Rupert ́s Ambition

Rupert ́s Ambition
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734072115

Reproduction of the original: Rupert ́s Ambition by Horatio Alger

Rupert's Ambition

Rupert's Ambition
Author: Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1899
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN:

Rupert is the sole supporter of his widowed mother and sickly sister. When he loses his job due to the financial troubles of his employer, he unwittingly comes to the aid of a rich man and is rewarded with a new job as a bell boy in a hotel. His mother also receives employment as a housekeeper and the family's fortunes take a turn for the better.

Rupert's Ambition

Rupert's Ambition
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5041270163

The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix

The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix
Author: Jake Horsley
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1999
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780810836709

Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.

Applying Wittgenstein

Applying Wittgenstein
Author: Rupert Read
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441165509

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our conception of philosophy has for the ways in which we talk about meaning. He goes on to engage with literary texts as Wittgensteinian, where 'Wittgensteinian' does not mean expressive of a Wittgenstein philosophy, but involves the literature in question remaining enigmatic, and doing philosophical work of its own. He considers Faulkner's work as productive too of a broadly Wittgensteinian philosophy of psychopathology. Read then turns to philosophical accounts of time, finding a link between the division of time into discrete moments and solipsism of the present moment as depicted in philosophy on the one hand and psychopathological states on the other. This important book positions itself at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in Wittgenstein studies and philosophy in general and offers a new and dynamic way of using Wittgenstein's works.