Language--the Unknown
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780231061070
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Unknown Language
Author: Huw Lemmey
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781999675912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong, long before the Information Age ended, young Hildegard of Bingen finds beauty in the moral and spiritual ruins of her medieval world. In her forty-third year, she inscribes her cosmic visions into Scivias, an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations thought to be destroyed during the evacuation of Earth. In a sea cave with cracked amethyst walls on Avaaz, Pinky Agarwalia discovers fragments of this visionary text containing hitherto unknown pathways to a lost vision of human co-existence with plants and non-humans - and the seeds of its rebirth on Avaaz. Bursting with mythic quantum energy, Hildegard's vital linguistic potion viriditas, threaded throughout her communiques, is a lush, verdant, renewable life-force. Her ecological message may be just the magic needed for rebirth on Avaaz. Hildegard's mystic toolkit for the future includes a cosmology, medicine, a morphology of crystals, recipes - and the symbols of a new language. As Pinky Agarwalia traces the diagrams with her fingertip, she suddenly understands - a vision that appears without warning in her own mind - that she must first immerse these materials in water, a guarded substance. In the water, the molecules of the hidden language dissolve, freeze then reconfigure into new shapes, the crystalline language communicated not through sound but by feeling and light. Lingua Ignota, Hildegard's mysterious invented 'unknown language', arrives just in time for a world in flux, one whose coordinates are being recast.
Temps Sensible
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780231102506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
The Book of Unknown Americans
Author: Cristina Henríquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0385350856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Julia Kristeva
Author: A. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996-11-07
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0230372074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature can have a disturbing effect on its readers. It unsettles our hold on everyday experience and makes us strangers and exiles. Anna Smith argues that this is the side of literature which attracts critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is drawn to states of extremity where language and the psyche are under duress, and in this book Smith examines the way the alchemical properties of words may transform these extremities into what Kristeva calls 'a fire of tongues, an exit from representation'.
Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language
Author: S. Higley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-09
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0230610056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it within a history of imaginary language making from medieval times to the most contemporary projects in efforts to uncover this woman s bold involvement in an intellectual and creative endeavor that spans centuries.
The Unknown Unknown
Author: Mark Forsyth
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-09-04
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 184831793X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop. Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing - what you never knew you were looking for.
The Unknown Islands
Author: Raul Brandão
Publisher: Bellis Azorica
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781951470005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Unknown Islands is considered one of the most beautiful works of travel literature in Portuguese and one of the most important homages to the Azorean archipelago. In the summer of 1924, Raul Brandão undertook a trip with other intellectuals through the Azores and Madeira. Fascinated with the landscapes of the islands and seduced by the people, he went on to pen this foundational text of Azorean literature--elegantly capturing the history, memory, and imaginary of this storied place.
My First Big Book of Words
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9781903840078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first word book provides very young children with lots of everydaybjects to spot and name, whilst children who are learning to read can usehe book as a fun spelling guide. A hide-and-seek game is included - Busterhe dog is hiding in the scenes on every double page!
The Book of the Unknown
Author: Jonathon Keats
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2009-02-10
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains twelve short stories that describe twelve unlikely saints, featuring "Alef the Idiot," "Gimmel the Gambler," "Zayin the Profane," "Chet the Cheat," and others.
