Journeys Toward The Absurd
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Journeys Toward The Absurd
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Author : Louisa Galt Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Journeys Toward The Absurd written by Louisa Galt Fitzgerald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
A Journey To Absurdity An Existentialist Reading Of Jack Kerouac S On The Road
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Author : Aaron Eisenreich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
A Journey To Absurdity An Existentialist Reading Of Jack Kerouac S On The Road written by Aaron Eisenreich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Reflective Journey Toward Order
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Author : Marion Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1973
The Reflective Journey Toward Order written by Marion Montgomery and has been published by Athens : University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Literary Criticism categories.
Journey To The Well
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Author : Vashti M. McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-04-29
Journey To The Well written by Vashti M. McKenzie and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-29 with Religion categories.
In the tradition of empowering spiritual writers such as Ilanya Vanzant, Bishop Vashti McKenzie offers women a Christian path to personal transformation. A groundbreaking preacher who, in 2000, became the first woman to serve as bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop McKenzie is renowned for her eloquence and passion in the pulpit. Now she brings her inspirational message to readers through the biblical story of the meeting at the well between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. In twelve lessons, McKenzie interweaves the Samaritan woman's experiences with contemporary personal stories, Bible quotations, life-affirming sayings, and meditational activities. Through them she shows women that if they hold onto hope and listen for their moments of epiphany, they can accomplish anything.
John Whiting The Agony Of The Absurd
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Author : Dr. Apeksha
language : en
Publisher: Kripa Drishti Publications
Release Date : 2021-01-15
John Whiting The Agony Of The Absurd written by Dr. Apeksha and has been published by Kripa Drishti Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
This book is a complete and comprehensive projection of John Whiting as an absurdist playwright. It is a round and unvarnished story of a prodigious playwright who within a short span of his life, did much to outshine his contemporaries. His journey was not limited to stage and theatre. He also wrote for the films, television and even radio. The journey began with The Conditions of Agreement in 1946 and ended with The Devils in 1961. In between he wrote many landmark plays through which one can trace the evolutionary trajectory of a legend in the making who was a confluence of mind and mystery, love and revenge, sentimentality and blood lust. His plays are replete with sin and sleaze, callousness and collusion. This was because in Whiting, one also comes across the diminution of norms owning to ethical elasticity and dispensability of principles. In his plays the pathology of power is matched by the ethos of human failings as is exemplified by the rise and fall of Grandier in The Devils. Here the banality of power fails to keep distance between pretense and principles. Bereft of the romance of renewal and predictability, many of his plays end up on disjointed note in the best tradition of the theatre of the absurd. The playwright's obsession with pre-mediated violence creates a disconnect between storyline and characterization. In practically every plays of Whiting creates a heady cocktail of fear, violence, loathing and paranoia and yet they make for a compelling reading. This book is a summary of my findings regarding John Whiting with terse comments on his qualities as an absurdist playwright. It has been my endeavor to assess him both as a literary figure and a playwright, wedded to the absurdist tradition.
Growing Up Existentially
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Author : Ronald J Manheimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Growing Up Existentially written by Ronald J Manheimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophy professor and gerontology expert Dr. Ronald Manheimer's personal take on how philosophy and life experiences intersect and interact, explained through his "Twelve Stars" of existentialism.
Jones S Journey To Paris Supposedly Written By John Jones
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Author : John Jones (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Jones S Journey To Paris Supposedly Written By John Jones written by John Jones (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
The Psychology Of Adaptation To Absurdity
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Author : Seymour Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-02-25
The Psychology Of Adaptation To Absurdity written by Seymour Fisher and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Psychology categories.
The major goal of this book is to explore and integrate all that is scientifically known about the utility of magical plans and strategies for coping with life's inevitable absurdities. Make-believe has great adaptive value and helps the average individual to function better in cultures saturated with puzzling contradictions. This book traces the origins of pretending (illusion-construction) and the developmental phases of this skill. Further, it analyzes how parents depend on pretending to secure conformity and self-control from their children. It unravels the ways in which make-believe is utilized to defend against death-anxiety and feelings of fragility. It examines the relationship between pretending and the classical defense mechanisms -- and particularly weighs the evidence bearing on the potential protective power of embracing religious beliefs. Finally, it defines the diverse contributions of make-believe to the construction of the self-concept, the defensive maneuvers typifying psychopathology, and the maintenance of somatic health. In short, this book pulls together a spectrum of scientific information concerning the defensive value of illusory make-believe in coping with those aspects of life -- such as death, loss, suffering, and injustice -- that are experienced as unreasonable and beyond understanding. The volume is unique not only in the breadth of the literature it analyzes but also in demonstrating the contribution of make-believe to both the psychological and somatic aspects of behavior. No previous work has documented in such detail and across so many domains how basic the capacity to engage in make-believe is to human adaptation.
A Study Of Camus Notion Of The Absurd And Its Mythology In Catch 22 And Slaughterhouse Five
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Author : Diana Morna Gerrard Dickson Keegan
language : en
Publisher: ProQuest
Release Date : 2008
A Study Of Camus Notion Of The Absurd And Its Mythology In Catch 22 And Slaughterhouse Five written by Diana Morna Gerrard Dickson Keegan and has been published by ProQuest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Absurd (Philosophy) in literature categories.
The underlying assumption of this thesis is that the absurd is that vision which we might call Albert Camus' "unexpressed philosophy" of the absurd, a "method" he hoped would form a basis of a new metaphysic that most readers will know from his most renowned absurd work, The Myth of Sisyphus . Succinctly, the absurd is a paradox that is created as insatiable human desire for unity, significance and eternal life confronts lucidly the finite nature of human existence in an indifferent universe. The absurd hero engages in this struggle and in spite of insurmountable difficulties finds a way to live within the absurd and, like Sisyphus, decides to defy the gods, reject traditional eternal values and make a meaningless life worth living by making his punishing fate as a human his own. My first objective was to examine Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse-Five as examples of American absurd literature to determine whether the American absurd was unique, and if so how. My research has led me to conclude that all absurd works, even those of the same author, are unique and that it is inappropriate to refer to a body of absurd work. The absurd is varied and ubiquitous, and synonymous with feelings of doubt and alienation that are as old as the human race. For this reason, whether or not a work is absurd is not so much a question of direct authorial influence by one such as Camus as it is a question of the varied expression in works of art of feelings common to all humans who confront their alienation in an indifferent universe they long to call home. Therefore, I find that each American absurd work is unique and that Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five are works of an absurd kind rather than part of a body of work we could call the "American absurd." That said, as I state above, this thesis does follow Camus and uses his definitions of absurd awareness and reasoning as its basis for comparison. In this context, Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five present absurd landscapes that are more Kafkaesque than Camusian in that the second term of Camus' absurd paradox, the indifferent universe, is replaced with institutions that resemble Kafka's unintelligible dysfunctional bureaucracy. What is more, while their temperaments and struggles are different, both Yossarian and Billy Pilgrim make choices which Camus would consider evasions of the absurd, and forms of philosophical suicide. Therefore, as compared to Camus' Caligula and The Stranger and their principal characters, Caligula (an inexperienced absurd hero) and Meursault (an absurd hero par excellence), this thesis finds that Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five present Kafkaesque landscapes and principal characters who evade the absurdity the landscape presents. My second objective was to determine whether the novels examined refer to one or more traditional myths as a background--a form of subterranean leitmotif--to a foreground narrative that exposes and reconstructs the traditional myth through a process of negation. Specifically, the second objective was to discover whether the American absurd could be considered a body of mythology for modern American times. For mythology, I draw on Mircea Eliade who tells us that myths embody the ideals of society and that in the literate world the written word replaces the spoken word, and that reading and writing are akin to the witnessing of or enactment of a rite. It follows that modern myths embody the ideals of modern society and I suggest that absurd myths embody the absurd ideal, a dystopia, a world stripped of the illusions of human significance and eternal life given by what Camus refers to as "eternal values." Absurd mythology, as understood in this thesis, tells a tale of a coming-of-age journey in which maturity is acceptance that a life worth living is that lived within the absurd. As we read the tale, we embark on a metaphysical ritual journey and can accept or reject the author's vision of the world and our relationship to it. When, then, is a novel mythological in nature? The novel that is mythological in nature takes disordered experience and rearranges it into a coherent picture, that may be one of incoherence, as it takes us on a journey akin to a rite of passage through three classic stages: separation from the routine, transformation in a "time out of time," and a reconciliation in an enhanced new understanding of life. All three novels that are discussed in this thesis take us on such a journey: The Stranger offers a solution in the absurd; Catch-22 the option of escape from it; and, Slaughterhouse-Five an illusion with which to replace it.
The New Time Travelers A Journey To The Frontiers Of Physics
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Author : David Toomey
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-14
The New Time Travelers A Journey To The Frontiers Of Physics written by David Toomey and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Science categories.
The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.