Author: Richie CooleyPublisher: Richie Cooley
ISBN: 1005108595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This booklet examines some interesting snippets from the letters of Jerome, applying them to modern crimes.
Regarding St. Jerome, O.J. Simpson, and the Holocaust
Author: Richie CooleyPublisher: Richie Cooley
ISBN: 1005108595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This booklet examines some interesting snippets from the letters of Jerome, applying them to modern crimes.
The Antichrist, According to Cyril of Jerusalem
Author: Richie CooleyPublisher: Richie Cooley
ISBN: 1005968713
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Cyril delivered a fascinating lecture about Bible prophecy around the middle of the fourth century. Come explore this interesting sermon with me.
Private Needs, Public Selves
Author: John K. RothPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Polls through the '90s show that many Americans believe the nation is in a period of spiritual decline, yet public religious display and discussion often is deemed politically incorrect. Philosopher John K. Roth feels that more outward sharing of religious beliefs, thoughts, and ideas would bridge the gap between our private needs and our public selves--and would give Americans of differing faiths a common identity.
Close Listening
Author: Charles BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as Marjorie Perloff, Susan Stewart, Johanna Drucker, Dennis Tedlock, and Susan Howe, is the first comprehensive introduction to the ways in which twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art. From the performance styles of individual poets and types of poetry to the relation of sound to meaning, from historical and social approaches to poetry readings to new imaginations of prosody, the entries gathered here investigate a compelling range of topics for anyone interested in poetry. Taken together, these essays encourage new forms of "close listenings"--not only to the printed text of poems but also to tapes, performances, and other expressions of the sounded and visualized word. The time is right for such a volume: with readings, spoken word events, and the Web gaining an increasing audience for poetry, Close Listening opens a number of new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry.
All the Whiskey in Heaven
Author: Charles BernsteinPublisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781907773303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein’s best work from the past thirty years, an astonishing assortment of different types of poems. Yet despite the distinctive differences from poem to poem, Bernstein’s characteristic explorations of how language both limits and liberates thought are present throughout. Modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay, these challenging works give way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. This is poetry for poetry’s sake, as formally radical as it is socially engaged, providing equal measures of aesthetic pleasure, hilarity, and philosophical reflection. Long considered one of America’s most inventive and influential contemporary poets, Bernstein reveals himself to be both trickster and charmer.
Holocaust Museum
Author: Robert FittermanPublisher: Counterpath
ISBN: 1933996374
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Holocaust Museum reframes the captions of holocaust photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. These captions—without their photographic images—are arranged loosely in the order or narrative constructed by the museum. There are many purposes to this project but the genesis is in articulating a cultural shift from image to text. The subject, this particular holocaust, was chosen because the images are shared in our collective memory—by presenting only the text, the reader is, hopefully, consigned into a more complicit experience.
Conspiracies of Conspiracies
Author: Thomas Milan KondaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658576X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
It’s tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his unprecedented assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic.
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Author: A View from the Loft
Author: The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Author: Geoffrey Galt HarphamPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226316904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a "discourse of resistance," a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.