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Glory and Agony
Author | : Yael Feldman |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804777360 |
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Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking on human sacrifice, violence, and martyrdom, this study draws a complex picture that provides multiple, sometimes contradictory insights into the genesis and gender of national sacrifice. Extending back over two millennia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female—Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. Glory and Agony traces the birth of national sacrifice out of the ruins of religious martyrdom, exposing the sacred underside of Western secularism in Israel as elsewhere.
The Agony and the Glory
Author | : Vinayak Krishna Gokak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029935965 |
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The Agony Glory of the Cross
Author | : Charles B. Hodge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0979539064 |
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Alexandrina
Author | : Francis Johnston |
Publsiher | : TAN Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781505102338 |
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The Agony and Glory of the Cross
Author | : Charles B. Hodge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Churches of Christ |
ISBN | : 0976032775 |
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The Agony and Glory of the Cross
Author | : Charles B. Hodge, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0976032791 |
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Agony and the Ecstasy
Author | : Irving Stone |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:732768836 |
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Pacific Agony
Author | : Bruce Benderson |
Publsiher | : Semiotext(e) |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : IND:30000125281281 |
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An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local. "I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image into double vision; and I pictured the flat, geometrically divided western landscapes below, wondering why anyone still bothered to travel in this cookie-cutter country. What was the use of visiting identical reproductions of the same Wal-Mart or adding new encounters of equally streamlined mentality to the roster? As far as I was concerned, everything had been shorn from the same cloth, woven for years in the drab bungalows of suburban North America."—from Pacific Agony. Depressed, cynical, and subversive, East Coaster Reginald Fortiphton has been brought to Seattle by a West Coast publishing company that wants him to write a guide to the American Northwest. His job is to travel, on their dime, from Eugene, Oregon, to Vancouver, shining an admiring light on the region—which the publishers feel has been neglected by the New York publishing monopoly. Pacific Agony is his ironic attempt to fufill his assignment. To ensure that the project goes as planned, the very respectable Narcissa Whitman Applegate—notable member of the Willamette-Columbia Historical Legion and the Daughters of the Oregon Trail Historical Committee (and named after a nineteenth century missionary who was famously killed by Oregon's Nez Percé Indians)—is asked to annotate the manuscript. Her notes at the bottom of the page become progressively more outraged as the alienated Reginald's mock travel narrative skewers the region with merciless political observations—while he spirals into a depressive mania.This acidic, satirical novel hilariously eviscerates contemporary American culture at the same time that it exposes some of the darker motivations of American middle-class liberalism.