Author: Julian Wolfreys File Type: pdf Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of theory today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard isms Literary Reading in a Digital Age Critical Making in the Digital Humanities Thing Theory Memory Work and Criticism Body, Objects, Technology Criticism and The Animal Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study Critical and Creative Practice Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop Affect Theory Spectrality Critical Climate Change.A final rounding off chapter on Historicising presents debates around historically oriented criticism, including a round table among the contributors. Each chapter also provides a critical case study of a text or texts, including poetry writing guides, a Seamus Heaney poem, film adaptations of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlanes The Old Ways.From Thing Theory to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation in critical modes of thinking. **

Author: W. R. Paton File Type: pdf The Greek Anthology(Gathering of Flowers) is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called Stephanus, wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth, called the Circle, by Agathias of Myrina. These (lost) and others (also lost) were partly incorporated, arranged according to contents, by Constantinus Cephalas (early 10th century?) into fifteen books now preserved in a single manuscript of the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. The grand collection was rearranged and revised by the monk Maximus Planudes (14th century) who also added epigrams lost from Cephalass compilation.The fifteen books of the Palatine Anthology are I, Christian Epigrams II, Descriptions of Statues III, Inscriptions in a temple at Cyzicus IV, Prefaces of Meleager, Philippus, and Agathias V, Amatory Epigrams VI, Dedicatory VII, Sepulchral VIII, Epigrams of St. Gregory IX, Declamatory X, Hortatory and Admonitory XI, Convivial and Satirical XII, Stratos Musa Puerilis XIII, Metrical curiosities XIV, Problems, Riddles, and Oracles XV, Miscellanies. Book XVI is the Planudean Appendix Epigrams on works of art.Outstanding among the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius.The Loeb Classical Library edition is in five volumes. Volume I contains Books IVI Volume II, Books VIIVIII Volume III, Book IX Volume IV, Books XXII Volume V, Books XIIIXVI.

Author: Giovanni Stanghellini File Type: pdf To be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept used by the author to address, in a coherent way, three essential issues for clinical practice What is a human being?, What is mental pathology?, and What is care?. In this book Stanghellini argues that to be human means to be in dialogue with alterity, that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of ones dialogue with alterity, and that care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world. This essay is an attempt to re-establish such a fragile dialogue of the soul with herself and with others. Such an attempt is based on two pillars a dialectic, person-centered understanding of mental disorders and values-based practice. The dialectic understanding of mental disorders acknowledges the vulnerability constitutive of human personhood. It assumes that the person is engaged in trying to cope, solve and make sense of new, disturbing, puzzling experiences stemming from her encounter with alterity. Values-based practice assumes that the forms of human life are inherently plural. Value-pluralism and recognition are the basis for care. This statement reflects the ideal of modus vivendi that aims to find terms in which different forms of life can coexist, and learn how to live with irreconcilable value conflicts, rather than striving for consensus or agreement. Care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world. It includes practices that belong both to logic - e.g., the method for unfolding the Others form of life and to rescue its fundamental structure - and empathy - e.g., the readiness to offer oneself as a dialoguing person and the capacity to resonate with the Others experience and attuneregulate the emotional field. **

Author: Tarik Sabry File Type: pdf In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society. The diverse themes and locations explored include communities at borders, in rural and urban locations, Syrian drama audiences, Egyptian, Saudi and Tunisian artists and activists and historical and contemporary Arab intellectuals. This fresh empirical research and interdisciplinary analysis illuminate intricate experiences that transcend local, national and religious boundaries and expose how Arab publics combine the media and technology to create a rich experience that shapes their collective imagination and social structure. Providing a grounded orientation to key debates on time and what can be defined as public in modern Arab cultures, Sabry and Khalil address teachers, students and those concerned about the delicate structures that underpin the upheavals of the modern Arab world.