The title of which classic set in Africa is taken from a line in Yeats' poem The Second Coming and precedes the words 'the centre cannot hold'?

Things Fall Apart Reading Guide Part I, Chs. 1-13 (pp. 3-88) Achebe takes the title for his novel from a line in a     classic Western modernist poem "The Second     Coming" (wr. 1919; pub. 1921), by William Butler     Yeats (1865-1939; Irish). Paul Brians explains the     background of Yeats poem: "Yeats     was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and     fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain     human experience. 'The Second Coming,' written     after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism     and fascism rising, is a compelling glimpse of an inhuman     world about to be born. Yeats believed that history in     part moved in two thousand-year cycles. The Christian     era, which followed that of the ancient world, was about     to give way to an ominous period represented by the     rough, pitiless beast in the poem." Read "The     Second Coming" (below) and consider why Achebe might chose to take   the title of his novel from Yeats’ poem.     Consider how Achebes literary allusion to     Yeats poem might deepen or extendby comparison and/or     contrastthe meaning(s) of Achebes title and     his novel. THE SECOND             COMING Turning and turning in the             widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot             hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and             everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the             worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation             is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words             out When a vast image out of Spiritus             Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands             of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a             man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all             about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert             birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking             cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come at             last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? Describe Okonkwo, the protagonist of Things     Fall Apart. Consider him as an Igbo heroic character: how does he  work to achieve greatness as defined by his culture? How does he compare to  Western heroes whom you are familiar with? What are Okonkwo’s strengths and weaknesses? Describe Unoka, Okonkwos father. What are     Okonkwos feelings toward Unoka, and why? How does     the (negative) example of his father shape Okonkwos     character and actions? What do the early descriptions of     Okonkwos success and Unokas failure tell us     about Igbo society? How does one succeed in this cultural     context? What do we learn from the system of the taking     of titles? Who seems to be excluded from opportunities to     gain such success? Describe the narrator of Things Fall Apart, the "voice" telling us the story of Okonkwo, Umuofia (Igbo for "people of the forest," per     Brians), and the Igbo world of the nine villages. How     would you describe this narrative voice, its point of     view, its values and perspectives? In the introductory     essay to our edition, Simon Gikandi calls the     novels storyteller a "witness" (xiii)to what does Achebes narrator bear "witness"? Consider the impact of Achebes use of "African     English." Describe who Achebes intended     audience(s) might be. What is the effect on you, as a     Western reader and outsider to Igbo culture? Consider how     Achebes language choices contribute to the novel.     For example: (a) Achebe


Which 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen that originated the phrase 'conspicuous consumption' is considered one of the first detailed critiques of consumerism?

Project MUSE - J. Walter Thompson and the Creation of the Modern Advertising Agency J. Walter Thompson and the Creation of the Modern Advertising Agency Stephen Gennaro (bio) Abstract This article traces the J. Walter Thompson Company's rise to prominence in the advertising industry against the backdrop of the growth of the American advertising industry, American big business, and the emergence of a mass consumer society. Furthermore, the article looks into the internal records of the J. Walter Thompson Company to highlight how the advertising agency itself defined "advertising" and explained some of its practices. It begins by providing a historical overview of the emergence of the modern advertising agency. In addition to examining the business history of the early advertising industry and how the J. Walter Thompson Company became the world's largest agency by the middle of the 20th century, the article also explores the economic and social roles of the advertising agency. In 1868, a 21-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran, James Walter Thompson, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was hired by a small agency, Carlton & Smith, to sell advertising space in religious magazines. In little time, Thompson became a very successful salesperson, so much so that in less than a decade he had amassed a good deal of money, and in 1878 he purchased the company Carlton & Smith. 1 Thompson immediately renamed the company the J. Walter Thompson Company, a namesake it kept until 2005, when media conglomerate WPP Group, which now owns the company, changed its name to JWT in an attempt to remake the company's brand. Thompson's purchase of Carlton & Smith marks a watershed moment in advertising history as the beginning of the modern advertising agency. Over the course of the twentieth century, the J. Walter Thompson Company grew to be not only the largest advertising agency in the U.S. (in personnel, number of offices nationwide, and total amount of client dollars billed), but also the largest advertising agency in the world. Between 1945 and 1960, the agency climbed to the top of the advertising industry in the U.S. and worldwide, even as many of its competitors also experienced record growth due to an expanding American wartime economy and a burgeoning postwar middle class. 2 A significant part of the agency's success was linked to its internal managerial structure, which borrowed from the practices of emerging American big business in the second half of the nineteenth century and was spurred on by technological developments like the railroad and telegraph, which allowed for national brands and corporations to establish themselves in key economic sectors. This article traces the J. Walter Thompson Company's rise to prominence in the advertising industry against the backdrop of the growth of the American advertising industry, American big business, and the emergence of a mass-consumer society. Originally, the advertising agency did not provide advertising copy for its customers. The only job of advertisers in the first half of the nineteenth century was to sell advertising space from media such as newspapers and magazines to businesses that produced their own ads. 3 However, by the second half of the nineteenth century, technological development in America (such as the railroad and telegraph) had created a fundamental shift in the mode of production, a revolution that made the mass production of consumer goods possible. Mass-produced goods needed consumers, and in the last half of the nineteenth century, advertisers worked to create markets to deal with the significant increase in mass-produced goods by turning geographically separated cities into one unified marketplace and by creating artificial needs for potential consumers. 4 This is the merger of advertising with newly emerging American big business and the starting point of an American mass-consumer society. 5 The Business History of Advertising In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American marketplace consisted of a series of geographically fragmented markets. Alfred D. Chan


The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum is thought to have inspired which famous poem of P. B. Shelley?

Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" Poem animation - YouTube Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" Poem animation Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 21, 2011 Heres a virtual movie of the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley reading possibly his best loved poem "Ozymandias" "Ozymandias" ( /ˌɒziˈmændiəs/,[2] also pronounced with four syllables in order to fit the poem's meter) is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1818 (see 1818 in poetry) in the January 11 issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley's most famous short poem. It was written in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who wrote another sonnet entitled "Ozymandias" seen below. In addition to the power of its themes and imagery, the poem is notable for its virtuosic diction. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is unusual[3] and creates a sinuous and interwoven effect. The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable complete decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in their own time this is surely a pertinent theme given the death yesterday of the last of the old order of middle eastern dictators the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. For sure history does indeed just repeat itself. The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum thought to have inspired the poemOzymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt Kind Regards All rights are reserved oin this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011 Ozymandias........ I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear -- "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away Category


Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll?

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What 1908 satirical work by the Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France describes a fictitious island of great auks that exists on the northern coast of Europe?

anatole thibault jacques anatole france - AbeBooks anatole thibault jacques anatole france Sie suchten nach: Treffer (1 - 30) von 92 1 France, Anatole (eigentlich Jacques-Francois Anatole Thibault): Verlag: Hamburg Rowohlt (1953) Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer Buchbeschreibung: Hamburg Rowohlt, 1953. Reihe "rororo" Bd.49, 1.Aufl., 162 S., Broschur mit Leinenrücken, 8°. Aus dem Französischen von Paul Wiegler. Dieser humorvolle Roman von Anatole France (1844-1924), der 1921 den Nobelpreis für Literatur erhielt, erschien 1893. Buchnummer des Verkï¿½ufers FR50475 France, Anatole (eigentlich Jacques-Francois Anatole Thibault): Verlag: Berlin/Weimar Aufbau-Verlag (1979) Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer Buchbeschreibung: Berlin/Weimar Aufbau-Verlag, 1979. Reihe "bb-Taschenbuch" Band 420, 1.Aufl., 231 S., Broschur, 8°. Aus dem Französichen von Heidi Kirmße. Einband von Gerhard Rappus. guter Zustand. Anatole France (1844-1924), der 1921 den Nobelpreis für Literatur erhielt, veröffentlichte den vorliegenden Roman, der als sein bester gilt, im Jahr 1914. "Funkelnder Witz und eine umwerfende Frechheit charakterisieren den "Aufruhr der Engel" waren ein sicherlich nicht unwesentlicher Grund für den sofortigen und nachhaltigen Erfolg des Buches." (Aus dem Nachwort von Christa Bevernis). Buchnummer des Verkï¿½ufers FR131075 France, Anatole (eigentlich Jacques-Francois Anatole Thibault): Verlag: Berlin/Weimar Aufbau-Verlag (1982) Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer Buchbeschreibung: Berlin/Weimar Aufbau-Verlag, 1982. Reihe "buchclub 65", ohne Auflagenangabe, 414 S., Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag, 8°. Aus dem Französischen von Heidi Kirmße. Mit einem Nachwort von Gerhard Schewe. Guter Zustand. Dieser humorvollen Roman von Anatole France (1844-1924), der 1921 den Nobelpreis für Literatur erhielt, erschienen 1893. Buchnummer des Verkï¿½ufers FR160195 France, Anatole, pseud.) Thibault, Jacques Anatole) Brousson, Jean Jacques Verlag: J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, PA (1925) Gebraucht Hardcover Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer Buchbeschreibung: J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1925. Hard Cover. Buchzustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis Portrait (illustrator). 2nd Printing. black c w/red boards, paper labels, lite wear at spine/tips; 356 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 vo. Buchnummer des Verkï¿½ufers 007134 France, Anatole, pseud.) Thibault, Jacques Anatole) Hearn, Lafcadio trans/intro Verlag: Modern Liberary, NY (1932) Gebraucht Hardcover France, Anatole, pseud.) Thibault, Jacques Anatole) Stritzko, Jos. A.V. Trans Verlag: Modern Library, NY (1923) Gebraucht Hardcover France, Anatole [Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault] Verlag: Watts & Co., London (1935) Gebraucht Hardcover Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer Buchbeschreibung: Watts & Co., London, 1935. Hardcover. Buchzustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Second Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. THE THINKER'S LIBRARY # 21, Translated by A.W. Evans. Good brown pictorial cloth. Some edge and spine wear, previous owner name inside, no jacket. (1935), (1931), 12mo, xvi, 235pp. [4] "Devotees of the works of Anatole France agree without a dissenting voice that Penguin Island is his most searching and satirical novel." "Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of great auks that exists off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the great auks as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the animals for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the great auks to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the great auk history and from there forward the history mirrors that


In the US and Canada, what appropriately titled book of Dr. Seuss is a popular gift for students graduating from high school and college?

Dr. Seuss | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia http://www.seussville.com/ Theodor Seuss Geisel ( / ˈ ɡ aɪ z əl / ; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist . He was most widely known for his children's books written and illustrated as Dr. Seuss. He had used the pen name Dr. Theophrastus Seuss in college and later used Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone. [2] Geisel published 46 children's books, often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter . His most-celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham , The Cat in the Hat , The Lorax, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish , Horton Hatches the Egg , Horton Hears a Who! , and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! . His works have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns , most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army , where he wrote Design for Death , a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature . He was a perfectionist in his work and would sometimes spend up to a year on a book. It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book. For a writer he was unusual in that he preferred to be paid only after he finished his work rather than in advance. [3] Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. Contents Edit Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta (Seuss) Geisel. [4] [5] All of his grandparents were German immigrants. [6] His father managed the family brewery and later supervised Springfield's public park system after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. [7] Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in Dr. Seuss' first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street !, is less than a mile southwest of his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. Geisel was raised a Lutheran. [8] Geisel enrolled at Springfield Central High School in 1917 and graduated in 1921. He took an art class as a freshman and later became manager of the school soccer team. [9] College Edit Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925. [10] At Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity [4] and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern , eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. [4] While at Dartmouth, Geisel was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room. [11] As a result, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that he resign from all extracurricular activities, including the college humor magazine. [12] To continue work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss". His first work signed as "Dr. Seuss" appeared after he graduated, six months into his work for The Judge, where his weekly feature Birdsies and Beasties appeared. [13] Geisel was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing" at Dartmouth. [14] Upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford , intending to earn a PhD in English literature. [15] At Oxford, he met Helen Palmer , who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career. [15] He returned to the United States without earning a degree and later married Helen, in 1927. [4] Earliest post-college publications Edit He began submitting humorous articles and illustrations to Judge, Life, Vanity Fair , and Liberty . One notable "Technocracy Number" made fun of the technoc


"Can you fill-in the first line of the poem whose next lines are: ""................................................ Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.""?"

Poetry Forms "A - N". | Neopoet Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started . Poetry Forms "A - N". Submitted by Sparrow on Fri, 2015-01-23 03:50 Poetry Forms "A - N" Tyburn Villanelle If there are any forms of poetry that you cannot find here, just submit a Blog to that effect and we will see what we can do. Please bear with this as it will take some time before A – Z can be completed. Feel free to critique this lot and to add a replacement of what you think should be here, then I will Edit this into a useful Blog… Poetic Forms “A” “ABC poem” An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses – and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter. ” Accent” The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the first syllable. “ACROSTIC” Eclipsed by no other in this universe of heaven Around and around it goes, to be seasonal Rhythm of life’s cycle, day and then day again Time to slow, but a rotation of age to be Help her, as much as we have misused her wealth AArdvark Africa my birth place as man was born Ants so busy they just keep me warm Roaming the bush from mound to mound Delving with tounge deep underground Velvet termites a great soft feast for me Aware of the others, hurry up, I must flee Remember me, and let me plant my seed Keep us safe from this extinctions greed The first letter of each piece spells the name For the word puzzle, see Acrostic (puzzle). An acrostic (Greek: ákros “top”; stíchos “verse”) is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. Overview Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an ‘alphabetical acrostic’ or "Abecedarius". Notable among the acrostic Psalms are the long Psalm 119, which typically is printed in subsections named after the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, each of which is featured in that section; and Psalm 145, which is recited three times a day in the Jewish services. Acrostics are common in medieval literature, where they most commonly serve to highlight the name of the poet or his patron, or to make a prayer to a saint. They are most common in verse works but can also appear in prose. Often the ease of detectability of an acrostic can depend on the intention of its creator. In some cases an author may desire an acrostic to have a better chance of being perceived by an observant reader, such as the acrostic contained in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (where the key capital letters are decorated with ornate embellishments), or as in the poem. To Doctor Empiric (by Ben Jonson) which is a verse outlined after the word W-O-L-F giving emphasis to, and capitalizing the key letters so such acrostic is relatively easier to discern. However, acrostics may also be used as a form of steganography, where the author seeks to conceal the message rather than proclaim it. This might be achieved by making the key letters uniform in appearance with the surrounding text, or by aligning the words in such a way that the relationship between the key letters is less obvious. This is referred to as null ciphers in steganography, using the first letter of each word to form a hidden message in an otherwise innocuous text. Using letters to hide a message, as in acrostic ciphers, was popular during the Renaissance, and could employ various different methods of enciphering, such as selecting other letters than initials based on a repeating pattern (equidistant letter sequences), or even concealing the message by starting at the end of the text and working backwards. The classic mn


The 1954 publication of the book Seduction of the Innocent which protested the harmful effects of mass media on children led to a U.S. Congressional inquiry into what genre of publishing?

The innocents, The creation and Comic books on Pinterest Forward Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of violent imagery in mass media and comic books on the development of children. His best-known book was Seduction of the Innocent (1954), which purported that comic books are dangerous to children. Wertham’s criticisms of comic books helped spark a U.S. Congressional inquiry into the comic book industry and the creation of the Comics Code. ... See More


In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d'état attempt against it?

JEFFREY GEOFFREY LORD ARCHER     Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is a best-selling English author and former politician whose political career ended with his conviction and subsequent imprisonment (2001ï¿½03) for perjury and perverting the course of justice.     He has since repaid his debt to society and in our opinion was penalized     more than most, because any prison sentence, no matter how big or small     could not compare to the scandal that rocked his life. Alongside his literary work, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969ï¿½74), and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party (1985ï¿½86). He was made a life peer in 1992.   Early life - Background   Jeffrey Howard Archer was born in the City of London Maternity Hospital. He was two weeks old when his family moved to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he spent most of his early life. He has an older brother born out of wedlock, also originally called Jeffrey, who was put up for adoption at an early age. The brother assumed the name David Brown and only discovered his relationship to Archer in 1980, even though Archer already apparently knew this, according to the journalist Michael Crick. His father, William (died     1956), was sixty-four when Archer was born. In 1951, he won a scholarship to Wellington School, in Somerset (not to be confused with the public school Wellington College, which is possible from the ambiguous biography in Archer's earlier books). At this time his mother, Lola, contributed a column "Over the teacups" to the local press in Weston-super-Mare and wrote about the adventures of her son 'Tuppence'; this caused Archer to be the victim of bullying while at Wellington     School. After Archer left school passing O-levels in English Literature, Art, and History, he worked in a number of jobs, including training with the army and for the police. This lasted only for a few months, but he fared better as a Physical Education teacher; first at Vicar's Hill, a Prep School in Hampshire where he taught fencing amongst other sports, later at the more prestigious independent school Dover College in Kent. As a teacher he was popular with pupils and was reported by some to have had good motivational skills, helping to     instill personal confidence in the less confident. Oxford   Archer studied for three years, gaining an academic qualification in teaching awarded by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The course was based at Brasenose College, Oxford, although Archer was never registered as an undergraduate student of the College. There have been claims that Archer provided false evidence of his academic qualifications, for instance the apparent citing of an American institution which was actually a bodybuilding club, in gaining admission to the     course. It is also alleged that he provided false statements about three non-existent A level passes and a US     degree. His website includes references to his Oxford 'Principal', yet omits that he was not a full undergraduate at     Oxford. While in Oxford he was successful in athletics, competing in sprinting and hurdling. It is unclear whether he was in fact eligible to compete in Varsity matches, not being a member of the     College. Television coverage survives of him making false starts in a 1964 sprint race, but despite the rules Archer was not disqualified. He gained a blue in athletics and went on to run for England once and also competed for Great Britain once and was successful. Even as a student Jeffrey Archer was plagued with rumours of financial wrongdoing - fellow undergraduates were amazed that he owned houses and cars with personalised number plates while working part time as an Oxfam fund     raiser. He raised money for the charity Oxfam, obtaining the support of The Beatles in a charity fundraising drive. The band accepted his invitation to visit the senior common room of Brasenose College, where they were photographed with Archer and dons of the college, a


Which 1989 Spanish novel follows the story of young Tita who longs her entire life for Pedro but is only able to express her feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels?

Using Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel to Experience Critical Lenses “La sangre sin fuego hierve - Blood boils Literary Lens Definitions- Student Handout                                70 Pop Quiz Questions                                                        73         Further Resources                                                        82 Introduction Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is a beautifully written novel that offers seniors a chance to experience literature from another culture, as well as one written in a strong female voice. It is a heady introduction to Magical Realism. The book is enjoyable and easy to read, yet offers many levels of understanding that allows the  12th grade common assignment with its critical lenses to be successfully applied. The Enduring Understanding that guided our lesson planning was the understanding that there are different ways of seeing. We want students to see that there is no absolute truth, that versions of  вЂњthe truthвЂќ are dependent on a personвЂ™s viewpoint.  Critical  lenses  are  an  excellent way of coming to this understanding. Like Water for Chocolate is a rich text for exploring some of the essential questions that all of us face in life. Essential Questions we hope the students can answer through reading this novel are: What  is  essential  for  a  person  to  live a meaningful life? What affect does our family and birth order have on us and on those around us? What affect do our traditions and culture have on us and on those around us? As people, what universal things make us the same, even if we have different foods, family structures and social rules? We understand that this is a very ambitious project, and we encourage all teachers to adapt the schedule and task to the students they have. Knowing your own students and their strengths is the basis of all good teaching. What we have produced is a suggested layout that we hope helps you. In our calendar we have left spaces and provided sample lessons you might wish to use or adapt, according to your needs. Our diverse range of students guided our planning. Teacher   Backgrounder:   Critical Lenses The  PPS  High School Language Arts 12th Grade  Course Guide includes a suggested topic/theme of вЂњexamining and using critical lensesвЂќ in the interpretation of literature.  The present document is an attempt to lay out what that might look like in a five-week unit organized around a specific novel, Laura EsquivelвЂ™s Like Water for Chocolate. What is a вЂњcritical lens?вЂќ  In simplest terms, it is a set of questions that a reader might bring to a text in order to open it up in a fruitful way.   An вЂњenduring understandingвЂќ students should take away from this unit is the insight that the same text has within it the  potential  for  a  variety  of  valid, significant and interesting interpretations, depending on the critical lens used to examine it.  An immediate difficulty presents itself, however, in introducing this subject.  Although humans have been discussing different approaches to the interpretation of literature since Aristotle wrote the Poetics,  there is no discipline-wide consensus about which critical theories are most important to teach, or even what to call them!    Accordingly, we begin this backgrounder for the unit with a thumbnail set of definitions.  Our objective here has been to demystify this somewhat intimidating subject and to provide functional definitions of the most important critical lenses that teachers and students  can  use  as  an  entrГ©e into this fascinating subject.  For  teachers  looking for a more fully developed discussion of the meaning of a particular literary theory/lens, we note the following  readily  accessible  resources.  First,  PPSвЂ™ newly acquired  12th grade  textbook, Access Literature (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006) has a section (Chapte


Which 1944 work of Friedrich Hayek is among the most influential expositions of classical liberalism and is stated as the single book that significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan?

Conservatism Protect America Conservatism Conservatism arose in response to the Progressive challenge in the early 20th century and coalesced into the modern conservative movement in the post-World War II era. Here are three must-reads and some basic Q&As to get a handle on Conservatism. When you're ready for more, read the primary sources yourself and explore Conservatism in greater depth . Must Reads What is the conservative movement about? The American conservative movement is not defined by a set of policies but rather by a commitment to conserve America's first principles and its tradition of limited self-government. Conservatism holds that these first principles—proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and promulgated by the United States Constitution—define us as a country and inspire us as a people. Conservatives believe that the original structure of America's carefully written constitution and its enduring framework of limited government is the best mechanism for securing national independence, providing economic opportunity, establishing religious liberty, and maintaining a flourishing society of republican self-government. Conservatives believe that the change we need, the change that is consistent with the American idea, is not movement away from but toward our principles—which are both the fixed goal and the unchanging ground of our ever-changing experience. There are, of course, a wide variety of groups and movements within the conservative movement itself. Some are primarily focused on strengthening our national defense, others are concerned primarily with social issues, and still others are driven primarily to advance economic freedom. Although each of these groups is unique, they are all fused together into an identifiable movement—the conservative movement—by a common commitment to conserve America's first principles and political traditions. What are the origins of the conservative movement? Though its origins stretch back in Western thought, conservatism, as an organized set of ideas in the United States, can be said to begin when America's founding principles first were seriously challenged and in need of conserving. In the early 20th century a philosophical movement called Progressivism began to dominate mainstream American politics and academia. Progressives rejected the principles of the Founders and advocated reforming the American government as a centralized, administrative state. As Progressivism became increasingly prevalent, prominent political figures and intellectuals, including Calvin Coolidge, began to openly oppose the movement, advocating instead to maintain America's founding principles. As the 20th century progressed, Progressivism and subsequently liberalism would increasingly undermine and attack America's first principles. As these attacks grew stronger, so too conservatism grew stronger and became more visible. The conservative movement became particularly visible and more formalized after 1945 thanks to the energizing work of conservative intellectuals and politicians such as William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, and Barry Goldwater. Who was Calvin Coolidge and why does he matter? Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was one of the most principled and successful conservative Presidents of the 20th century. He assumed office in 1923 after the death of Warren Harding, under whom he served as Vice-President, and served as President until 1928.  Coolidge matters today because he is an example of how a principled, conservative leader can be both highly popular and successful in the modern era. Underlying his policies was a proper attachment to America's founding principles. Coolidge was also one of the most important critics of the threat Progressivism posed to those principles. His conservative economic policies and his constitutional vision helped bring about the prosperity of the 1920s. Harding inherited massive budget deficits and a severe depression from Woodrow Wilson. Coolidge aggressively cut federal spending and income tax rates. In 1922, the t


When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date?

Den första människan by Albert Camus — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: favorites , autobiography , camus This book was not what I expected. Due to the philosophical, melancholy nature of the first two Camus books I’ve read, (The Stranger and The Plague), I expected this book to be more academic, but it was far from it; it’s a more personal book, nostalgic, full of feelings and memories. This book is considered to be an autobiographical novel, and its unedited manuscript was found in the car wreckage in which Camus was killed. Even for an unedited piece of work, it is simply a masterpiece. It was int This book was not what I expected. Due to the philosophical, melancholy nature of the first two Camus books I’ve read, (The Stranger and The Plague), I expected this book to be more academic, but it was far from it; it’s a more personal book, nostalgic, full of feelings and memories. This book is considered to be an autobiographical novel, and its unedited manuscript was found in the car wreckage in which Camus was killed. Even for an unedited piece of work, it is simply a masterpiece. It was interesting to read Camus' annotations, and “see” the thought-process in his writing. The markings and notes definitely made Camus appear more "human" than he seems to be in his other books. The deep philosophical musings from his other books is notably missing. Jacques Cormery (Camus), a poor, gifted French child, was born and raised in Algeria by a semi-deaf mother and a domineering grandmother. As an adult (40 years old), he becomes more curious about his father, Henri, who died during the war at the very young age of 29. Not knowing his father clearly affected Cormery: “Something here was not in the natural order and, in truth, there was no order but chaos when the son was older than the father.” Unfortunately, nobody in his family could really help him on his quest: “In a family where they spoke little, where no one read or wrote, with an unhappy listless mother,who would have informed him about his young, pitiable father?” However, despite his frustration, Cormery (Camus) understands the situation; he understands poverty and its effect on people: “To begin with, poor people’s memory is less nourished than that of the rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughout lives that are grey and featureless. Of course there is the memory of the heart that they say is the surest kind, but the heart wears out with sorrow and labour, it forgets sooner under the weight of fatigue. Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.” I will end with an excerpt from a letter that Louis Germain (Camus' teacher, the man responsible for rescuing Camus from illiteracy) wrote to Camus: "Who is Camus? I have the impression that those who try to penetrate your nature do not quite succeed. You have always shown an instinctive reticence about revealing your nature, your feelings. You succeed all the more for being unaffected, direct." I would highly recommend it to all Camus fans. This is the kind of book that will stay with the reader for a very long time. ...more Shelves: african-lit , war-stories , international-intrigue , mesmerizing , fiction , french-translations , the-psyche , on-memory , fav-authors Who knew I would be reading Camus' last novel as though it was his first? In this world of the passed away French-Algiers, the present and past are blurred, as a man recalls his childhood, and the voice of the third-person narrator is so close, it might as well be first-person. This harrowing account of a fatherless boy living in poverty is so pure that it's perfect in its stimulation. How can an author who grew so popular for his structural peculiarity in The Stranger , bring us such a completel Who knew I would be reading Camus' last novel as though it was his first? In this world of the passed away French-Algiers, the present and past are blurred, as a man recalls his childhood, and t


Which 1975 book by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer is considered to be the founding philosophical statement of the animal rights movement?

What does Animal Liberation mean? This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Animal Liberation Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Animal Liberation Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. Following Jeremy Bentham, Singer argued that the interests of animals should be considered because of their ability to experience suffering and that the idea of rights was not necessary in order to consider them. His ethical ideas fall under the umbrella of biocentrism. He popularized the term "speciesism" in the book, which had been coined by Richard D. Ryder to describe the exploitative treatment of animals. Numerology The numerical value of Animal Liberation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1 Pythagorean Numerology


Utopia by Thomas More is largely based on which influential work of philosophy and political theory?

Thomas More (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Thomas More First published Wed Mar 19, 2014 Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English lawyer, humanist, statesman, and Catholic martyr, whose paradoxical life is reflected in his contrasting titles: he was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1521 and canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. Born to an affluent mercantile and professional family, he was representative of the lively intellectual culture which had evolved in fifteenth century London and which provided a platform for the early manifestations of humanism. More's outlook was shaped by his legal role in the affairs of the city, then by far the largest in England with a population of about 50,000, and it was as a representative of city interests that he was first drawn into service of the Crown. This involvement with London's civic life also played its part in the conception of Utopia, his best known work, completed in 1516. His friendship with the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus lasted over thirty years and was crucial to the development of his own ideas on literary studies, in particular the revival of Greek, and on the social possibilities of education. It was thanks to Erasmus that he was drawn into the literary networks of Northern humanism. While More cannot be classified in any formal sense as a philosopher, it is in his writings in defence of humanism and in Utopia that he can best be seen as an exponent of ideas. In the early years of their association More and Erasmus shared a critical interest in exposing the follies and abuses of contemporary life, not least in matters of religious practice; but once More was drawn into the savage polemics of the early Reformation he defended Catholic orthodoxy with all the weapons at his disposal. However, his efforts were compromised by a shift in government policy. His conscientious refusal to support King Henry's campaign to repudiate his marriage to Katherine of Aragon led to his retirement from public life and, ultimately, to imprisonment. During fourteen months in the Tower he wrote a number of devotional works which are in contrast to the severity of his polemical writings. Tried for treason, More was beheaded on 6 July 1535. His death caused widespread indignation on the Continent, where he was initially seen as a model of integrity, a Seneca-like counsellor who resisted a tyrannical ruler. His status as a Catholic martyr emerged later under the influence of the English Counter-Reformation. 1. Life and Works On the title-page of Utopia Thomas More identifies himself as a citizen of the renowned city of London. The city, with its privileges and corporate procedures, was central to his formation and to the style of his political thought. Born in Milk Street, Cripplegate, in February 1478, he was the son of a successful barrister, John More. Thomas began his education at St Anthony's, the outstanding grammar school in the city, but around 1490 he was placed as a page in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. Morton was evidently struck by More's talents since after two years he was sent on to Oxford, perhaps to Canterbury College. It was probably never intended that he should take a degree, but he must have received some grounding in the subjects of the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric). Morton, who died in 1500, would remain a figure of personal significance to More, appearing both in Richard III (in his earlier office as bishop of Ely) and in Utopia, where he serves as the figure of a wise and flexible statesman. An important source for More's biography is the letter that Erasmus wrote to Ulrich von Hutten in 1519 (CWE 7: Ep. 999), but it needs to be treated with caution. Erasmus had his own agenda, and he is largely responsible for the idea that John More dragged his reluctant son into a legal career. In fact, there is a marked consistency about Thomas's early career, and it seems that he successfully balanced his humanist interests with commitment to the law. After two years at O


The Other Side of Me is the autobiography of which popular American author and creator of the TV series I Dream of Jeannie?

The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon | NOOK Book (eBook) | Barnes & Noble® With shadows I spend it all My heart and I Have decided to end it all The world was bleak, and it fit my mood perfectly. I had reached the depths of despair. I could see no rhyme or reason for my existence. I felt dislocated and lost. I was miserable and desperately longing for something that I couldn't define or name. We lived near Lake Michigan, only a few blocks from the shore, and one night I walked down there to try to calm myself. It was a windy night, and the sky was filled with clouds. I looked up and said, "If there is a God, show yourself to me." And as I stood there staring at the sky, the clouds merged together, forming a huge face. There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. I ran all the way home in a panic. I lived with my family in a small, third-floor apartment in Rogers Park. The great showman Mike Todd said that he was often broke but he never felt poor. I, however, felt poor all the time because we were living in the demeaning kind of grinding poverty where, in a freezing winter, you had to keep the radiator off to save money and you learned to turn the lights out when not in use. You squeezed the last drops out of the ketchup bottle and the last dab of toothpaste out of the tube. But I was about to escape all that. When I arrived at our dreary apartment, it was deserted. My parents had already left for the weekend and my brother had gone. There was no one to stop me from what I intended to do. I walked into the little bedroom that Richard and I shared and I carefully removed the bag of sleeping pills I had hidden under the dresser. Next, I went into the kitchen, took a bottle of bourbon from the shelf where my father kept it, and carried it back to the bedroom. I looked at the pills and the bourbon and I wondered how long it would take for them to work. I poured some whiskey into a glass and raised it to my lips. I would not let myself think about what I was doing. I took a swallow of the whiskey, and the acrid taste of it made me choke. I picked up a handful of sleeping pills and started to raise them to my mouth, when a voice said, "What are you doing?" I spun around, spilling some of the whiskey and dropping some of the pills. My father was standing in the bedroom doorway. He moved closer. "I didn't know you drank." I looked at him, stunned. "I-I thought you were gone." "I forgot something. I'll ask you again: What are you doing?" He took the glass of whiskey from my hand. My mind was racing. "Nothing-nothing." He was frowning. "This isn't like you, Sidney. What's wrong?" He saw the pile of sleeping pills. "My God! What's going on here? What are these?" No plausible lie came to my mind. I said defiantly, "They're sleeping pills." "Why?" "I'm going to-to commit suicide." There was a silence. Then my father said, "I had no idea you were so unhappy." "You can't stop me, because if you stop me now I'll do it tomorrow." He stood there, studying me. "It's your life. You can do anything you want with it." He hesitated. "If you're not in too big a hurry, why don't we go for a little walk?" I knew exactly what he was thinking. My father was a salesman. He was going to try to talk me out of my plan, but he didn't have a chance. I knew what I was going to do. I said, "All right." "Put on a coat. You don't want to catch cold." The irony of that made me smile. Five minutes later, my father and I were headed down windswept streets that were empty of pedestrians because of the freezing temperature. After a long silence, my father said, "Tell me about it, son. Why do you want to commit suicide?" Where could I begin? How could I explain to him how lonely and trapped I felt? I desperately wanted a better life-but there was no better life for me. I wanted a wonderful future and there was no wonderful future. I had glowing daydreams, but at the end of the day, I was a delivery boy working in a drugstore. My fantasy was to go to college, but there was no money for that. My dream had been to become a writer. I had wr


Which notorious real-life terrorist figures prominently in Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy?

Carlos The Jackal | The Bourne Directory | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949 (1949-10-12) (age 58)) is a Venezuelan-born leftist revolutionary. After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez achieved notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, resulting in the deaths of three people. For many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives. He is now serving a life sentence in Clairvaux Prison in northeast France. He was given the nom de guerre Carlos when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Carlos was given the "Jackal" moniker by the press (The Guardian) when the Frederick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jackal was reportedly found among his belongings. Although the book actually belonged to someone else, the nickname stuck. Bourne's World Edit Carlos the Jackal is the main antagonist in the Bourne Trilogy. Carlos the Jackal figures prominently in Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy. In the Trilogy, Carlos is depicted as the world's most dangerous assassin whose trademark execution is a single well placed bullet in the throat, a man with international contacts that allow him to strike efficiently and anonymously at locations anywhere on the globe. His actual name (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) is used and details - a mixture of fact and fiction - are given about his upbringing and training, including the fictional account that he trained with Russian intelligence at Novgorod. In the Trilogy he keeps residence in France disguised as a priest, protected by a close network of contacts. In the Bourne Identity a relatively small amount is revealed about him but he factors prominently in the plot of the book because the title character, Jason Bourne , was an American black-ops officer whose mission was to usurp Carlos as the world's preeminent assassin in order to draw him out of hiding so that he could be killed or captured. During this book, it is "revealed" that Carlos in fact orchestrated the Kennedy assassination. In the second book, The Bourne Supremacy , Carlos is not a significant character and is understood to be in hiding. However, in The Bourne Ultimatum , the final book of the trilogy, Carlos and Bourne are pitted against each other again in which their feud finally end when The Jackal drowns in the river bordering the KGB traning facility which he was trying to blow up. Carlos the Jackal is not mentioned in the Bourne film adaptations that star Matt Damon, although The Guardian newspaper, credited with giving Carlos his "Jackal" moniker, is featured in The Bourne Ultimatum film.


Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the titular character of what controversial 1928 book?

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Book Review 3 Conclusion: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence Introduction: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence In a quest to understand how books relate to life and the subsequent lessons they teach, I have been working my way through the classics. The books in my reading pile are frequently on “lists” of must-read books. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence is one of the 50 books mentioned in Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Book in Human History by Andrew Taylor. Lawrence completed Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1926, and spent two years trying to get it published. He subsequently printed it privately in Florence in 1928 two years before his death. Lawrence was already an established writer having already written Sons and Lover, Women in Love , among other books, so why did it take so long, and why was it so difficult to publish Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Prospective publishers were scared to be prosecuted under obscenity laws. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned in the US and Britain for over 30 years for being obscene – the ban lifted 1959 and 1960 respectively in each country. There is a lot of sexual activity and liberal use of the four letter word in the book. Even by today’s standard, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is somewhat vulgar. Imagine what it would be like in the 1920s for a book to have such explicit sexual content? Though there is a lot of sexual activity in the book, a major theme is social class – the haves versus the have-nots. The lead characters are Constance Chatterley, her husband Sir Clifford Chatterley, a landowner, and the husband’s gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. The Story: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence Shortly after Connie married Clifford, he sustained serious injuries in World War I , was confined to a wheelchair and left sexually impotent. Connie always wanted a child, and now it was impossible because of her husband’s newfound situation. She supports him, helps him to write his books and is the perfect hostess to the many people in “their class” who visits them. There is a lot of discourse going on between Clifford and his friends when they visit, with Connie in the background silently sewing and taking in the conversations. Depending on Clifford’s mental state he would suggest to Connie to have an affair to have a child, but he tells her he wouldn’t want to know about it. He doesn’t mind is she has a child for another man, he would raise it as if it was his own, but he doesn’t want the child to be more important to Connie than he was. Knowing that Clifford was paralyzed, Connie’s father also suggested that she have an affair, get herself a beau, but the unspoken understanding is that it be with someone within her own class. Connie misses the intimacy between partners. She gets the opportunity to have her first affair with Michaelis, a playwright Clifford often invites to his estate to discuss writing. Clifford wants to learn from Michaelis, but he doesn’t like him because Michaelis wasn’t born into wealth, he acquired success through his writing. They are from two different social classes. The brief affair between Connie and Michalelis turns out to be quite unsatisfying. “Connie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of her affair with Mick, as people called him. Yet other men seemed to mean nothing to her. She was attached to Clifford. He wanted a good deal of her life and she gave it to him. But she wanted a good deal from the life of a man, and this Clifford did not give her, could not.” Most of Lady Chatterley’s Lover is centered on Connie’s affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. She becomes pregnant by him. In the novel you see their love blossoming. They are reckless, especially Connie, when it comes to carving out time to be together, she sneaks out all hours of the night. While her relationship with Oliver deepens, she goes through a process of self-discovery and realizes that she doesn’t love or even like Clifford. There are always consequences for our actions. Oliver Mellors is quite intelligent and he for


If Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day details the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and The Last Battle tells about the Battle of Berlin, which of his books tells the story of Operation Market Garden in WWII?

Cornelius Ryan (Author of The Longest Day) edit data Ryan was born in Dublin. After finishing his education Ryan moved to London in 1940, and became a war correspondent for ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1941. He initially covered the air war in Europe during WW II, flew along on fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth Air Force and Ninth Air Force United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), then joined General Patton's Third Third Army and covered its actions until the end of the European war. He transferred to the Pacific theater in 1945, and then to Jerusalem in 1946. Ryan emigrated to the United States in 1947 to work for Time magazine, where he reported on the postwar tests of atomic weapons carried out by the United States in the Pacific. This was followed by work for other magazines, including Ryan was born in Dublin. After finishing his education Ryan moved to London in 1940, and became a war correspondent for ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1941. He initially covered the air war in Europe during WW II, flew along on fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth Air Force and Ninth Air Force United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), then joined General Patton's Third Third Army and covered its actions until the end of the European war. He transferred to the Pacific theater in 1945, and then to Jerusalem in 1946. Ryan emigrated to the United States in 1947 to work for Time magazine, where he reported on the postwar tests of atomic weapons carried out by the United States in the Pacific. This was followed by work for other magazines, including Collier's Weekly and Reader's Digest. He married Kathryn Morgan (1925–1993), a novelist, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1951. On a trip to Normandy in 1949 Ryan became interested in telling a more complete story of D-Day than had been produced to date. He began compiling information and conducting over 1000 interviews as he gathered stories from both the Allies and the Germans, as well as the French civilians. In 1956 he began to write down his World War II notes for The Longest Day, which tells the story of the invasion of Normandy. Published in 1959 it was an instant success. His next work was Last Battle The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin (1966), about the Battle of Berlin. This work was followed by A Bridge Too Far (1974), which tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated assault by allied airborne forces on the Netherlands culminating in the Battle of Arnhem. Ryan was awarded the French Legion of Honor, and an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed (Alden Library). He was diagnosed with cancer in 1970, and struggled to finish A Bridge Too Far during his illness. He died in Manhattan, while on tour promoting the book, A Bridge Too Far, only two months after publication. Four years after his death, Ryan's struggle with cancer was detailed in A Private Battle written by his wife, from notes he had secretly left behind for that purpose. He is buried in the Ridgebury Cemetery in northern Ridgefield, Connecticut.


The American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux's book Sir Vidia's Shadow provides a caustic portrait of which other famous author?

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents: Amazon.de: Paul Theroux: Fremdsprachige Bücher Produktbeschreibungen Amazon.de In several of his recent fictions, Paul Theroux has visibly mined his own experience for raw material, going so far as to provide the protagonist of My Other Life with his own name and curriculum vitae. Now, in Sir Vidia's Shadow, he casts a cold and cantankerous eye on his friendship with V.S. Naipaul. The two first met in Uganda in 1966, when the 23-year-old Theroux was teaching at the local university and trying, with only limited success, to transform himself into a writer. The arrival of Naipaul--at 34 already a world-class novelist, with A House for Mr. Biswas under his belt--was a signal event in Theroux's life: "I had been working in the dark, just groping, until I had met Vidia." After being squired around Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda by the author, Naipaul returned to London. Their correspondence continued, and the relationship--in which Theroux was very much the junior partner and acolyte--deepened. During a holiday visit to London the next year, he realized that their rapport "was as strong as love. He was my friend, he had shown me what was good in my writing, he had drawn a line through anything that was false." And indeed, over the next three decades the two exchanged a steady stream of letters, visits, phone calls, and authorial confidences. Yet this most productive of literary friendships came to an abrupt end in 1996, when Naipaul--now knighted and recently remarried--burned a number of bridges and tossed his relationship with Theroux into the conflagration. All of which brings us to Sir Vidia's Shadow, a peculiar mixture of autobiography, Boswellian chronicle, and poison-pen letter. In many ways, it's a fascinating and devilishly skilled performance. For starters, Theroux spent more time in his subject's company than Boswell ever spent in Johnson's, which gives his portrait a widescreen verisimilitude. He documents Naipaul's loony fastidiousness, his passion for language, "the laughter in his lungs like a loud kind of hydraulics," and the very sound of his typewriter (which, just for the record, goes chick-chick-chick). Theroux also gives a superb sense of how such literary apprenticeships can function to the mutual benefit of master and disciple--and how they can erode. By 1975, after all, Theroux had become the bestselling author of The Great Railway Bazaar , while Naipaul remained an under-remunerated critics' darling. Out of habit, Theroux stayed in the older man's shadow. Still, as the book progresses, it becomes harder and harder to tell precisely who's got the anxiety and who's got the influence. It also becomes harder and harder to ignore Theroux's late-breaking animus toward his subject. His goal--stated not only in the book but in various tailgunning replies to his critics--was to write an accurate account of a long, rich friendship. "This narrative is not something that would be improved by the masks of fiction," he declares. "It needs only to be put in order. I am free of the constraint of alteration and fictionalizing." Yet every book has a tendency to break free of the author's intentions, and Sir Vidia's Shadow is no exception. For each reverent (and convincing) passage about his subject, there's another in which Theroux seems to be administering some deeply ambivalent payback. He contrasts Naipaul's sexless misogyny with his own erotic enthusiasm, and his own generosity with his hero's miserly behavior (although Naipaul's penny-pinching and check-dodging can make him strangely endearing--the Jack Benny of contemporary letters). At times Theroux seems determined to explore all seven types of ambiguity, which makes for both deliberate and not-so-deliberate hilarity. He also sounds uncannily like a spurned lover. And perhaps that residue of expired passion accounts for both the brilliance of Sir Vidia's Shadow and its disturbing, sometimes queasy pathos. --James Marcus Pressestimmen "A compact, provocative gem of a novel." Boston Globe"Vigorous and evocativ


Which 1961 book by Frantz Fanon was described by Time magazine as 'this is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the anticolonial revolution ...'?

All The Devils, All Together, All At Once - Google Groups All The Devils, All Together, All At Once Showing 1-474 of 474 messages Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger, Bin Laden, Pol Pot, Hardt, Negri, & the kitchen sink.... Postmodern Jihad What Osama bin Laden learned from the Left. by Waller R. Newell   MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Osama bin Laden's Islamic   fundamentalism; less about the contribution of European Marxist   postmodernism to bin Laden's thinking. In fact, the ideology   by which al Qaeda justifies its acts of terror owes as much   to baleful trends in Western thought as it does to a perversion   of Muslim beliefs. Osama's doctrine of terror is partly a   Western export.   To see this, it is necessary to revisit the intellectual brew   that produced the ideology of Third World socialism in the   1960s. A key figure here is the German philosopher Martin   Heidegger (1889-1976), who not only helped shape several   generations of European leftists and founded postmodernism,   but also was a leading supporter of the Nazis. Heidegger argued   for the primacy of "peoples" in contrast with the alienating   individualism of "modernity." In order to escape the yoke of   Western capitalism and the "idle chatter" of constitutional   democracy, the "people" would have to return to its primordial   destiny through an act of violent revolutionary "resolve."     Heidegger saw in the Nazis just this return to the blood-and-soil   heritage of the authentic German people. Paradoxically, the   Nazis embraced technology at its most advanced to shatter the   iron cage of modernity and bring back the purity of the distant   past. And they embraced terror and violence to push beyond   the modern present--hence the term "postmodern"--and vault   the people back before modernity, with its individual liberties   and market economy, to the imagined collective austerity of   the feudal age.   This vision of the postmodernist revolution went straight from   Heidegger into the French postwar Left, especially the works   of Jean-Paul Sartre, eager apologist for Stalinism and the   Cultural Revolution in China. Sartre's protégé, the Algerian   writer Frantz Fanon, crystallized the Third World variant of   postmodernist revolution in "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961).    From there, it entered the world of Middle Eastern radicals.   Many of the leaders of the Shiite revolution in Iran that   deposed the modernizing shah and brought the Ayatollah Khomeini   to power in 1979 had studied Fanon's brand of Marxism. Ali   Shari'at, the Sorbonne-educated Iranian sociologist of religion   considered by many the intellectual father of the Shiite   revolution, translated "The Wretched of the Earth" and Sartre's   "Being and Nothingness into Persian." The Iranian revolution   was a synthesis of Islamic fundamentalism and European Third   World socialism.   In the postmodernist leftism of these revolutionaries, the   "people" supplanted Marx's proletariat as the agent of   revolution. Following Heidegger and Fanon, leaders like Lin   Piao, ideologist of the Red Guards in China, and Pol Pot,   student of leftist philosophy in France before becoming a   founder of the Khmer Rouge, justified revolution as a therapeutic   act by which non-Western peoples would regain the dignity they   had lost to colonial oppressors and to American-style materialism,   selfishness, and immorality. A purifying violence would purge   the people of egoism and hedonism and draw them back into a   primitive collective of self-sacrifice.   MANY ELEMENTS in the ideology of al Qaeda--set forth most   clearly in Osama bin Laden's 1996 "Declaration of War Against   America"--derive from this same mix. Indeed, in Arab intellectual   circles today, bin Laden is already being likened to an earlier   icon of Third World revolution who renounced a life of privilege   to head for the mountains and fight the American oppressor,   Che Guevara. According to Cairo journalist Issandr Elamsani,   Arab leftist intellectuals still see the world very much


What genre of literature is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto?

Gothic Books Genres > Fiction > Gothic Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both the uncanny and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is considered to be the parent genre for both Horror and Mystery , among other genres. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initi Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both the uncanny and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is considered to be the parent genre for both Horror and Mystery , among other genres. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole. Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere. The ruins of gothic buildings gave rise to multiple linked emotions by representing the inevitable decay and collapse of human creations — thus the urge to add fake ruins as eye catchers in English landscape parks. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals. In literature such anti-Catholicism had a European dimension featuring Roman Catholic excesses such as the Inquisition (in southern European countries such as Italy and Spain). Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses. The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, monks, nuns, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, angels, fallen angels, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself. ...more New Releases Tagged "Gothic"


Which writer, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature created the fictional cities of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Zenith, Winnemac?

Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945 | IIP Digital Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945 15 May 2007 Langston Hughes (Photo courtesy Knopf, Inc.) (The following article is taken from the U.S. Department of State publication USA Literature in Brief.) Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945 By Kathryn VanSpanckeren Many historians have characterized the period between the two world wars as the United States' traumatic "coming of age," despite the fact that U.S. direct involvement was relatively brief (1917-1918) and its casualties many fewer than those of its European allies and foes. John Dos Passos expressed America's postwar disillusionment in the novel Three Soldiers (1921), when he noted that civilization was a "vast edifice of sham, and the war, instead of its crumbling, was its fullest and most ultimate expression." Shocked and permanently changed, Americans returned to their homeland but could never regain their innocence. Nor could soldiers from rural America easily return to their roots. After experiencing the world, many now yearned for a modern, urban life. New farm machines such as planters, harvesters, and binders had drastically reduced the demand for farm jobs; yet despite their increased productivity, farmers were poor. Crop prices, like urban workers' wages, depended on unrestrained market forces heavily influenced by business interests: Government subsidies for farmers and effective workers' unions had not yet become established. "The chief business of the American people is business," President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed in 1925, and most agreed. In the postwar "Big Boom," business flourished, and the successful prospered beyond their wildest dreams. For the first time, many Americans enrolled in higher education – in the 1920s college enrollment doubled. The middle-class prospered; Americans began to enjoy the world's highest national average income in this era, and many people purchased the ultimate status symbol – an automobile. The typical urban American home glowed with electric lights and boasted a radio that connected the house with the outside world, and perhaps a telephone, a camera, a typewriter, or a sewing machine. Like the businessman protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt (1922), the average American approved of these machines because they were modern and because most were American inventions and American-made. Americans of the “Roaring Twenties” fell in love with other modern entertainments. Most people went to the movies once a week. Although Prohibition – a nationwide ban on the production, transport, and sale of alcohol instituted through the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – began in 1919, underground “speakeasies” and nightclubs proliferated, featuring jazz music, cocktails, and daring modes of dress and dance. Dancing, moviegoing, automobile touring, and radio were national crazes. American women, in particular, felt liberated. Many had left farms and villages for homefront duty in American cities during World War I, and had become resolutely modern. They cut their hair short (“bobbed”), wore short “flapper” dresses, and gloried in the right to vote assured by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1920. They boldly spoke their mind and took public roles in society. Western youths were rebelling, angry and disillusioned with the savage war, the older generation they held responsible, and difficult postwar economic conditions that, ironically, allowed Americans with dollars – like writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound – to live abroad handsomely on very little money. Intellectual currents, particularly Freudian psychology and to a lesser extent Marxism (like the earlier Darwinian theory of evolution), implied a "godless" world view and contributed to the breakdown of traditional values. Americans abroad absorbed these views and brought them back to the United States where they took root, firing the imagination of young writers and artists. William Faulkner, for example, a 20th-century American novelist, employe


What term from the Spanish for 'rogue/rascal' describes a genre of fiction that depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society?

picaro : definition of picaro and synonyms of picaro (English) "Picaresque" redirects here. For the album by the Decemberists, see Picaresque (album) . This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008) The picaresque novel ( Spanish : "picaresca", from "pícaro", for " rogue " or " rascal ") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. As indicated by its name, this style of novel originated in Spain , where it was possibly influenced by Arabic literature (specifically the maqama genre, which also featured the episodic exploits of a rogue character), flourished in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and continues to influence modern literature. Contents 5 External links History The genre has classical precedents in Petronius 's fragmentary " Satyricon ", and in Apuleius 's " The Golden Ass ." The last two are rare surviving samples of a mostly lost genre, which was highly popular in the Classical world, known as " Milesian tales ." Medieval Arabic literature possesses similar themes. Al-Hamadhani (d.1008) of Hamadhan (Iran) is credited with inventing the literary genre of maqamat in which a wandering vagabond makes his living on the gifts his listeners give him following his extemporaneous displays of rhetoric, erudition, or verse, often done with a trickster 's touch. [1] Ibn al-Astarkuwi or al-Ashtarkuni (d.1134) also wrote in the genre maqamat , comparable to later European picaresque novels. [2] While elements of Chaucer and Boccaccio have a picaresque feel, the modern picaresque begins with Lazarillo de Tormes , published anonymously in Antwerp and Spain in 1554 and variously considered either the first picaresque novel or at least an antecedent to the genre. The title character Lazarillo is a pícaro who must live by his wits in an impoverished country full of hypocrisy. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini , written in Florence beginning in 1558, also has much in common with the picaresque. Another early example is Mateo Alemán 's Guzmán de Alfarache (1599), characterized by religiosity. Francisco de Quevedo 's El buscón (1604 according to Francisco Rico; the exact date is uncertain, yet it was certainly a very early work) is considered the masterpiece of the subgenre by A.A. Parker, because of his baroque style and the study of the delinquent psychology. However, a more recent school of thought, led by Francisco Rico, rejects Parker's view, contending instead that the protagonist, Pablos, is a highly unrealistic character, simply a means for Quevedo to launch classist , racist and sexist attacks. Moreover, argues Rico, the structure of the novel is radically different from previous works of the picaresque genre: Quevedo uses the conventions of the picaresque as a mere vehicle to show off his abilities with conceit and rhetoric, rather than to construct a satirical critique of Spanish Golden Age society. In other European countries, these Spanish novels were read and imitated. In Germany , Grimmelshausen wrote Simplicius Simplicissimus (1669), the most important of non-Spanish picaresque novels. It describes the devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War . In France , this kind of novel declined into an aristocratic adventure: Le Sage 's Gil Blas (1715). In England , the body of Tobias Smollett 's work, and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders (1722) are considered picaresque, but they lack the sense of religious redemption of delinquency that was very important in Spanish and German novels. The triumph of Moll Flanders is more economic than moral. The classic Chinese novel Journey to the West is considered to have considerable picaresque elements. Having been written in 1590, it is contemporary with much of the above - but is unlikely to have been directly influenced by the European genre. Influe


Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre?

Wide Sargasso Sea: Postcolonial literature, Parallel novel, Jean Rhys, Charlotte BrontÃ«, Jane Eyre, Patriarchal, Jamaica, Assimilation, Mental illness: Amazon.es: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Libros en idiomas extranjeros AÃ±adir a la Lista de deseos Â¿Tienes uno para vender? Volver atrÃ¡s Ir adelante Escuchar Reproduciendo... Interrumpido   EstÃ¡s escuchando una muestra de la ediciÃ³n de audio Audible. MÃ¡s informaciÃ³n Ver esta imagen Wide Sargasso Sea: Postcolonial literature, Parallel novel, Jean Rhys, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Patriarchal, Jamaica, Assimilation, Mental illness (InglÃ©s) Tapa blanda – 8 ene 2011 Tapa blanda, 8 ene 2011 "Vuelva a intentarlo" DescripciÃ³n del producto Reseña del editor Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Dominica-born author Jean Rhys. Since her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939, Rhys had lived in obscurity. Wide Sargasso Sea put Rhys into the limelight once more, and became her most successful novel. The novel acts as a prequel to Charlotte BrontÃ«''s famous 1847 novel Jane Eyre. It is the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, Antoinette (Bertha) Mason, a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to England. Caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor the black Jamaicans, Rhys'' novel re-imagines BrontÃ«''s devilish madwoman in the attic. As with many postcolonial works, the novel deals largely with the themes of racial inequality and the harshness of displacement and assimilation. No es necesario ningÃºn dispositivo Kindle. DescÃ¡rgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. Apple


A mysterious figure paid an annual tribute on Jan 19th during the period of 1949 to 2009 to which American author by visiting the author's original grave marker in Baltimore?

HAND/MADE Catalogue by Kara Mask - issuu issuu RINEHART’S STUDIO: ROUGH STONE TO LIVING MARBLE THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM MARYLA ND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART 1300 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 FOREWORD RINEHART’S STUDIO: ROUGH STONE TO LIVING MARBLE 09 F OR E WOR D B Y JO BR IG G S W illiam T. Walters lived in a sculptural world. The front door of his townhouse at 5 West Mount Vernon Place was decorated with reliefs of water nymphs; the ornate sideboard in his diningroom was adorned with dead game carved with high realism in wood; and his study was filled with dynamic bronzes by the famous French sculptor of animals Antoine-Louis Barye. For the decade after the Civil War, Walters’ entrance hall formed a gallery of American sculptures. Most prominent was a significant early commission from William Henry Rinehart, the life-sized marble Woman of Samaria. Walters’ devotion to sculpture also crossed media; he commissioned cameos after Rinehart’s works, which he intended to be worn by female relatives. Not content with filling his domestic realm with sculptural objects, in 1884, Walters brought his private passion to the public by donating five works by Barye to the city of Baltimore, turning Mount Vernon Place into an outdoor art museum, which, conveniently, was overlooked by his study. The gift comprised the large lion that gazes up at George Washington on his monument and the four allegorical groups of War, Peace, Order, and Force. Later, Walters donated a statue by Paul Dubois titled Military Courage and a seated bronze of Roger B. Taney by Rinehart—testament to Walters’ enduring Southern sympathies. In Rome, Rinehart and his team of Italian workers also lived in a sculptural world, but one quite different from that of his friend and patron Walters in Baltimore. In his studio, Rinehart directed his highly skilled employees in the production of portrait busts of wealthy Americans and idealizing sculptures in multiple versions and different sizes to suit a range of budgets. It was these workers who turned Rinehart’s clay models into plasters and then finished marbles. It is symptomatic of the highly conflicted relationship with labor, waged and otherwise, in nineteenth-century America that visiting tourists, such as Walters and his family, would experience firsthand in Rinehart’s studio the collaborative nature of the sculpting process, but still ascribe the finished work to Rinehart only. The pristine marble sculptures and portrait busts that traveled from Rinehart’s dusty studio to parlors and galleries in the United States appear to exist outside time; their smooth surfaces deny the hand of either artist or worker, and the beauty of the finished works effaces their origins. Their owners forgot what they had seen at the workshop, thinking only of high art. These sculptures represented pure thought and abstracted and enduring values. However, close looking at Rinehart’s marble sculptures reveals the tensions behind their production. His finished works share the same startling qualities: Rinehart and his team of workers were highly skilled at suggesting fabric stretched over bodies, multiple layers of fabric over fabric, lace over hair, and youthful or aging skin over bone. When the surfaces of these sculptures are examined in detail, the drill marks that remain from the pointing dev ice can be discerned. Used to transfer exact dimensions from plaster model to marble block, this series of minute holes covers the finished piece. Occasionally a flaw in the marble is covered with wax or plaster which has yellowed over time. In these small traces, the physical work of the carver, the character of the natural stone, and the action of time return. Both the MICA exhibition HAND / MADE and its counterpart Rinehart’s Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble at the Walters Art Museum invite audiences to dwell on the tensions between process and finished work. The collaboration with MICA allowed Rinehart’s Sleeping Children to be juxtaposed with new and newly commissioned art before t


"Which writer of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair was once called ""the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language"" by Gabriel García Márquez?"

Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda Poems - Poem Hunter Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda Poems - Poem Hunter Do you like this poet? Pablo Neruda Poems Don'T Go Far Off  Don't go far off, not even for a day, ... Your Laughter  Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air... Sonnet Xvii  I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or ... A Dog Has Died  My dog has died. I buried him in the ... All poems of Pablo Neruda » Search in the poems of Pablo Neruda: Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal color of hope. On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São ... more » Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets. Quotations ''A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.'' Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet. Memoirs, ch. 11 (1974, trans. 1977). “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is ... 100 Love Sonnets ''“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” '' Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets ''“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” '' Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems ''“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, youll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” '' ― Pablo Neruda


What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses?

Bloomsday: Ulysses novel , James Joyce, Nora Barnacle, James Joyce Centre, Leopold Bloom, Davy Byrne's pub, Lilac Bloomsday Run: Amazon.es: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Libros en idiomas extranjeros AÃ±adir a la Lista de deseos Â¿Tienes uno para vender? Volver atrÃ¡s Ir adelante Escuchar Reproduciendo... Interrumpido   EstÃ¡s escuchando una muestra de la ediciÃ³n de audio Audible. MÃ¡s informaciÃ³n Ver esta imagen Bloomsday: Ulysses (novel), James Joyce, Nora Barnacle, James Joyce Centre, Leopold Bloom, Davy Byrne's pub, Lilac Bloomsday Run (InglÃ©s) Tapa blanda – 11 ago 2010 Tapa blanda, 11 ago 2010 "Vuelva a intentarlo" DescripciÃ³n del producto Reseña del editor Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses. Thursday, 16 June 1904 was the date of Joyce''s first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin urban village of Ringsend. Bloomsday (a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, the 50th anniversary, when John Ryan (artist, critic, publican and founder of Envoy magazine) and the novelist Flann O''Brien organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (a dentist who, as Joyce''s cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal (Registrar of Trinity College). No es necesario ningÃºn dispositivo Kindle. DescÃ¡rgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. Apple


Which influential 19th century work on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz is prescribed at various military academies to this day?

von Clausewitz' Wit: Military Strategists 300 BC- 1930 Military Strategists 300 BC- 1930 Military Strategists 300 BC- 1930   Military Strategists- Disciples of War     The following is our list of the most influential military minds of their day. These are the great military strategists, the innovators, the inventors, pioneers, creators and trendsetters of all modern military thought and method. Some were great commanders and field tacticians, while others were behind-the-scenes planners, engineers and architects of the warfare that served the day. Whether they were great military leaders, classroom commandants, boardroom planners, armchair generals or stalwart warfare philosophers, these distinguished thinkers carried one thing in common; they all spent their lives expounding on and expanding the science of warfare, in pursuit of that one defining edge that would bring success on the battlefield. In honor of their most determined efforts to affect change on the battlefield, every succeeding military officer, cadet and trainee who has entered the field of military studies, is required to learn and understand these great philosopher’s timely recitals. Their contributions to the art of military strategy continue to make a profound impact, not only on the evolution of warfare in general but most decisively on the progression of global political power structures, which have come to define each particular era that followed.          We have made no specific ranking for our favorite strategists, except for our mentor, the good General Carl von Clausewitz, who has always been considered by most relevant military theorists to be the founder of modern military strategy. All our other distinguished military thinkers have been placed in chronological order according to time.                                     Gen. Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz Yes, the founding father of modern military strategy, made vividly clear in his world renowned thesis on the philosophy of war, On War (Vom Kriege). Our good general was brought up in the shadow of Prussian enlightenment, which was efficiently bolstered through the popular and triumphant policies of Frederick the Great. At the age of twelve he entered military service as a lance-corporal in the Prussian Army and rose through the ranks to the level of Major-General, more than thirty-five years later. In the interval, Clausewitz served during the Prussian catastrophes at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806, at the hands of Napoleon and his Grande Army. These tragic, military debacles more than anything—before or after—came to definitively shape the general’s view and subsequent philosophies about the “fog of war” and its inherent brutality and unpredictability. Under the tutelage of Gen. Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the esteemed director of the prestigious Prussian Military Academy in Berlin, Clausewitz was to form some of his most analytical and critical concepts of his later military philosophy. Those theories were also indelibly molded by the influence of such logical, Prussian philosophers as Wilhelm Friederich Hegel and Immanuel Kant. Following the Prussian’s Napoleonic disasters, Clausewitz became one of the army’s more prophetic, doctrinal revisionists, along with August von Gneisenau, Herman von Boyen and Karl von Grolman, and became instrumental in initiating the reforms of the Prussian military, which was to propel it into the most well-trained, disciplined and efficient fighting force the world had ever known.                                  Clausewitz’ most familiar assertion; that “war is merely the continuation of policy by other means”, has unjustly overshadowed some of his more pertinent theories on military philosophy. By far the most valid contribution to his field of expertise is the comprehensive analysis that attempts to define the nature of war in general, as a “fascinating trinity”, encompassing three distinct variables composed of: 1) primordial violence, hatred and enmity, which he regards as a blind natural instinct; 2) the interaction of chance and probability, which he