Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-Dissolution

Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-Dissolution

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  • Author: Sonia Petisco
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491341803
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 184

This book includes a collection of essays on the poetry of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), one of the most relevant spiritual masters of the twentieth century. These scholarly inquiries are all glimpses which accurately represent his poetics of dissolution-the dissolution of the old corrupt world in favour of an apocalyptic vision of a new world. Este libro incluye una colección de ensayos sobre la poesía de Thomas Merton (1915-1968), uno de los maestros espirituales más relevantes del siglo XX. Todas estas investigaciones académicas dejan entrever lo que representa exactamente su poética de desintegración: la descomposición del viejo mundo corrupto a favor de una visión apocalíptica de un nuevo mundo, categorizaciones abstractas de lo sobrenatural que dan paso a una experiencia íntima y más dinámica de lo sagrado en el hogar y en el mundo.


Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-dissolution

Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-dissolution

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  • Author: Sonia Petisco Martínez
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  • ISBN: 9788437099538
  • Category : Electronic books
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 178


Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-Dissolution

Thomas Merton's Poetics of Self-Dissolution

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  • ISBN: 9788437099248
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184


African American Women's Literature in Spain

African American Women's Literature in Spain

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  • Author: Sandra Llopart Babot
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8411181707
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

This volume brings forward a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. Drawing from a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, it traces the translation history of literature produced by African American women, seeking to uncover changing strategies in translation policies as well as shifts in interests in the target context, and it examines the topicality of this cohort of authors as frames of reference for Spanish critics and reviewers. Likewise, the reception of the source literature in the Spanish context is described by reconstructing the values that underlie judgements in different reception sources. Finally, this book addresses the specific problem of the translation of Black English into Spanish. More precisely, it pays attention to the ideological and the ethical implications of translation choices and the effect of the latter on the reception of literary texts.


Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis

Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis

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  • Author: John Howard
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491349588
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner ‘Zorba the Greek’, Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.


Benjamin Drew

Benjamin Drew

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  • Author: Vicent Cucarella Ramon
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491349138
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Benjamin Drew’s "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement’s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.


American Quaker Romances

American Quaker Romances

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  • Author: Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491349103
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.


The Slave's Little Friends

The Slave's Little Friends

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  • Author: Carme Manuel
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491349618
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 446

The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about “the abominations of slavery” became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation’s edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children’s innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.


Indigenizing the Classroom

Indigenizing the Classroom

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  • Author: Anna M. Brígido Corachán
  • Publisher: Universitat de València
  • ISBN: 8491347496
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

In the past four decades Native American/First Nations Literature has emerged as a literary and academic field and it is now read, taught, and theorized in many educational settings outside the United States and Canada. Native American and First Nations authors have also broadened their themes and readership by exploring transnational contexts and foreign realities, and through translation into major and minor languages, thus establishing creative networks with other literary communities around the world. However, when their texts are taught abroad, the perpetuation of Indian stereotypes, mystifications, and misconceptions is still a major issue that non-Native readers, students, and teachers continue to struggle with. To counter such distorted representations and neo/colonialist readings, this book presents a strategic selection of critical case studies that set specific texts within cross-cultural contexts wherein Native-based methodologies and key concepts are placed at the center of the reading practice. The challenging role of teachers and researchers as potential intermediaries and responsible disseminators of what Gayatri C. Spivak calls “transnational literacy” as well as the reception of Native North American works, contexts, and themes by international readers thus becomes a primary focus of attention. This volume provides a set of critical analyses and practical resources that may enable teachers outside the United States and Canada to incorporate Native American/First Nations literature and related cultural and historical texts into their teaching practices and current research interests in a creative, decolonizing, and responsible manner.


The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

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  • Author: John D. Morgenstern
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • ISBN: 1942954557
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual features the year’s best scholarship on this major literary figure.