The Writing of the Disaster, Paperback - Maurice Blanchot

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust--grief, anger, terror, and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotTranslator: Charlotte MandellMaurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the rela...

Reducere. This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the...

Reducere. THE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is...

Reducere. Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader ma...

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotAuthor: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Elizabeth RottenbergThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critic...

Reducere. Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The...

Reducere. This book was originally published in 1870. At the time, George Mackenzie Bacon was a medical superintendent at Cambridgeshire County Asylum (now F...

Reducere. "Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogen...

The Writing of God presents proof of the seminal event of the Old Testament, when God handed down to Moses the word and the "writing of God" (Exodu...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the fascinating true story of a family tragedy behind the writing of the beloved hymn, It Is Well With My Soul in the 19th centu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hl FourieThe Writing of Middle Earth will introduce you to the fascinating Hobbit and dwarfish runes and to the mysterious ...

Reducere. A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitz...

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Reducere. The Story Behind THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE If you've read his books THE WAR OF ART and TURNING PRO, you know that for thirty years Steven Pressfie...

Reducere. How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is ...

The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?" As anyone on Broadway will tell you, th...

Flodoard of Rheims (893/4-966) is one of the tenth century's most intriguing but neglected historians, who wrote in the tumultuous decades that fol...

This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of i...

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Dr. Aaron (Independent Scholar, USA) HillyerNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 15...

Publisher: FantagraphicsAuthor(s): R.O. BlechmanIllustration(s): 488 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Reducere. Freddy Meyers was a frustrated 10-year-old. Too big to be little and too little to be big. One day though, he was just the right size - for danger....

Reducere. DescriptionThe figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social pheno...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the closing days of World War II a crisis was emerging for German civilians trapped on the Eastern Front by the Red Army. Many lived ...

Reducere. In 1985 in Columbia, more than 23, 000 people died due to the government's failure to take seriously scientists' warnings about an imminent volcani...

Over the last sixty years many radicals have had their eyes opened by the writing of Maurice Brinton. The most prolific writer of the British Solid...

Reducere. "Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated ...

Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Stephen KeaneNumber of pages: 144Collection: ShortcutsPublication date: 2006Dimensions: 201 x 149 x 10Cover t...

Reducere. If there has ever been a time that the saints of God must be alert and knowledgeable about spiritual warfare, it is now. By the grace of God and th...

Barry Gibson is desperate for something exciting to happen to him like in his comic books. His twin sister, Megan is sick of listening to his wild ...

Passengers cancelling their tickets for Titanic's maiden voyage out of apprehension; a famous social reformer who died on Titanic, warned in 1911 t...

Description"Remember the Future" is a candid and insightful guide for the average person to find their own success by identifying and maneuvering t...

Reducere. This book discusses consciousness, the perception of reality, the nature of eternity, the recurrence of life, the creation of NOW and the psycholog...

Writing the Natural Way, first published fifteen years ago, has shown hundreds of thousands of readers how to turn the task of writing into the joy...

Reducere. On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2, 500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaste...

Contributor(s): Author: Steve ChandlerIn RIGHT NOW, Steve Chandler shows us how to embrace the truth, the beauty and the infinite possibilities tha...

Reducere. "If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."Maurice Maeterlinck received the 1911 Nobel Prize f...