Hearing the Grass Grow
Author | : Katie Thear |
Publisher | : Broad Leys Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780906137413 |
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Author | : Katie Thear |
Publisher | : Broad Leys Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780906137413 |
Author | : Robert H. Deluty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Haiku, American |
ISBN | : 9780979245930 |
Author | : Roger McKnight |
Publisher | : [Adelaide] : Rigby |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780851792644 |
Author | : Angela Leighton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674985346 |
Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Le Gai Eaton |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1985-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780887061639 |
Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brought up as an agnostic and embraced Islam at an early age after writing a book (commissioned by T.S. Eliot) on Eastern religions and their influence upon Western thinkers. As a Muslim he has retained his adherence to the perennial philosophy which, he maintains, underlies the teachings of all the great religions. The aim of this book is to explore what it means to be a Muslim, a member of a community which embraces a quarter of the worlds population and to describe the forces which have shaped the hearts and the minds of Islamic people. After considering the historic confrontation between Islam and Christendom and analysing the difference between the three monotheistic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), the author describes the two poles of Muslim belief in terms of Truth and Mercythe unitarian truth which is the basis of the Muslims faith and the mercy inherent in this truth. In the second part of the book he explains the significance of the Quran and tells the dramatic story of Muhammads life and of the early Caliphate. Lastly, the author considers the Muslim view of mans destiny, the social structure of Islam, the role of art and mysticism and the inner meaning of Islamic teaching concerning the hereafter. Throughout this book the author is concerned not with the religion of Islam in isolation, but with the very nature of religious faith, its spiritual and intellectual foundations, and the light it casts upon the mysteries and paradoxes of the human condition.
Author | : John M. Picker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195151916 |
Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. John Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the Victorian sense of aural discovery.