Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2018-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0244409005
Sometimes scholars and critics of literature tend to impose a pre-determined theory on their interpretation of subject matter. This book is predicated on a reversal of this trend by letting generalizations follow impressions that a close reading of certain literary texts instill in a reader's mind.
Author : David Ryan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
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ISBN : 9780977696819
Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816518661
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
Author : Kristy Woodson Harvey
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982137754
A 2018 Spring Okra Pick USA TODAY Happy Ever After’s Best Women’s Fiction Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2018 Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List Raleigh News & Observer's “The Best Reads of Summer” Charlotte Observer’s “Summer’s Best Books” New York Live’s “Ashley’s A-List” Pick Leaving fans “practically [begging] for a sequel” (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family. After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane’s world crumbles as her worst nightmare comes true. She can barely climb out of bed, much less summon the strength to be the parent her children deserve. Her mother, Ansley, provides a much-needed respite as she puts her personal life on hold to help Sloane and her grandchildren wade through their new grief-stricken lives. But between caring for her own aging mother, her daughters, and her grandchildren, Ansley’s private worry is that secrets from her past will come to light. But when Sloane’s sisters, Caroline and Emerson, remind Sloane that no matter what, she promised her husband she would carry on for their young sons, Sloane finds the support and courage she needs to chase her biggest dreams—and face her deepest fears. Taking a cue from her middle daughter, Ansley takes her own leap of faith and realizes that, after all this time, she might finally be able to have it all. Harvey’s signature warmth and wit make this a charming and poignant story of first loves, missed opportunities, and second chances and proves that she is "the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author).
Author : Merriam Sarcia Saunders
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1433834235
"Children who get distracted easily will relate to Sadie and will realize they can focus on their positive qualities." —Oregon Coast Youth Book Preview Center Sadie feels like her thoughts are soaring into the clouds and she can’t bring them back down to earth. She has trouble paying attention, which makes keeping track of schoolwork, friends, chores, and everything else really tough. Sometimes she can only focus on her mistakes. When Sadie talks to her parents about her wandering, dreaming mind, they offer a clever plan to help remind Sadie how amazing she is. Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on ADHD, self-esteem, and helping children focus on the positives.
Author : Jan J. Dominique
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813945879
The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering Memory is her elegy for a father and an ode to a beloved, suffering homeland. The book charts the biographical, emotional, and literary journey of a woman moving from one place to another, attempting to return to her craft and put together the pieces of her life in the aftermath of family tragedy. Dominique writes eloquently about love, loss, and traumas both horrifically specific and tragically universal. For readers familiar with Jean Dominique and his life’s work at Radio Haïti, the book offers an intimate perspective on a tale of mythic proportions. For the reading public at large, it offers an approachable and resonant introduction to contemporary Haitian literature, history, and identity.
Author : Eleonore Stump
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191056316
Only the most naïve or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one can. Wandering in Darkness first presents the moral psychology and value theory within which one typical traditional theodicy, namely, that of Thomas Aquinas, is embedded. It explicates Aquinas's account of the good for human beings, including the nature of love and union among persons. Eleonore Stump also makes use of developments in neurobiology and developmental psychology to illuminate the nature of such union. Stump then turns to an examination of narratives. In a methodological section focused on epistemological issues, the book uses recent research involving autism spectrum disorder to argue that some philosophical problems are best considered in the context of narratives. Using the methodology argued for, the book gives detailed, innovative exegeses of the stories of Job, Samson, Abraham and Isaac, and Mary of Bethany. In the context of these stories and against the backdrop of Aquinas's other views, Stump presents Aquinas's own theodicy, and shows that Aquinas's theodicy gives a powerful explanation for God's allowing suffering. She concludes by arguing that this explanation constitutes a consistent and cogent defense for the problem of suffering.
Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811224201
Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”
Author : Michael C. Corballis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 022623861X
Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel?the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity.
Author : J.A. Roberts
Publisher : Tried By Fire Ministry
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Introduction: This is described as the last book of the Pentateuch (or the first five Books of Moses). One put the structure of it as the last three sermons and two prophetic poems about Israel’s future. Moses reflects on the nation’s past mistakes, and urges the people not to repeat those errors when they enter into the Promised Land. Once the Israelites possess Canaan (which is the promise that God made through the Noahic Covenant) it will fulfill God’s promise made to the patriarchs. But if the people fail, and fall back into idolatry rejecting God’s law, they will be exiled. I know the book of Deuteronomy is a book of law. We could look at much of the Books of Moses (from Exodus to Deuteronomy) as the books of law. Deuteronomy (I feel) is different for a few reasons. Firstly, I think it’s a book extremely valuable to our Lord. Jesus quotes from the book of Psalms more than any other book, but the second most quoted book is Deuteronomy. Jesus uses it in several settings, like when He confronts Satan in the wilderness (each quote is taken from this book) in Matthew 4. He uses Deuteronomy to explain the law in a summation in... "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Matthew 22:37 The answer to this being found in Deuteronomy 6:5. He uses this book to cite the Ten Commandments (Multiple times) but one example in... The answer to this being found in Deuteronomy 5:17. He uses this book of Deuteronomy to talk about divorce in... "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother." Mark 10:19 "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:" Matthew 5:31 The answer to this being found in Deuteronomy 24:1-3. He uses it to define church discipline! Answer found in Deuteronomy 19:15. It’s used to explain that man is to fear God (multiple times)... The answer to this found in Deuteronomy 6:13. We are also instructed from this book (and through the mouth of Jesus) to keep God’s Word... The answer to this being found in Deuteronomy 19:16-19. The list could go on. "But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established." Matthew 18:16 "Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:" Matthew 5:33 The point of this book is not to just display the law of God, and show God’s judgement if you don’t obey. No, the point of this book is to point out what every single cult and false religion misses when reading the Bible. This book is to give evidence to where the law of God meets the love of God, and how God is not dictating that man strive for perfectionism, but rather strive for faith in God’s power instead of our own. This book shows the necessity to get off of our own high horse of righteousness, and serve others as the leaders we are suppose to be! The only way to be a Godly leader is by serving others through God’s love alone. May we keep God’s love in mind, as we study this fantastic book of the Old Testament law.
