[PDF] Notes From The Underworld eBook

Author : Stefano Corbo
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764358401

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Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life--and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at old and new subterranean structures from an architect's perspective, this seminal book examines the underworld through the lenses of wartime, life and death, religious and secular rituals, and adaptive reuse. The atlas of 80+ international projects range widely in time period and type, from a house in a defunct nuclear silo to an Arctic seed bank, a Beirut nightclub, art venues, an Italian winery, and a monastery carved into a mountain. All are surprising examples of how invisible manmade spaces follow the same cultural and economic cues as their visible counterparts and are places where we store, hide, repress, and live.

Author : Candace Waid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807843024

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Provides examinations and interpretations of several works by Wharton, and concentrates on the theme of women as artist

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781543149746

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Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365147371

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Is Russia So Different Now, 150 Years Later? Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done'. The second part of the book is called ""Apropos of the Wet Snow,"" and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero. Get Your Copy Now."

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
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ISBN : 9781518646591

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Notes from the Underground, or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator. This book, Notes from the Underground, was translated by Constance Garnett in 1918 and originally published in the book titled White Nights and Other Stories in 1918 by Heinemann: London.

Author : David Saunders
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606067494

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Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them. What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peoples engaged with Greek beliefs. Monumental funerary vases that accompanied the deceased were decorated with consolatory scenes from myth, and around forty preserve elaborate depictions of Hades’s domain. For the first time in over four decades, these compelling vase paintings are brought together in one volume, with detailed commentaries and ample illustrations. The catalogue is accompanied by a series of essays by leading experts in the field, which provides a framework for understanding these intriguing scenes and their contexts. Topics include attitudes toward the afterlife in Greek ritual and myth, inscriptions on leaves of gold that provided guidance for the deceased, funerary practices and religious beliefs in Apulia, and the importance accorded to Orpheus and Dionysos. Drawing from a variety of textual and archaeological sources, this volume is an essential source for anyone interested in religion and belief in the ancient Mediterranean.