Author: A. Yeow
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583288
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.
Conrad's Eastern Vision
Author: A. Yeow
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583288
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583288
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.
Contending Visions of the Middle East
Author: Zachary Lockman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521115876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521115876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
Author: Elisabeth Tooker
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This work makes available for the first time in a single volume a representative collection of the major spiritual texts from the Native American Indian peoples of the East Coast. Elisabeth Tooker, professor of anthropology at Temple University and and editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, presents the sacred traditions of the Iroquois, Winnibego, Fox, Menominee, Delaware, Cherokee and others. Included here are cosmological myths, thanksgiving addresses, dreams and visions, speeches of the shamans, teachings of parents, puberty fasts, blessings, healing rites, stories, songs, ceremonials for fires, hunting wars, feasts and the rituals of various spiritual societies.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This work makes available for the first time in a single volume a representative collection of the major spiritual texts from the Native American Indian peoples of the East Coast. Elisabeth Tooker, professor of anthropology at Temple University and and editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, presents the sacred traditions of the Iroquois, Winnibego, Fox, Menominee, Delaware, Cherokee and others. Included here are cosmological myths, thanksgiving addresses, dreams and visions, speeches of the shamans, teachings of parents, puberty fasts, blessings, healing rites, stories, songs, ceremonials for fires, hunting wars, feasts and the rituals of various spiritual societies.
A New Vision of Reality
Author: Bede Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The author invites us to look afresh at Christianity in the context of modern physics on the one hand and Eastern mysticism on the other. Scientists now acknowledge that quantitative enquiry can reveal only one aspect of reality and to come to terms with a much deeper transcendent reality we must also be prepared to learn from Eastern traditions. The Western machanistic model of the universe, dating from the time of Galileo and Newton, must now be replaced with a new organic model -- this marks a return to the ancient traditional wisdom in which the universe was seen to consist not only of a physical dimension but also of psychological and spiritual dimensions, all of which are interrelated and interdependent. In exploring "the divine mystery behind human life" the author seeks to discover the basic unity which underlies all religion and discusses the concept of the Cosmic Person or Cosmic Lord as revealed in Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. He concludes that a radical vision of a new society and a universal religion in which "the essential values of Christianity will be preserved in living relationship with the other religious traditions of the world."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The author invites us to look afresh at Christianity in the context of modern physics on the one hand and Eastern mysticism on the other. Scientists now acknowledge that quantitative enquiry can reveal only one aspect of reality and to come to terms with a much deeper transcendent reality we must also be prepared to learn from Eastern traditions. The Western machanistic model of the universe, dating from the time of Galileo and Newton, must now be replaced with a new organic model -- this marks a return to the ancient traditional wisdom in which the universe was seen to consist not only of a physical dimension but also of psychological and spiritual dimensions, all of which are interrelated and interdependent. In exploring "the divine mystery behind human life" the author seeks to discover the basic unity which underlies all religion and discusses the concept of the Cosmic Person or Cosmic Lord as revealed in Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. He concludes that a radical vision of a new society and a universal religion in which "the essential values of Christianity will be preserved in living relationship with the other religious traditions of the world."
The Residue of Dreams
Author: Tsung-I Jao
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1942242824
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1942242824
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Preserving Western History
Author: Andrew Gulliford
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826333100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826333100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.
Eastern Voyages, Western Visions
Author: Margaret Topping
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039101832
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the range of French and francophone encounters with the East from the medieval period to the present day. --book cover.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039101832
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the range of French and francophone encounters with the East from the medieval period to the present day. --book cover.
Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes
Author: Donald Fairbairn
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664224974
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the last decade, Eastern Orthodoxy has moved from being virtually unknown to Western Christians to being a significant presence on the religious scene in North America and Great Britain. In light of Orthodoxy's growing presence, this book will introduce Western Christians to the Eastern Orthodox vision of the Christian life by examining Orthodox theology and worship and will also alert readers to the cultural and historical factors that shape any interpretation of the Christian faith.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664224974
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the last decade, Eastern Orthodoxy has moved from being virtually unknown to Western Christians to being a significant presence on the religious scene in North America and Great Britain. In light of Orthodoxy's growing presence, this book will introduce Western Christians to the Eastern Orthodox vision of the Christian life by examining Orthodox theology and worship and will also alert readers to the cultural and historical factors that shape any interpretation of the Christian faith.
From Gender to Nation
Author: Julie Mostov
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 8194721849
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The essays in the volume consider the significance of nation and gender in the context of post-1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post-partition India. The texts critique the ways in which narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy. The authors explore uses of sexualized/gendered imagery in defining the space of the nation and sexualized/gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. of the nation (e.g. feminized landscapes and battlefields) and sexualized /gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. The particular histories of nationalism and partition are different in the countries involved, but commonalities in the narrative structures, state ad nation-building strategies, patriarchal patterns of control, and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are striking. This is particularly so with respect to the ways in which exclusive national identities are constituted through gendered representations of the nation and its members.
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 8194721849
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The essays in the volume consider the significance of nation and gender in the context of post-1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post-partition India. The texts critique the ways in which narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy. The authors explore uses of sexualized/gendered imagery in defining the space of the nation and sexualized/gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. of the nation (e.g. feminized landscapes and battlefields) and sexualized /gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. The particular histories of nationalism and partition are different in the countries involved, but commonalities in the narrative structures, state ad nation-building strategies, patriarchal patterns of control, and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are striking. This is particularly so with respect to the ways in which exclusive national identities are constituted through gendered representations of the nation and its members.
Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception
Author: John G. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703485X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703485X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.