The Recalcitrant Art

The Recalcitrant Art
Author: David Farrell Krell
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2000-05-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 079149246X

In this entirely unique approach to the life of Friedrich Hölderlin, The Recalcitrant Art combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction as it examines the love between the poet and Susette Gontard ("Diotima"). On the left-hand or verso pages of the book appear Susette Gontard's letters, presented here in English translation for the first time, with an introduction and afterword by Douglas F. Kenney. On the right-hand or recto pages appear Sabine Menner-Bettscheid's scholarly responses to Kenney and fictional responses to Susette. Menner-Bettscheid gives life to an entire series of voices: Hölderlin's pious mother, Susette's calculating husband, Jacob, the Gontard's oldest child, Henry, the popular novelist Sophie LaRoche, and the Greek gardener and rabbit-keeper at the Gontard's summer home in Frankfurt all come to be heard. Douglas F. Kenney, by contrast, sticks to historical documentation and literary analysis.

Dismembering the Whole

Dismembering the Whole
Author: Cynthia Edenburg
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1628371250

A fresh literary analysis of political polemic in the Bible The Book of Judges ends with a bizarre narrative of sex and violence that starts with a domestic tiff and ends with the decimation of a tribe that is restored by means of abduction and rape. Cynthia Edenburg applies a fresh literary analysis, recent understandings of historical linguistics, and historical geography in her exploration of the origin of the anti-Benjamin polemic found in Judges 19–21, the growth and provenance of the book of Judges, and the shape of the Deuteronomistic History. Her study exposes how Judges 19–21 function as political polemic reflecting not the pre-monarchic period but instead the historical realities of the settlement of Benjamin during the Babylonian and Persian period. Features: Methodological discussions that open each chapter Charts and tables Engagement with current research produced by scholars from around the world

The Dial

The Dial
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1905
Genre: Books
ISBN:

The Bookman

The Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1897
Genre: Book collecting
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The Book of the Knight of the Tower

The Book of the Knight of the Tower
Author: R. Barnhouse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403983127

This book explores knightly stories of medieval manners and is a commentary on what people in the middle ages wore, how they prayed and what they hoped for in this life and the next. These stories range from the shockingly bawdy to the deeply pious, and often end with morals about the ways women can avoid 'blame, shame, and defame'.

Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Author: Wai-yee Li
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684170761

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender mediate the experience and expression of political disorder. Why and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries, female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming–Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma. 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Only the Universe Knows

Only the Universe Knows
Author: Wendy Barnhill
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2020-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1662900686

Paranormal experiences have been reported for centuries. From UFO sightings to alien abductions to close encounters, earth inhabitants have shared their experiences, provoking reactions ranging from ridiculous to ridicule. The stories are hauntingly similar and dismissed, but have yet to be disproven.

Wendy Barnhill’s story is one of those stories.

Her experiences have taken her life into a spiraling existence of questions and reliving haunting flashbacks. It is further complicated by having been raised in a violent underworld of chaos, dysfunction, drug and sexual abuse which reinforce the skepticism of her claims. Yet the nightmares, the flashbacks, and the physical effects of an actual life and death experience are as real as her physical disabilities which have resulted.

What happened to Wendy Barnhill on those multiple occasions when she was only seven years old, and on the occasions that followed?

After years of searching for answers, perhaps only the universe knows.