Author: Stephen Mulhall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691137377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals.
The Wounded Animal
Author: Stephen Mulhall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691137377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691137377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals.
Philosophy and Animal Life
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231145152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231145152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.
The Dying Animal
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America’s post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America’s post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death.
The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded (Animal Stars, #4)
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730400123
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The famous story of Simpson and his donkey - a true Anzac legend Most Australians know of Simpson and his donkey, who became heroes at Gallipoli, even among the Turkish forces. Few know where the donkey came from, or what happened to him after World War I. Or that another man carried on rescuing the wounded with the donkey after Simpson died. This is the story of a small unassuming donkey. It's also the story of Gallipoli, of Jack Simpson, and New Zealander stretcher-bearer Richard Henderson, who literally took up the reins after Simpson's death. Exhaustively researched, it gives a new depth to our understanding of this story of Anzac heroism. PRAISE FOR JACKIE FRENCH 'Jackie French is excellent at telling history in an exciting way for children' -- Burke's Backyard
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730400123
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The famous story of Simpson and his donkey - a true Anzac legend Most Australians know of Simpson and his donkey, who became heroes at Gallipoli, even among the Turkish forces. Few know where the donkey came from, or what happened to him after World War I. Or that another man carried on rescuing the wounded with the donkey after Simpson died. This is the story of a small unassuming donkey. It's also the story of Gallipoli, of Jack Simpson, and New Zealander stretcher-bearer Richard Henderson, who literally took up the reins after Simpson's death. Exhaustively researched, it gives a new depth to our understanding of this story of Anzac heroism. PRAISE FOR JACKIE FRENCH 'Jackie French is excellent at telling history in an exciting way for children' -- Burke's Backyard
The Donkey who Carried the Wounded
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732288398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
This is the story of a small unassuming donkey. It's also the story of Gallipoli, of Jack Simpson, and New Zealander stretcher-bearer Richard Henderson, who literally took up the reins after Simpson's death. Exhaustively researched, it gives a new depth to our understanding of this story of Anzac heroism.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732288398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
This is the story of a small unassuming donkey. It's also the story of Gallipoli, of Jack Simpson, and New Zealander stretcher-bearer Richard Henderson, who literally took up the reins after Simpson's death. Exhaustively researched, it gives a new depth to our understanding of this story of Anzac heroism.
Combat-Wounded Dogs
Author: Sunita Apte
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597168645
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Provides information about dogs that have played an important role in the military and, like soldiers, have been wounded and yet survived.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597168645
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Provides information about dogs that have played an important role in the military and, like soldiers, have been wounded and yet survived.
The Wounded Wolf
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060219505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
As hungry animals close in on an injured wolf, hoping to feed on him after death, help arrives to change the odds.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060219505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
As hungry animals close in on an injured wolf, hoping to feed on him after death, help arrives to change the odds.
Elephantmen
Author: Richard Starkings
Publisher: Elephantmen
ISBN: 9781607067528
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Collecting issues #40-49 of Image's longest-running Pulp Science Fiction series, Elephantmen, Volume 6 is packed with extras, including the Hip Flask/Strontium Dog crossover by Starkings and Boo Cook, and the Hip Flask/Marineman crossover by Starkings and Ian Churchill"--Publisher description.
Publisher: Elephantmen
ISBN: 9781607067528
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Collecting issues #40-49 of Image's longest-running Pulp Science Fiction series, Elephantmen, Volume 6 is packed with extras, including the Hip Flask/Strontium Dog crossover by Starkings and Boo Cook, and the Hip Flask/Marineman crossover by Starkings and Ian Churchill"--Publisher description.
The Wounded Body
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.
The Wounded Hero
Author: Tamara Neal
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039108794
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039108794
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.