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Visions Of A Madman
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Author : P. h
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-06-19
Visions Of A Madman written by P. h and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-19 with categories.
pgh, now 74, was once compared to Ken Kesey and Kurt Vonnegut in a college textbook on Abnormal Psychology (1972) as having similar but false views of insanity and the insane citing his poem, SELF-KNOWLEDGE: SELF-KNOWLEDGE We are the aged forbidden to pass among the young? we are the deceivers caged in by the righteous; we are the insane walled in by the sane. You, You are the young, the righteous, the sane, If by some quirk you must enter our colony, we will accept you, For we are the aged, we are the deceivers, we are the insane and know full well who we are pgh 1972
Diary Of A Madman And Other Stories
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Author : Lu Xun
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Diary Of A Madman And Other Stories written by Lu Xun and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Fiction categories.
"Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor of the modern Chinese short story, Lu Xun is universally regarded as twentieth century China’s greatest writer. This long awaited volume presents new translations of all Lu Xun’s stories, including his first, “Remembrances of the Past,” written in classical Chinese. These new renderings faithfully convey both the brilliant style and the pungent expression for which Lu Xun is famous. Also included are a substantial introduction by the translator and sufficient annotation to make the stories fully accessible, enabling readers approaching Lu Xun for the first time to appreciate why these stories occupy a permanent place not only in Chinese literature but in world literature as well.
The Symbolist Movement In Literature
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Author : Arthur Symons
language : en
Publisher: FilRougeViceversa
Release Date : 2021-09-23
The Symbolist Movement In Literature written by Arthur Symons and has been published by FilRougeViceversa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"It is in and through Symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works, and has his being: those ages, moreover, are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it highest." Carlyle Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed to give certain significations, as we have agreed to translate these sounds by those combinations of letters? Symbolism began with the first words uttered by the first man, as he named every living thing; or before them, in heaven, when God named the world into being. And we see, in these beginnings, precisely what Symbolism in literature really is: a form of expression, at the best but approximate, essentially but arbitrary, until it has obtained the force of a convention, for an unseen reality apprehended by the consciousness. It is sometimes permitted to us to hope that our convention is indeed the reflection rather than merely the sign of that unseen reality. We have done much if we have found a recognisable sign.
A Companion To The Literature Of German Expressionism
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Author : Neil H. Donahue
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2005
A Companion To The Literature Of German Expressionism written by Neil H. Donahue and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.
The Madman S Tale
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Author : John Katzenbach
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2004-06-15
The Madman S Tale written by John Katzenbach and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-15 with Fiction categories.
It’s been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Francis’s troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospital’s demise. It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out. The police suspect an inmate, while patients whisper about visions of a white-shrouded “angel.” But the striking and mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling theory—about the grim, telltale “signature” left on the victim’s body, a string of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse. Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment, Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, it’s a story doomed to remain unfinished. Until, like Francis’s long-buried recollections, the killer resurfaces . . . with a vengeance. A tour de force narrative journey through the eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madman’s Tale will keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow show.
Hallucinations Or The Rational History Of Apparitions Visions Dreams Ectasy Magnetism And Somnambulism
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Author : Alexandre Jacques Francois Brierre de Boismont
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Hallucinations Or The Rational History Of Apparitions Visions Dreams Ectasy Magnetism And Somnambulism written by Alexandre Jacques Francois Brierre de Boismont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
The Ethical Challenge Of Auschwitz And Hiroshima
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Author : Darrell J. Fasching
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Ethical Challenge Of Auschwitz And Hiroshima written by Darrell J. Fasching and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Religion categories.
This book addresses the problem of religion, ethics, and public policy in a global technological civilization. It attempts to do what narrative ethicists have said cannot be done--to construct a cross-cultural ethic of human dignity, human rights, and human liberation which respects the diversity of narrative traditions. It seeks to do this without succumbing to either ethical relativism or ethical absolutism. The author confronts directly the dominant narrative of our technological civilization: the Janus-faced myths of "Apocalypse or Utopia." Through this myth, we view technology ambivalently, as both the object of our dread and the source of our hope. The myth thus renders us ethically impotent: the very strength of our literal utopian euphoria sends us careening toward some literal apocalyptic "final solution." The demonic narrative that dominated Auschwitz ("killing in order to heal") is part of this Janus-faced technological mythos that emerged out of Hiroshima. And it is this mythic narrative which underlies and structures much of public policy in our nuclear age. This book proposes a coalition of members of holy communities and secular groups, organized to prevent any future eruptions of the demonic. Its goal is to construct a bridge not only over the abyss between religions, East and West, but also between religious and secular ethics.
Diary Of A Madman
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Author : Lance Arocha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-10
Diary Of A Madman written by Lance Arocha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-10 with Religion categories.
The Madman S Gallery
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Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2023-03-08
The Madman S Gallery written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-08 with Reference categories.
Brought to light from the depths of libraries, museums, dealers, and galleries around the world, these forgotten artistic treasures include portraits of oddballs such as the British explorer with a penchant for riding crocodiles, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he's recognized as the patron saint of airplane passengers. Discover impossible medieval land yachts, floating churches, and eagle-powered airships. Encounter dog-headed holy men, armies of German giants, 18th-century stuntmen, human chessboards, screaming ghost heads, and more marvels of the human imagination. A captivating odditorium of obscure and engaging characters and works, each expertly brought to life by historian and curator of the strange Edward Brooke-Hitching, here is a richly illustrated and entertaining gallery for lovers of outré art and history.
Beckett S Words
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Author : David Kleinberg-Levin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-30
Beckett S Words written by David Kleinberg-Levin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Philosophy categories.
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.