The Absent City
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The Absent City
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Author : Ricardo Piglia
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-15
The Absent City written by Ricardo Piglia and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-15 with Fiction categories.
DIVEnglish translation of 1992 best-selling fiction novel that explores the nature of totalitarian regimes and life in the aftermath of a long dictatorship./div
City Of The Absent
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Author : Robert W. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Harper
Release Date : 2007-12-01
City Of The Absent written by Robert W. Walker and has been published by Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
La Ciudad Ausente
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Author :
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
La Ciudad Ausente written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Argentina categories.
"The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with cultural and political insights into Argentina's history and contemporary condition in this work." "The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she - the machine - is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives - all part of a detective story, all part of something more - multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself."
Absent Environments
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Author : Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-06-27
Absent Environments written by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-27 with Law categories.
Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such an absence within a system of law and a system of geography which effectively remain closed to environmental considerations. The book looks at Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoiesis. Introducing the key concepts and operations, contextualizing them and opening them up to critical analysis. Indeed, in contrast to most discussions on autopoiesis, it proposes a radically different reading of the theory, in line with critical legal, political, sociological, urban and ecological theories, while drawing from writings by Husserl and Derrida, as well as Latour, Blanchot, Haraway, Agamben and Nancy. It explores a range of topics in the areas of environmental law and urban geography, including: environmental risk, environmental rights, the precautionary principle, intergenerational equity and urban waste discourses on community, nature, science and identity. The author redefines the traditional foundations of environmental law and urban geography and suggests a radical way of dealing with scientific ignorance, cultural differences and environmental degradation within the perceived need for legal delivery of certainty.
The Absent Hand
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Author : Suzannah Lessard
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2020-03-17
The Absent Hand written by Suzannah Lessard and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Social Science categories.
"Of beach plums, ramps, and Ramada Inns: a quietly sensitive eminently sensible consideration of the landscapes of our lives . . . A gift." —Kirkus Reviews Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald’s work and others of Rebecca Solnit’s, but it is Lessard’s singular talent to combine this profound book–length mosaic— a blend of historical travelogue, reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poem—into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings—cities, countryside, and sprawl—exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched.
The Absent One
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Author : Susan L. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
The Absent One written by Susan L. Cole and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death."
Invisible City
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Author : Julia Dahl
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Invisible City written by Julia Dahl and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Fiction categories.
If you enjoyed UNORTHODOX, you will be riveted by Rebekah Roberts . . .'An absolutely crackling, unputdownable mystery. I loved it.' GILLIAN FLYNNFresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community - the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in.Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won't be easy - in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it's clear she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider.Don't miss the whole series: Run You Down and Conviction are available now.
Significant Others
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Author : Armistead Maupin
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Significant Others written by Armistead Maupin and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Fiction categories.
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
Interpreting The City
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Author : Truman Asa Hartshorn
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1992-04-16
Interpreting The City written by Truman Asa Hartshorn and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-16 with Social Science categories.
The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.
The Return Of The Absent Father
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Author : Haim Weiss
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2022-02-25
The Return Of The Absent Father written by Haim Weiss and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with Religion categories.
The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here reveal an additional layer of meaning to the father figure's role within the family structure. By shifting the spotlight from the couple to the drama of the father's relationship with his sons and daughters, they present a more complex tension between mundane domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning represented by the study house. This coauthored book presents a dialogic encounter between Weiss, a scholar of rabbinic literature, and Stav, a scholar of modern Hebrew literary studies. Working together, they have produced a book resonant in its melding of the scholarly norms of rabbinics with a literary interpretation based in feminist and psychoanalytic theory.