Peter Deakin takes an intriguing look at 25 current and former leaders, musicians, politicians, artists and actors. He dissects each of these individuals and describes how each of them was able to summon ‘whatever it takes’ to surmount any opposition or obstacle lying in their path, in order to leave an indelible mark on the world.
This book celebrates the emergence in Australia of a range of contemporary women's writing which challenges conventional expectations of fiction. It also gives a sense of the energy behind that writing as it critically breaks down the boundaries between reader and writer, engaging them in a shared exploration.
Collection of writers speeches made at the annual presentations of the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards from 1980 to 1999. Contributors include Donald Horne, Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, David Williamson, Manning Clark, Dorothy Green, Thomas Keneally, Rosemary Wighton, Morris West, Elizabeth Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, ......
101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life Through Positive Thin
Attitude is everything. And this book will uplift and inspire readers with its stories about the power of positive thinking! In bad times, and good, readers will be encouraged to keep a positive attitude.
"Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Positive" will inspire readers with its 101 success stories about the power of a positive attitude. ......
Great writers reveal their minds and creative processes in the journals and notebooks they keep throughout their lives. This work features fascinating extracts from the collections of Henry Handel Richardson, Eric Scott, and A.D. Hope. Most of these have not previously been published.
Use Your Mind to Promote Your Own Healing and Wellness
"Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive for Great Health! "will help readers use positive thinking to improve their health with its inspirational stories and useful medical information.
The mind-body connection is powerful. Our brains are our most trusted ally in improving our physical health, whether it s recovering from a short illness, ......
The Founding Fathers are well known in the history of the United States for building the economic and political foundations of America. But who founded cultural and spiritual America? For John Fentress Gardner, it was not until the following generation that the revolutionary principles of American cultural and spiritual life were laid down by ......
Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media Old Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, ......
"Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevskys writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate"--
Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant ......
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses-on the one hand, a detachment from ......
By late 1916, Rudolf Steiner had become an important interpreter of Goethe and frequently discussed Faust--probably Goethe's greatest work--from the perspective of anthroposophic Spiritual Science. Although Steiner's readings are unconventional and unsystematic, his insights into the text are penetrating and prescient, opening scholarly avenues ......
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected ......
Feminist Literacies is a history of the truly radical feminist literary practices and pedagogies that flourished during a brief era of volatility and hope. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances ......
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century.Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia ......
Because gothic fiction was the one semi-respectable genre that regularly explored sexual and social transgressions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George Haggerty's Queer Gothic argues that it makes sense to consider the ways in which gothic fiction itself helped to shape thinking about sexual matters, create the darker shadows of ......
From Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mah'bh'rata to the Ossetian ''Nart'' tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed ......
This book examines contemporary Cinderella fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the Cinderella story's potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.
Migration, Diaspora, Exile examines narratives of affiliation and escape that imagine migration to and in Europe and the Americas in terms of kinship, community, and refuge. They investigate a broad range of literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities.
This book explores the influence of Buddhist ontology, Zen, and Confucian philosophies, as well as Jack Kerouac's own experiences in wandering and meditating in the fields and on the mountains in America, on the development and composition of his haiku.
Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat.
Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations of previously included compositions; incorporation of new text fragments identified or excavated since the last publication; all new footnotes; ......
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we ......
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeares plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase the 'fairy way of writing' to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales ......
Stories about the Special Relationship Between Fathers and Daughters
This wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between fathers and daughters provides a new reading experience for Chicken Soup fans, with our 101 best stories written by fathers and daughters about each other, celebrating the special bond between fathers and daughters as they move through all of life's different phases.
There are sons who grow up unhappily believing that no matter what they do, they cannot please their fathers. These are the ''loser sons,'' a group of historical men as varied as President George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, and Mohammed Atta. Their names quickly illustrate that not only are their problems serious, but they also make serious problems ......
Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are ''documents'' of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ......
Beginning with the most general and moving to focused topics, this work provides a rationale for continuing to engage the Old Testament in the modern world. Combining his research strengths in the literary history of Israel, form criticism, and tradition history with the history of religions, this volume covers narrative, prophecy, and the Psalms. ......
Jacques Lacan and Gabriel Marcel read Paul Claudel
This powerful study is based on the premise that literary theory is important because literature is important. Bugliani explores the intersection of tragedy with philosophy and psychoanalysis.
McKenna explicates key elements of the anthropology of Rene Girard and the literarytheory of Jacques Derrida in terms of each other--to create an interpretive strategy that hehopes will ''salvage deconstruction from the flashy sterility it favors.''
Representation of the Banlieusard in Literature, Cinema, and Performances: Francephobia explores the complex identity of the banlieusard within French society through literature, film and pop culture, such as rap music and stand-up comedy. The banlieue, known in English as the "inner city," is home to underrepresented and marginalized descendants ......
