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Author | : Wulf Zendik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"A Quest among the bewildered is Wulf Zendik's first full-length work, written at the artistic height of the Beat Generation. More than 40 years later, this tough, witty, semi-autobiographical take on the madness surging through the veins of modern day culture still hits home like a hammer blow--detailing one man's search for Love and integrity in a sea of lies, loneliness and deceit. Written in riveting free-form pose, this is Art on the edge, a live-wire ride into the psyche of a deeply human, deeply humane genius."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Wulf Zendik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"A Quest among the bewildered is Wulf Zendik's first full-length work, written at the artistic height of the Beat Generation. More than 40 years later, this tough, witty, semi-autobiographical take on the madness surging through the veins of modern day culture still hits home like a hammer blow--detailing one man's search for Love and integrity in a sea of lies, loneliness and deceit. Written in riveting free-form pose, this is Art on the edge, a live-wire ride into the psyche of a deeply human, deeply humane genius."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Frederick J. Ruf |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813934265 |
Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not merely a break from routine; it is its antithesis, a voluntary trading in of the security one feels at home for unpredictability and confusion. In Bewildered Travel Frederick Ruf argues that this confusion, which we might think of simply as a necessary evil, is in fact the very thing we are seeking when we leave home. Ruf relates this quest for confusion to our religious behavior. Citing William James, who defined the religious as what enables us to "front life," Ruf contends that the search for bewilderment allows us to point our craft into the wind and sail headlong into the storm rather than flee from it. This view challenges the Eliadean tradition that stresses religious ritual as a shield against the world’s chaos. Ruf sees our departures from the familiar as a crucial component in a spiritual life, reminding us of the central role of pilgrimage in religion. In addition to his own revealing experiences as a traveler, Ruf presents the reader with the journeys of a large and diverse assortment of notable Americans, including Henry Miller, Paul Bowles, Mark Twain, Mary Oliver, and Walt Whitman. These accounts take us from the Middle East to the Philippines, India to Nicaragua, Mexico to Morocco--and, in one threatening instance, simply to the edge of the author’s own neighborhood. "What gives value to travel is fear," wrote Camus. This book illustrates the truth of that statement.
Author | : George Washington Truett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Baptists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick J. Ruf |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081392667X |
This book illustrates the truth of that statement.
Author | : David Ferry |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0226244881 |
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry. To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against—and with—his genius for metrical variation. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry’s use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them. From Bewilderment: October The day was hot, and entirely breathless, so The remarkably quiet remarkably steady leaf fall Seemed as if it had no cause at all. The ticking sound of falling leaves was like The ticking sound of gentle rainfall as They gently fell on leaves already fallen, Or as, when as they passed them in their falling, Now and again it happened that one of them touched One or another leaf as yet not falling, Still clinging to the idea of being summer: As if the leaves that were falling, but not the day, Had read, and understood, the calendar.
Author | : YCT Expert Team |
Publisher | : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
2023-24 NTA UGC-NET/JRF English Solved Papers
Author | : Beverly Taylor |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0859911365 |
The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the present day, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets. The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: The Waste Land, David Jones's In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in Finnigan's Wake are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court to T.H. White's serio-comic The Once and Future King and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler. The Return of King Arthurincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from 1800 to the present day.
Author | : Max Ernst |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300107188 |
A comprehensive look at the life and work of a pioneering 20th-century artist
Author | : Robin P. Hoople |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780838754535 |
"In July of 1906 Archibald Henderson could pronounce with perfect confidence that Henry James was "a master impressionist." But as short a time as six years earlier, James's critics lacked this term in their vocabulary, and struggled with the sophisticated art of James's developing impressionistic literary technique. In Darkest James discusses the reviewer's frustrated, often irritated, and even anguished attempts to render a satisfactory account of the sequence of artifacts in which James moved toward the perfection of his craft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved