[PDF] The Transfiguring Places eBook

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674903463

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Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.

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Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9351182452

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The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveler includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular.

Author : Peter S. Hawkins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804737012

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Exploring Dante's reading and how he transformed what he found, this book argues that the independence and strength of Dante's poetic stance stems from deep and sustained experience of Christian scriptures.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0262538490

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An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanisław Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. At first the asylum seems like a bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begins to seek relief in the strange conversation of the poet Sekulowski, who is posing as a patient in a bid for safety from the occupying German forces. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters stockpile weapons in the surrounding woods. A very early work by Lem, The Hospital of the Transfiguration is partly autobiographical, drawing on the author's experiences as a medical student. Written in 1948, it was suppressed by Polish censors and not published until 1955. The censorship of this realist novel is partly what led Lem to focus on science fiction and nonfiction for the rest of his career.

Author : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231128100

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Annotation This volume surveys 200 years of Indian literature in English. Written by Indian scholars and critics, many of the 24 contributions examine the work of individual authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie. Others consider a particular genre, such as post-independence poetry or drama. The volume is illustrated with b&w photographs of writers along with drawings and popular prints. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Gerald Elias
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312678355

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When an aspiring concertmaster commits suicide after being summarily dismissed by the tyrannical conductor of a world-famous touring orchestra, blind violin teacher Daniel, who shunned the victim's earlier plea for help, investigates allegations about the conductor's harassment.

Author : A. Mehrotra
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230228528

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The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, including in its scope canonical poets and novelists, social reformers (Behramji Malabari), anthropologists (Verrier Elwin), nature writers (Sálim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta).

Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814685374

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2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Mysticism In A World Transfigured: The Mystical Journey, Philip Sheldrake demonstrates the importance of the mystical dimension of religious belief and practice. Using the words of the great theologian, Karl Rahner, Sheldrake makes the case that the Christian of the future will be either a mystic or nothing at all. In our contemporary world, this judgment applies equally to other religions as well. After chapters on the meaning of “mysticism” and the connection between mysticism and beliefs, Sheldrake describes important dimensions of mystical writings, illustrated by a range of examples. These are “Love and Desire,” “Knowing and Unknowing,” “Wonder and Beauty,” “Mysticism and Everyday Practice,” and “The Mystic as Radical Prophet.” Finally, the book briefly explores why mysticism fascinates so many people in our modern times.