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World Enough Time
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Author : Christian McEwen
language : en
Publisher: Bauhan Pub
Release Date : 2011
World Enough Time written by Christian McEwen and has been published by Bauhan Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
World Enough & Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom from writers ranging from Montaigne to Ralph Waldo Emerson and from Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac to Adrienne Rich, artists and musicians from John Ruskin to Meredith Monk, and myriad psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and scholars. In so doing, she creates a unique combination of history, spirituality, and practical advice about how to incorporate slowness and its benefits into everyday living. In short, it's what she calls “inspiration for the literate reader.” According to McEwen, the nonstop emphasis on productivity that is so prevalent in our society is counterproductive for anyone wanting to be creative. She describes a typical response to the question, “How are you?”, regardless of age, race, class, and gender: “I'm just so busy. Really, I'm crazy-busy,” branding it as a mark of honor. Yet, she continues, “When people are asked where they get their best ideas, again and again they answer, 'In the bathroom,' 'On vacation,' 'Doing nothing.' They begin, in other words, by 'simply being.'” If we slow down, McEwen asserts, we can appreciate Henry David Thoreau's comment that, “A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.” She adds, “Thoreau knew too, what contemporary thinkers are just beginning to understand – that the human mind is not some isolated little manikin inside our heads; rather it is fed and nourished by every sight and smell and sound that we encounter, from the movement of the clouds to the shrill of the birds outside our morning window.” World Enough & Time extols the benefits of observation, conversation, walking, pausing and dreaming within a literary and artistic framework spanning centuries. Among the lessons learned from the great minds are: “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” —Virginia Woolf “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates “Seek society. Keep your friendships in repair. Answer your letters. Meet good-will half way.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “We shared our ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership” —Ann Patchett on her friendship with Lucy Greeley.“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching till it comes to that certainty which it aspires to…” —Mary Oliver “Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos…” —Saul Bellow World Enough & Time is the result of thirty years of thinking, teaching and writing in the midst of a busy world. Turning to stories of the writers and artists she has studied all these years, McEwen finds that “each anecdote is its own parable of truth.”
Worlds Enough
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Author : Elaine Freedgood
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Worlds Enough written by Elaine Freedgood 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 2022-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fiction Now praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds Enough, it was only in the late 1970s that literary critics constructed a prestigious version of British realism, erasing more than a century of controversy about the value of Victorian fiction. Examining criticism of Victorian novels since the 1850s, Freedgood demonstrates that while they were praised for their ability to bring certain social truths to fictional life, these novels were also criticized for their formal failures and compared unfavorably to their French and German counterparts. She analyzes the characteristics of realism—denotation, omniscience, paratext, reference, and ontology—and the politics inherent in them, arguing that if critics displaced the nineteenth-century realist novel as the standard by which others are judged, literary history might be richer. It would allow peripheral literatures and the neglected wisdom of their critics to come fully into view. She concludes by questioning the aesthetic racism built into prevailing ideas about the centrality of realism in the novel, and how those ideas have affected debates about world literature. By re-examining the critical reception of the Victorian novel, Worlds Enough suggests how we can rethink our practices and perceptions about books we think we know.
On Earth We Re Briefly Gorgeous
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Author : Ocean Vuong
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-06-20
On Earth We Re Briefly Gorgeous written by Ocean Vuong and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-20 with Fiction categories.
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION 'A marvel' Marlon James Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuong's shattering coming of age novel. This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his family's struggle to forge a new future. And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dog's life his mother has never known - episodes of bewilderment, fear and passion - all the while moving closer to an unforgettable revelation. 'Reminded me that every word can be an incantation, and that beauty does hard and important work' Rebecca Solnit
World Enough And Space Time
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Author : John Earman
language : en
Publisher: Bradford Books
Release Date : 1992-03-01
World Enough And Space Time written by John Earman and has been published by Bradford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-01 with Science categories.
Newton's Principia introduced conceptions of space and time that launched one of themost famous and sustained debates in the history of physics, a controversy that involves fundamentalconcerns in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and scientific epistemology.This bookintroduces and clarifies the historical and philosophical development of the clash between Newton'sabsolute conception of space and Leibniz's relational one. It separates the issues and provides newperspectives on absolute relational accounts of motion and relational-substantival accounts of theontology of space time.Earman's sustained treatment and imaginative insights raise to a new levelthe debate on these important issues at the boundary of philosophy and physics. He surveys thehistory of the controversy from Newton to Einstein develops the mathematics and physics needed topose the issues in sharp form and provides a persuasive assessment of the philosophical problemsinvolved.Most importantly, Earman revitalizes the connection of the debate to contemporary science.He shows, for example, how concerns raised by Leibniz form the core of ongoing debate on thefoundations of general theory of relativity, moving the discussion into a new and vital arena andintroducing arguments that will be discussed for years to come.John Earman is Professor of Historyand Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. A Bradford Book
World Enough And Time
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Author : Andrea Mudry
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1996-11-12
World Enough And Time written by Andrea Mudry and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This collection features intriguing conversations with women 45 to 55 years of age from various backgrounds across Canada.
Worlds Enough And Time
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Author : Joe Haldeman
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Worlds Enough And Time written by Joe Haldeman and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Fiction categories.
From the author of The Forever War comes the Worlds trilogy finale: the last of humanity faces extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars. The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have become the last refuge of humankind. With the discovery of a possibly habitable planet in a distant star system, ten thousand brave colonists are preparing to depart from New New York aboard the interstellar vessel Newhome. Among them is Marianne O’Hara, who will ultimately control the fate of what remains of the human race. The momentous voyage is plagued from the start by ignorance and sabotage, and by the dark tenets of a nihilistic religion dedicated to ultimate destruction. But despite the many trials and tragedies, the spacefarers—and particularly Marianne and her loved ones—will be forced to endure. There is no turning back once the journey begins . . . for soon there will be nowhere left to return to. With Worlds Enough and Time, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joe Haldeman completes his magnificent story of humankind’s destruction and rebirth, capping off his acclaimed trilogy with a truly transcendent tale of destiny, courage, selflessness, dedication, and the resilience of humankind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Worlds Enough And Time
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Author : Gary Westfahl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-06-30
Worlds Enough And Time written by Gary Westfahl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War. Writers ranging from Dante and Lewis Carroll to Philip K. Dick and Martin Amis have probed into the workings of time, and an overwhelming desire to master time reverberates throughout popular culture. This book considers how imaginative works involving time and time travel reflect ongoing scientific concerns and examine the human condition. The scope of the volume is unusually wide, covering such topics as Dante, the major novels of the 19th century, and stories and films of the 1990s. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography of short stories and novels, films and television programs, and nonfiction works that feature time travel or speculations about time. With a roster of contributors that includes several of the field's major scholars, this book offers many new insights into this fascinating subject.
World Enough And Time
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
World Enough And Time written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Food supply categories.
The World Is Not Enough
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Author : Raymond Benson
language : en
Publisher: Boulevard Books
Release Date : 1999
The World Is Not Enough written by Raymond Benson and has been published by Boulevard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
Pierce Brosnan (Tomorrow Never Dies) as Agent 007 is about to learn that the world is not enough for a twisted mind.Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) unveils his sinister side as the brain-damaged egomaniac who can feel no pain.With Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, and Judi Dench. Directed by Michael Apted. Screenplay by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade with Dana Stevens and Bruce Feirstein. Novelization by acclaimed Bond author Raymond Benson...
World Enough And Time
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Author : Global Possible Conference (1984 : Wye Plantation)
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1986-01-01
World Enough And Time written by Global Possible Conference (1984 : Wye Plantation) and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
How to improve living standards and promote economic growth throughout the world while still maintaining our natural resources and environmental quality.