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Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Includes music.
ALL FOR YOU
Author: Robert VelvesPublisher: Robert S. Velves
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The mysterious disappearance of Brecht leaves his loved ones desperate for answers. With bloodstained walls but no trace of his body, the possibility of his survival lingers in their hearts. As his pregnant girlfriend, sister, son, and friends unite in their search, they stumble upon a shocking revelation: Brecht was not only an enigmatic individual, but also a prolific author. His books serve as glimpses into his own life, drawing the search party deeper into his world. Yet their efforts to retrace his steps through the settings of his novels prove futile, until a cryptic collection of poems is unearthed, presenting them with an intricate puzzle to solve. Just as their hopes are reignited, a grisly discovery halts their search: Brecht's mutilated remains resurface. Amidst this harrowing investigation, Briella, Brecht's girlfriend, grapples with an escalating terror at her workplace. Employees are being mercilessly targeted, and the neighborhood surrounding the company is plagued by a series of murders. Bureau agents, delving into the burgeoning case, uncover a shocking truth: there is a massive fraudulent scheme unfolding within Briella's company, implicating Brecht. However, disbelief clouds their judgment, as Brecht has long been declared bankrupt. As the boundaries between truth and fiction blur, the search for Brecht takes on new dimensions, propelling all involved into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, where the ultimate price may be more than they ever imagined.
The Unitarian
Author: Jabez Thomas SunderlandPublisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Poems of Religious Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel and Aspiration
Author: American Elegy
Author: Max CavitchPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452909180
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sab and Autobiography
Author: Gertrudis AvellanedaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292792174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
“The first English translation of the major work of a privileged, unconventional, and somewhat neglected Cuban author.” —Choice Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab’s theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914, seventy-three years after its original 1841 publication in Spain. Also included in the volume is Avellaneda’s Autobiography (1839), whose portrait of an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions of her era amplifies the novel's exploration of the patriarchal oppression of minorities and women. “A worthy addition to scholarship in Latin American studies, useful in comparative literature and social history courses covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jorge Isaacs, Alejo Carpentier, or Ramon del Valle-Inclán.” —Choice
Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance
Author: Jessica FayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192548166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806 and 1822 provided extensive details of the routines, structures, landscapes, and architecture of the medieval monastic system. In addition to offering a new way of thinking about religious dimensions of Wordsworth's work and his views on Roman Catholicism, the book offers original insights into a range of important issues in his poetry and prose, including the historical resonances of the landscape, local attachment and memorialization, gardening and cultivation, Quakerism and silence, solitude and community, pastoral retreat and national identity. Wordsworth's interest in monastic history helps explain significant stylistic developments in his writing. In this often-neglected phase of his career, Wordsworth undertakes a series of generic experiments in order to craft poems capable of reformulating and refining taste; he adapts popular narrative forms and challenges pastoral conventions, creating difficult, austere poetry that, he hopes, will encourage contemplation and subdue readers' appetites for exciting narrative action. This book thus argues for the significance and innovative qualities of some of Wordsworth's most marginalized writings. It grants poems such as The White Doe of Rylstone, The Excursion, and Ecclesiastical Sketches the centrality Wordsworth believed they deserved, and reveals how Wordsworth's engagement with the monastic history of his local region inflected his radical strategies for the creation of taste.
Poems of Religious Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel and Aspiration. Selected by F. J. Child
Author: Francis James ChildThoughts on Religious Experience
Author: Archibald AlexanderPublisher:
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Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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Author: Joseph Denham Smith