and the longing for the triumph of love and justice. A holistic interpretation yields the conclusion that most of Cankar's works are confessions that purport to be true to life. His inclination to self-disclosure in dreams alongside the objective disclosure of imperceptible reality indicates that expressive language and a lyrical style are of vital importance to him.
Author : W. FOWLER (of Exeter.)
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1814
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Stephen N. Grand Ph.D
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1434315398
~High profit for booksellers~ *Healthcare for everybody in America *The crusade on Islamic nations; *The Gods guided Evolution; *Darwins natural selection; *Did God create the devil? *The danger of celibacy; *The end of this World; *Israel and Palestine; *Life after Death; *Sex education; *Terrorism? *Torture? >The answer is here You need to know that Torture is not the solution but the perfect solution is here, in this Worlds best-selling book of AMERICAN HYPOCRISY ~~American diplomacy, American Tragedy~~ Written by Stephen Grand, Ph. D 1-888-280-7715 You need to know that we are almost at the end of our civilization because of the eminent possibility of biological, chemical and or nuclear catastrophe. The Satans sword of terrorism is flying around the Globe at supersonic high speed and nobody can stop it. Nobody can stop the plague of terrorism without creating a New World Order, a World Federation, where all people on Earth will have the same responsibility and the same claim to life, dignity and justice. You already have in your home the Bible, the Koran and/or other Scriptures, which are synchronizing your everyday life with your spiritual world. However in your hometown Library and/or Bookstore you should have also my latest best-selling book of American Hypocrisy ISBN 978-1-4259-9115-9 www.stephenngrand.com Written by Stephen Grand, Ph.D. 1-888-280-7715 You need to read this returnable book in order to know that all people on Earth should have the right to live their lives without fear from poverty, without fear from wars and without fear from terrorism. God gave us a nice planate to live on, but with our nuclear arsenals, wars and terrorist attacks, we are going to destroy it. We are going to eradicate ourselves, the species of Homo-sapiens. However I have a perfect solution and with your help we can demolish the plague of terrorism. For this reason Im urging you to release, buy and sell and more importantly acceptthe solution described in this World's best-selling memento-mori book because it is the only way to achieve world peace, it is the only way to save the human race. Sincerely, Stephen Grand, Ph.D. Tel.: 1-888-280-7715
Author : Clane Hayward
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452125155
This memoir of girlhood among California’s hippie communities is an “offbeat tale of preadolescence [written] with remarkable honesty and respect” (Publishers Weekly). Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday. School was a particularly happy event—it meant a hot lunch and clothes that matched! But Clane’s mother warned her that schools are just zoos run by the government. From a world of complex relationships, uncertain rules, and constant surprises, Clane forged a childhood. She did it sometimes with, sometimes without, her bong-puffing, Buddha-quoting, macrobiotic mother and her wild-haired, redneck father. Hypocrisy of Disco is an honest, direct, and truly unforgettable tale, and a tribute to the resilience of youth.
