A Distinction of Stories
| Author | : Judson Boyce Allen |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature |
| ISBN | : 0814203108 |
Distinction A Tale
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Distinction
| Author | : Pierre Bourdieu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 113587316X |
Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.
The Darjeeling Distinction
| Author | : Sarah Besky |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0520277392 |
Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?
The Hebrew Folktale
| Author | : Eli Yassif |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 2009-04-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780253002624 |
"The most comprehensive account of its subject now available, this impressive study lives up to the encyclopedic promise of its title." -- Choice The Hebrew Folktale seeks to find and define the folk-elements of Jewish culture. Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, Yassif describes the major trends -- structural, thematic, and functional -- of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture.
The Folktale
| Author | : Stith Thompson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520033597 |
As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
Resilience Stories
| Author | : Hamideh Mahdiani |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2021-09-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3839458366 |
Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.
Bewilderments of Vision
| Author | : Oliver Tearle |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2014-06-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 183764179X |
According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period.
Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions
| Author | : Robert Sokolowski |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2022-01-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813235189 |
"Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions presents an anthology of the essays of Robert Sokolowski, a thinker who excels in questions of conceptual analysis. The essays constitute Sokolowski's sustained project of critical phenomenological analysis of many different forms of presentation as well as many different forms of human experience. Aimed at the specialist in phenomenology and the generalist in the philosophical tradition, Sokolowski's work describes various ways in which things appear: as pictured, quoted, measured, distinguished, explained, meant, and referred to. Through the analysis of appearances, he probes the question of being and clarifies the human condition. The fourteen essays are grouped into pairs or triplets. "Picturing" and "Quotation" describe representation in image and speech. "Making Distinctions" clarifies how we can isolate something as an issue for thought, and "Explaining" discusses what we do after we have isolated it. "Timing" and "Measurement" describe two ways in which wholes are articulated into parts, and "Exact Science and the World in Which We Live" further develops the theme of measurement. "Exorcising Concepts" and "Referring" are a phenomenological attempt to treat sense and reference. "Grammar and Thinking" and "Tarskian Harmonies in Words and Pictures" discuss the formal composition of sentences and images and their relationship to the way things are disclosed. The final three essays are studies in the phenomenology of ethical performance. By providing concrete analysis of human themes familiar to everything, such as picturing and quotation, these examples of applied phenomenology take appearances seriously, while making philosophical distinctions among them."--
Cyclops
| Author | : Mercedes Aguirre |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2020-05-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0191022861 |
A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed! This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. The first part is organised thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, the authors analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths, including medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, poetry, drama, the visual arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, film, and even a circus performance. This book aims to explore not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology which raises complex issues of thought and emotion.
Experience and Religion
| Author | : Wilhelm Dupré |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789052012797 |
The enactment of humanity begins with experiences and culminates in the effects of coping with experiences. Experience confirms the human potential, but indicates also its limitations, both in the sense that the absence of experiences undermines established modes of behavior, and that disregard and misunderstanding of experiences lead to distorted forms of personal and cultural relations. This book is an attempt to localize religion, as well as the study of religions, within the context of experiences and as a topic of philosophical inquiry. Focusing on the question of specifically religious experiences and investigating various models of the relationship between religion and experience, the study suggests that no specific experiences are needed to understand the emergence and development of religious traditions and attitudes. Assessing the implications of basic questions and attitudes in religious studies, it presents a theory of religion which is rooted in the internal dynamics of being human and cultural, and marked by a culture-oriented understanding of philosophy. The book concludes with a discussion of various phenomena which can be addressed as modes and forms of implicit religion, since they do not comply with expectations of traditional or explicit religion.
