A Critic's Journey

A Critic's Journey

Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780300080438

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This book - a collection of Hartman's essays from throughout his career - sheds new light on the past four turbulent decades of criticism."--BOOK JACKET.


A Critic's Journey

A Critic's Journey

Author: Ilan Stavans

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0472033824

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Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus and his typical flair with words, exploring the relationship between the two cultures from his own and also from others' experiences. Stavans has been hailed as a voice for Latino culture thanks to his Hispanic upbringing, but as a Jew and a Caucasian, he's also an outsider to that culture-something that's sharpened his perspective (and some of his critics' swords). In this book of essays, he looks at the creative process from that point of view, exploring everything from the translation of Don Quixote to Hispanic anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Latin America. Book jacket.


Journey of the Universe

Journey of the Universe

Author: Brian Thomas Swimme

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0300171900

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The authors tell the epic story of the universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples. This book is part of a larger project that includes a documentary film, educational DVD series, and Web site.


Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk

Author: Danielle Krysa

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 145214849X

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This charmingly illustrated guide shares ten truths about creativity, confidence, and how you can silence that stifling voice in your head. This book is a salve for creative minds everywhere, and duct tape for the mouth of every artist’s inner critic. Author and art curator Danielle Krysa explores ten essential truths we all must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on the creative path—fear of the blank page, the dangers of jealousy, sharing work with others—and explains how to navigate roadblocks. Packed with helpful anecdotes, thoughts from successful creatives, and practical exercises gleaned from Danielle Krysa’s years of working with professional and aspiring artists—plus riotously apt illustrations from art world darling Martha Rich—this ebook arms readers with the most essential tool for their toolbox: the confidence they need to get down to business and make good work.


A Journey Around My Room

A Journey Around My Room

Author: Xavier de Maistre

Publisher: Hersperus Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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What do you do when you find yourself imprisoned in your room for 6 weeks? Xavier de Maistre, a 27-year-old Frenchman found himself in this uneasy situation when he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in the Spring of 1790. But with only a butler and a dog for company, Xavier de Maistre managed to fill his time by embarking on a journey around his bedroom, later writing an account of what he had seen. Whether venturing from his bed to his sofa, or even to his mirror, he wears his "traveling outfit”--his favorite pink and blue pajamas. Out of his forced reclusion comes a captivating fantasy--a novel take on travel literature that would inspire many later writers, including Marcel Proust. This edition also contains de Maistre’s A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room. Xavier de Maistre was a military man, who supplemented his army career with short works of fiction.


The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

Author: Rinker Buck

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1451659164

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A new American journey.


Lionel Trilling and the Critics

Lionel Trilling and the Critics

Author: John Rodden

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780803239227

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Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who?s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through the 1970s. They include Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren, F. R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, R. W. B. Lewis, R. P. Blackmur, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Raymond Williams, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, William Barrett, Bruno Bettelheim, Gerald Graff, and Cornel West.


Master Your Inner Critic

Master Your Inner Critic

Author: Melanie Greene

Publisher: Summersdale

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0857654144

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Everyone has messages running through their head but for many people the messages are negative and self-critical. This is the first book to provide a range of tried and tested techniques for transforming your inner critic. By using these techniques you can transform your thoughts, feelings and behaviour to become a happier person.


Felicia's Journey

Felicia's Journey

Author: William Trevor

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-01-07

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0307367428

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Full of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, collector and befriender of homeless girls, who is also searching — in a way Felicia could never have imagined...


The Critical Journey

The Critical Journey

Author: Janet O. Hagberg

Publisher: Sheffield Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1879215667

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The Critical Journey, at its core, is a description of the spiritual journey: our response to our faith in God with the resulting changes that follow. In this book, authors Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich address the following issues: the struggle to find meaning and wholeness the crisis of values and identity at mid-life the quest for self-actualization the healing of early religious experiences questions about the spiritual journey Their goal is to help us understand where we are on our individual faith journeys and also appreciate where others are in theirs. The Critical Journey does not reveal exactly how or when we need to move along in our personal pilgrimages, nor does it offer formulas for spiritual growth. Rather, it describes six phases of the spiritual journey and illustrates how people act and think while in these stages. This is an excellent guide for those who are wrestling with their faith and wondering how others have resolved their "dark nights of the soul." Here is an answer for those who have wondered why everyone doesn't respond in the same manner to the message of the Gospel.