[PDF] Fate And Freedom In The Novels Of David Adams Richards eBook

Author : Sara MacDonald
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498528716

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This book explores the understanding of freedom developed in the later novels of celebrated Canadian author, David Adams Richards. Many reviewers highlight two interconnected features in Richards novels: a seemingly rigid determinism of setting and sociodemographics, and a resulting hopelessness. In contrast, Richards describes the quest of human life and the purpose of his novels as a search for freedom. This book explores the account of freedom that is developed through the course of four of Richards’s works: The Friends of Meager Fortune, Mercy Among the Children, The Lost Highway, and Crimes Against My Brother. Following the Augustinian thread that informs Richards’s writing, we argue that rather than presenting an understanding of human life that is bleak or hopeless, Richards instead reveals an argument wherein one’s happiness and freedom is found in the midst of love.

Author : Sara MacDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498555179

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Both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the Coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decades. Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political arguments. They examine five of the Coen brothers’ comedies: Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou, and Hail Caesar!. In those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the American regime. They demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the Coens draw on thinkers such as Homer, Plato, Dante, and Hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainment.

Author : Lee Trepanier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100085888X

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This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.

Author : K. I. Knight
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781733807715

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The conclusion of the international award-winning historical series, Fate & Freedom.

Author : Henry Norris Russell
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781436679725

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Michael Anthony Tremblay
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1442610778

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In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay sheds light not only on Richards' art and achievements, but also on Canadian literary criticism in general.

Author : Ingrid Betancourt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143109960

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From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world’s most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End, draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Buenos Aires, the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift, precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do so—otherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Perón, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. . . . In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving.

Author : Robert Lecker
Publisher : Canadian Writers and Their Wor
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A study of the Canadian fiction writers Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, W.P. Kinsella, and David Adams Richards.

Author : Jan H. Blits
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780847677603

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While recent criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic's enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime's leading defenders, particularly Brutus.