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Imperfection And Defeat
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Author : Virgil Nemoianu
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Imperfection And Defeat written by Virgil Nemoianu and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that of gleaning the abundance of past existence, the gratuitous and the rejected being placed here on an equal level with the useful and the successful. This provocative and unusual approach is illustrated in chapters that deal with the dialectics between literary writing and such fields as historical writing, or religious discourses, and is also illustrated by the socio-historical development of East-Central Europe.
Imperfection And Defeat
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Author : Virgil Nemoianu
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Imperfection And Defeat written by Virgil Nemoianu and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that of gleaning the abundance of past existence, the gratuitous and the rejected being placed here on an equal level with the useful and the successful.This provocative and unusual approach is illustrated in chapters that deal with the dialectics between literary writing and such fields as historical writing, or religious discourses, and is also illustrated by the socio-historical development of East-Central Europe.
A Victorious Defeat
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Author : Charles Wolcott Balestier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-09
A Victorious Defeat written by Charles Wolcott Balestier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-09 with categories.
Excerpt from A Victorious Defeat: A Romance In the uncertain glory of a failing April day, Owen March stood before a door in the village of Judea, and let fall its knocker. His imagination, which went forward with a vague interest, as he rapped, to meet those with whom the opening of the door would make him acquainted, stood still with a mild shock when no footsteps answered his summons. But he lifted the reclining lamb again quite patiently, and waited once more for a response. As it did not come, he let his eyes wander down the street up which he had just come. It was a thoroughfare full of entertainment for one who saw it for the first time. March regarded it attentively for some minutes, during which he once more caused the little brass figure to make gentle inquiry of the dilatoriness of the house's inmates. When this knock also proved fruitless, he turned his glance toward the garden, endeavoring to bask beneath him in the stingy sunlight. As he looked, he was aware that the solitude was abruptly peopled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Success Of Defeat Classic Reprint
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Author : Maltbie D. Babcock
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21
The Success Of Defeat Classic Reprint written by Maltbie D. Babcock and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with Self-Help categories.
Excerpt from The Success of Defeat To this the added interest of being one of the very few of his public addresses to be had in its entirety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
To Defeat The Ends Of Justice Classic Reprint
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Author : Herbert Compton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-30
To Defeat The Ends Of Justice Classic Reprint written by Herbert Compton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with categories.
Excerpt from To Defeat the Ends of Justice She stood surveying herself critically in her cheval glass and leisurely putting the last touches to her evening toilet. The picture was as charming as man could wish. And of a truth Edith Carew desired to appear very charming this evening to one particular man who was going to escort her to a dance given in honour of their engagement, which had just been announced. It had created the greatest interest amongst her circle of friends. For six months past two brothers - Richard and Robert Fawcitt - had been paying attentions to Miss Carew. Both were devoted admirers, and yet their rivalry had not affected their devotion to one another. It had been predicted their brotherly love could not stand the test, and that they would fall out over her. The prediction proved false. Richard, the elder, when he realised that his brother was the favoured man, accepted the situation. A sigh, a shake of the hand, and "God bless you, Bob," was all that passed between them. And the day after this story opens Richard Fawcitt was starting for a trip to the West Indies, in order that he might forget Edith if he could. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Success Of Defeat
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Author : Maltbie D. Babcock
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-04
The Success Of Defeat written by Maltbie D. Babcock and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Self-Help categories.
Excerpt from The Success of Defeat This Address was first given in the city of Baltimore in 1893, before the Convention of the Maryland Christian Endeavor Union - students and wage-earners, young men and young women. Its issue in printed form in the Report of that Convention, and later as a separate pamphlet, has been so eagerly sought for that for some time it has been entirely unobtainable. This new edition is therefore put forth in further response to the strong demand for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Defeat Of Youth And Other Poems Classic Reprint
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-13
The Defeat Of Youth And Other Poems Classic Reprint written by Aldous Huxley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems The Defeat of Youth 1. Under the Trees. There had been phantoms, pale remembered shapes Of this and this occasion, sisterly In their resemblances, each effigy Crowned with the same bright hair above the nape's White rounded firmness, and each body alert With such swift loveliness, that very rest Seemed a poised movement: ... phantoms that im But a faint influence and could bless or hurt [pressed No more than dreams. And these ghost things were she; For formless still, without identity, Not one she seemed, not clear, but many and dim. One face among the legions of the street, Indifferent mystery, she was for him Something still uncreated, incomplete. II. Bright windy sunshine and the shadow of cloud Quicken the heavy summer to new birth Of life and motion on the drowsing earth; The huge elms stir, till all the air is loud With their awakening from the muffled sleep Of long hot days. And on the wavering line That marks the alternate ebb of shade and shine, Under the trees, a little group is deep In laughing talk. The shadow as it flows Across them dims the lustre of a rose, Quenches the bright clear gold of hair, the green Of a girl's dress, and life seems faint. The light Swings back, and in the rose a fire is seen, Gold hair's aflame and green grows emerald bright. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Defeat Of Varus And The German Frontier Policy Of Augustus Classic Reprint
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Author : William Abbott Oldfather
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-07-29
The Defeat Of Varus And The German Frontier Policy Of Augustus Classic Reprint written by William Abbott Oldfather and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-29 with categories.
Excerpt from The Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus In the first part, which deals with the traditional view, we have gone into some detail in the presentation and criticism of current explanations, with the hope that, as a review of pres ent and past opinion, it may not be without value, even if our new interpretation fail to receive general acceptance. A cer tain amount of repetition in the two parts of the monograph has thus been rendered unavoidable, but though this may at times prove tiresome, it contributes to the clearness of the argu ment, which is, after all, the chief consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Imperfection
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Author : Patrick Grant
language : en
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Release Date : 2012
Imperfection written by Patrick Grant and has been published by Athabasca University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
"... aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection." It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drive us to an unrelenting search for perfection, freedom, and self-determination. The twenty-one brief chapters of Imperfection develop this governing idea as it relates to the present situation of the God debate, modern ethnic conflicts, and the pursuit of freedom in relation to the uncertainties of personal identity and the quest for self-determination.
Optimal Imperfection
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Author : George Downs
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Optimal Imperfection written by George Downs and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Political Science categories.
"Domestic politics matters" has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the past decade, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? In this book, George Downs and David Rocke argue that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties. This impact is due not so much to the errors in judgment these uncertainties can cause as to the strategic and institutional consequences of knowing that such errors are possible. The heart of the book is its formal analysis of how three kinds of domestic uncertainty have shaped international relations through their influence on three very different institutions. One chapter deals with the decision rules that citizens create to cope with uncertainty about the quality of their representation, and how these can lead to the paradoxical "gambling for resurrection" effect. Another chapter describes the extent to which the weak enforcement provisions of GATT can be understood as a mechanism to cope with uncertain but intermittent interest group demands for protection. The third chapter looks at the impact of uncertainty on the creation, survival, and membership of multilateral regulatory institutions, such as the Montreal Protocol and EU, when some states question the capacity of other states to meet their treaty obligations.