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Afflictions Departures
Author | : Madeline Sonik |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Canadian essays |
ISBN | : 1897535678 |
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'Afflictions & Departures' is a collection of first-person experiential essays by writer and academic Madeline Sonik. Although Sonik explores some of the salient personal experiences of her young life, the essays in 'Afflictions & Departures' are not traditional memoir. In addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of of the daily events of her childhood and the social, historical, and scientific trends of the time. 'Afflicitons & Departures' begins by considering the turbulent and changing nature of the world in the late 1950s and early 1960s-the world in which the author was conceived and born. Like many couples of that era, Madeline Sonik's parents focused on shared social and economic ambitions at the expense of authentic personal feeling. These ambitions would erode and, by the 1970s, completely collapse. In 'Afflictions & Departures ' Sonik exercises both intellectual depth and emotional range. The essays are as incisive as they are deeply moving, and leave the reader with a sense of history as it was lived, not as it is codified in countless textbooks."Startlingly original, Madeline Sonik's moving story of her childhood defies all our expectations of memoir. She captures crystalline moments of childhood memory and links them in a daisy-chain with corresponding events of the tumultuous societal change taking place outside her home. It is North America in the 1960s and 70s and her letter-perfect, child's-eye view of the world brings back that time with such intensity that the reader can almost smell and taste it. Droll, tragic, and absolutely compelling, 'Afflictions and Departures' is a visceral portrayal of a family imploding." -Jury, Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction"Her memory is dustless, capacious, uncanny. With a storyteller's skill and a poet's depth of vision, she recreates her childhood with one eye on her family and the other on the larger world. Significant cultural markers sit side-by-side with the small, painful intensities of her childhood. This memoir is crammed with pathos, yet is written with a light touch. I adore the narrator who never falls into self-pity or narcissism. The clarity of her vision makes the prose gleam and transforms autobiography into art." -Lorna Crozier, author of 'Small Beneath the Sky'"Honesty has to be at the centre of any memoir, and 'Afflictions & Departures' pulsates with raw, straightforward truth. ... Sonikhas overcome enormous challenges and turned them into literary jewels. This book encourages readers to think about family, memory and history - and above all, resilience." - Times ColonistWinner of the City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeFinalist, Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fictionNominated for the BC National Award for Canadian non-Fiction
Death a vision or The solemn departure of saints and sinners represented under the similitude of a dream The third edition corrected and much enlarged
Author | : John MACGOWAN (Baptist Minister) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1771 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0019754184 |
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Death a vision or the solemn departure of Saints and Sinners represented under the similitude of a dream Second edition
Author | : John MACGOWAN (Baptist Minister) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1768 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021105787 |
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The Departure of an Apostle
Author | : Alexander N. Kirk |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2015-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161543114 |
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What was Paul's attitude toward his own death? How did he act and what did he say and write in view of it? What hopes did he hold for himself beyond death? Alexander N. Kirk explores these questions through a close reading of four Pauline letters that look ahead to Paul's death and other relevant texts in the first two generations after Paul's death (AD 70-160). The author studies portraits of the departed Paul in Acts, 1 Clement, the letters of Ignatius, Polycarp's letter To the Philippians, and the Martyrdom of Paul. He also examines portraits of the departing Paul in 1 and 2 Corinthians, Philippians, and 2 Timothy, arguing that Paul's death did not primarily present an existential challenge, but a pastoral one. Although touching upon several areas of recent scholarly interest, Alexander N. Kirk sets forth a new research question and fresh interpretations of early Christian and Pauline texts.
Hor Hagidgad An essay upon an happy departure occasioned by the decease of the valuable Mr William Waldron late pastor to one of the Churches in Boston who departed Sept 11 1727
Author | : Cotton MATHER (D.D., F.R.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1727 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : BL:A0019207750 |
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Moral Instructions of a Father to his Son upon his departure for a long voyage With an hundred maximes Christian and moral Translated from the French by P C Chamberlayne
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1683 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021113172 |
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Imperial Affliction
Author | : Thomas Simmons |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 1433108720 |
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«In many ways», Robert J.C. Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. How might these «seeds of destruction» manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with greatest access to self-affirmation - the idea of the empire, the idea of British citizenry, the idea of the British self - actually find themselves vulnerable, confused, or damaged? Using multiple forms of postcolonial critique, this book turns back to salient eighteenth-century British lives and work for a different kind of enlightenment. Among its central subjects are the elusive subjectivity of William Collins; the exilic religious experience of William Cowper and its multiple readings in the twentieth century by a self-fashioned exilic, Donald Davie; the «missed encounter» between Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson, and the ways in which that problem was re-inscribed in the work of W. Jackson Bate and Lionel Trilling; the problem of imperial fixity in James Cook's journals with a view to Gray's «Elegy» and Goldsmith's «Deserted Village»; and the problem of purity as a paradoxically privileged and exilic force in the work of John Newton and Christopher Smart. In these explorations, this book illustrates both an expanded view of eighteenth-century colonial liabilities and a new emphasis on postcolonial critique as a means of exploring the fissures always present in imperial ambition.
Correction Instruction or a Treatise of afflictions The third edition
Author | : Thomas CASE (M.A.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1653 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020722776 |
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