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An extraordinary story of a young man from Africa who tries hard to reconcile the ways he had grown up with, and those he was experiencing in his host country - Great Britain. The story is set in Coventry, in the English Midlands and is told by Dion Ekpochaba, a postgraduate student at the University of Warwick. Dion, fresh from his motherland, Cameroon, loses an amulet, a cherished heritage of his ancestry and becomes desperate about the loss. He meets an elderly English man, Tom Jones who makes a startling revelation: the amulet had just been desecrated by his dog and thrown into the depths
Friendship --- Cameroonians --- University of Warwick --- Graduate students
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Friendship. --- Affection --- Friendliness --- Conduct of life --- Interpersonal relations --- Love --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Friendship --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- Delezi, Jier, --- دولوز، جيل
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For decades, the study of literary and philosophical modernism concerned solitary figures like the flâneur, the exile, and the lonely genius, but recently the group formations that fostered modernist movements have emerged into view. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics: The Poetics and Politics of Friendship pursue this new direction in modernist scholarship, exploring the ways artists and intellectuals worked in concert and in conflict. Placing group formations, with all their promises an...
Modernism (Literature) --- Friendship. --- Affection --- Friendliness --- Conduct of life --- Interpersonal relations --- Love --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements
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Actively engages love in the practice of philosophy
Love --- Religion --- Philosophy. --- Love. --- Love (Theology) --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity
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Love and evil are real – they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naïve realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post-Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being.
Love. --- Good and evil. --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- 216 --- Goed en kwaad --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities
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The Verge of Philosophy is both an exploration of the limits of philosophy and a memorial for John Sallis's longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe. Sallis's reflections are given added weight-even poignancy-by his discussion
Philosophy. --- Plato. --- philosophical, academic, scholarly, memorial, jacques derrida, interpretation, heidegger, question, platonic, good, discourse, plato, analysis, chora, universe, reflection, public, private, conversation, friendship, interpersonal, generosity, end of life, death, music, college, university, textbook, professor, classroom, student, educational.
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As the heady promise of the 1960's sagged under the weight of widespread violence, rioting, and racial unrest, two young men--one black and one white--took to stages across the nation to help Americans confront their racial divide: by laughing at it. Tim and Tom tells the story of that pioneering duo, the first interracial comedy team in the history of show business--and the last. Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen polished their act in the nightclubs of Chicago, then took it on the road, not only in the North, but in the still-simmering South as well, developing routines that even today remain surprisingly frank--and remarkably funny--about race. Most nights, the shock of seeing an integrated comedy team quickly dissipated in uproarious laughter, but on some occasions the audience's confusion and discomfort led to racist heckling, threats, and even violence. Though Tim and Tom perpetually seemed on the verge of making it big throughout their five years together, they grudgingly came to realize that they were ahead of their time: America was not yet ready to laugh at its own failed promise. Eventually, the grind of the road took its toll, as bitter arguments led to an acrimonious breakup. But the underlying bond of friendship Reid and Dreesen had forged with each groundbreaking joke has endured for decades, while their solo careers delivered the success that had eluded them as a team. By turns revealing, shocking, and riotously funny, Tim and Tom unearths a largely forgotten chapter in the history of comedy.
Comedians --- Reid, Tim, --- Dreesen, Tom. --- Tim and Tom. --- race, racism, civil rights movement, comedy team, interracial, tom dreesen, tim reid, nightclubs, standup, tour, racial divide, show business, entertainment, on the road, biography, comics, violence, heckling, success, comedians, solo career, duo, black, whiteness, social change, riots, chicago, american south, friendship, nonfiction.
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The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. The present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary history. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier , long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End , which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’; and Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’. In these, as in most of his books, Ford renders and analyses the crucial transformations in modern society and culture. One of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his time. In the South-East of England at the fin-de-siècle , he collaborated for a decade with Joseph Conrad, and befriended Henry James and H. G. Wells. In Edwardian London he founded the English Review , publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis. After the war he moved to France, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Besides his role as contributor and enabler to various versions of Modernism, Ford was also one of its most entertaining chroniclers. This volume includes twelve new essays on Ford’s engagement with the literary networks and cultural shifts of his era, by leading experts and younger scholars of Ford and Modernism. Two of the essays are by well-known creative writers: the novelist Colm Tóibín, and the novelist and cultural commentator Zinovy Zinik.
Friendship. --- Affection --- Friendliness --- Conduct of life --- Interpersonal relations --- Love --- Ford, Ford Madox, --- Hueffer, Ford Madox, --- Hueffer, H. Ford, --- Huffer, Ford, --- Chaucer, Daniel, --- Hueffer, Ford Hermann, --- Hueffer, Ford M. --- Hueffer, Ford H. --- Haig, Fenil, --- Friends and associates. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Ford, Ford Madox
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The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed.
English literature --- Emotions in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Friendship in literature. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Literary discourse analysis --- History and criticism. --- History --- Sidney, Philip, --- Milton, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Sidnei, Philippe, --- Sydney, Philip, --- Сидни, Филип, --- Sidneus, Philippus --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra
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In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity. In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe ( A Discovery of Strangers ) and Robert Kroetsch ( The Man from the Creeks ), Nonnekes ranges from Hegel to Lacan, and Butler and Kristeva to Žižek, eliciting an evolving conception of love characteristic of the Canadian cultural imaginary.
Masculinity --- Love --- Masculinity in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- Masculinit --- Amour --- Hood, Robert (Personnage fictif) --- Peek (Personnage fictif) --- Masculinité dans la littérature. --- Amour dans la littérature. --- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature. --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique. --- Wiebe, Rudy, 1934 --- -Kroetsch, Robert, --- Characters --- Robert Hood. --- Peek. --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Affection --- Hood, Robert --- Peek --- Hood, Robert (Fictitious character) --- Peek (Fictitious character) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Masculinité --- Wiebe, Rudy Henry, --- Kroetsch, Robert, --- Kroetsch, Robert Paul, --- canadian masculinity --- masculinity --- norther masculinity
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