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Author: Garrett A. Sullivan
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGarrett A. Sullivan explores the ways in which a range of early modern plays - including King Lear the anonymous Arden of Faversham - intervene in the reconceptualisation of land and land ownership in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Author: Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1681490129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-04-13
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307791777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGirl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.
Author: Robert Yarham
Publisher: Herbert Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781912217274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of ushave little knowledge about the 4 billion years of history that formedit. This book explains the principles of geology, geography andgeomorphology, and shows how a basic understanding of geologicaltimescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you 'read' the greatoutdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a very accessible textthat clearly illuminates the landscape around us.
Author: Elinor Fuchs
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780472067206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater
Author: Francois Jullien
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 178660339X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'? In this important new book, one of France's most influential living theorists argues that the first civilization to truly consider landscape was China. In giving landscape the name 'mountain(s)-water(s)', the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. The Chinese conception speaks of a correlation between high and low, between the still and the motile, between what has form and what is formless, between what we see and what we hear. No longer a matter of 'vision', landscape becomes a matter of living. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason's unthought choices, and to take a fresh look at our more basic involvement in the world.
Author: Geoffrey S. Proehl
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780838641125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility begins with a moment in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra says to Antony, "Not know me yet?" With these four words Cleopatra poses a simple but fundamental human problem: What can we know? She and Antony have known each other for years, at times gloriously - emotionally, mentally, and in the archaic sense of the word, physically - but still the challenge of knowing hangs in the air. Cleopatra's question reminds us that knowledge is not simple: that it is as likely to create yearning as satisfaction; that it is not confined to any one part of the self; that it is far from intellect alone. It reminds us as do most great plays - that life is part wonder, part terror." "What we can know? This study - aimed at students, teachers, and theater artists - suggests that he attempt to know the dramaturgy of a play is little different from the attempt to know another person for whom we care."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780300030464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization
Author: Don McCullin
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781787330429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the greatest landscape photographers of our time.0His pastoral view is far from idyllic. Though the woods and stream close to his house in Somerset have offered some respite, he has not sought out the quiet corners of rural England.0He is drawn, instead, to the drama of approaching storms. He has an acute sense of how the emptiness of his immediate landscape echoes a wider tone of disquiet.0This is a beautifully produced photographic book containing sublime views of England shrouded in mist, snow, water or cowering beneath an overwhelming sky.0And although the majority of the images featured are from Great Britain, it also includes stunning scenes from Syria, Iraq, France, Morocco, Sudan, India and Indonesia.
Author: Stephen W. Sears
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0547526636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. “A modern classic.”—The Chicago Tribune “No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed.”—The Washington Post Book World “Authoritative and graceful . . . a first-rate work of history.”—Newsweek
