[PDF] The Painful Poignancy Of Desire eBook

Author : Claudia Moscovici
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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The Painful Poignancy of Desire is an introduction to Romantic and Postromantic poetry. Professor Moscovici's exegesis places an emphasis on passion, which is more than merely a romantic theme; passion is the Romantic ethos. Students of literature often wonder why writings from centuries ago are given seemingly permanent places in the canon, and are studied extensively in an undergraduate setting. The Painful Poignancy of Desire addresses contemporary students' desire to know why older works are relevant, and indeed necessary to their lives and study. By presenting aspects of the Romantic and Postromantic movements in poetry, including her own poetry, Professor Moscovici illustrates that these cultural movements are a significant part of history because they illuminate the origins of an individual's pleasures, sense of beauty, and ultimately, our hope. These movements continue to awaken our emotions, imaginations, sensibilities, and creativity. They offer a wealth of riches in literary and human history.

Author : Peter Ells
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1780990189

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Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. Only the mechanisms of physics - forces, electrical charges, and so on - are consequential; nothing else matters. Experiences, such as the taste of honey, feelings, thoughts, choices: everything concerning the mind is an illusion, or is at best a useless and absurd epiphenomenon. This accessible and engagingly-written book is a serious philosophical work, giving solid reasons for rejecting materialism, and proposing an alternative metaphysical framework that is fully consistent with science. In the sensuous cosmos, our essence is that we experience the world in all its exquisite, sensual beauty and unbearable suffering.

Author : Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400857392

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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Stephen Snyder
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824822361

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Stephen Snyder examines Kafu's fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism--at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antithetical development of the modernist reflexive novel.

Author : Duke R Silva
Publisher : Duke R Silva
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
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A story of a female life shattered in dreams and truncated in its animation by the cruel effects of a childhood molestation, whose trail extends rearward to remote peaceable shores of an island itself detached from the modern world, later leaping onward to the latter modern land for the greater aggravation of its psychosomatic behavioral symptoms. It is a piercingly familiar story shared by many a woman, but whose rightful tone and tenor had long been stifled by the same forces that caused its cursed birth upon their chaste innocent lives. This is a female tale that must be heard and shared, so that others suffering from like cause and subsequent symptoms might seek to find soever good a relief, and seek a settled upon closure that would allow for a degree of personal peace and a charitable counsel to a sister whose fortune also had then been turned to fires, then to ashes leading to destructive sufferings in the shadows of all ingrate cynical societies.

Author : TEMPO Publishing
Publisher : Tempo Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 6027186380

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THIS BOOK presents several articles from a process of contemplation on God – while keeping in mind the words of Raimon Panikkar: a discourse on God is a discourse that inevitably only completes itself again “in a new silence”. And so, if the discourse is to continue – which is un-avoidable, and moreover, necessary – and the “new silence” is not or has not yet been achieved, this means one has to try to explore various other already existing contemplations on God and faith. Even though I do not belong to the camp of those who accept Heidegger’s “the God of the philoso-phers”, I think philosophy is necessary to be employed here.

Author : G. S. Rousseau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520910435

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The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in

Author : Molly McCully Brown
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0892555386

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In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body—in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of—indeed, in response to—physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna, Italy. Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the world’s oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human—flawed, potent, feeling.

Author : Rachel Cohon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199268444

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Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. She focuses on two claims: that human beings figure out what is good or evil by using our feelings or emotions, and that some of the good traits we recognize are produced by informal social agreement and teaching.