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Hope A Literary History
Author | : Adam Potkay |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316513705 |
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Compelling treatment of a question pervading literature from antiquity: when is hope a good thing and when is it not?
Hope in ancient literature history and art
Author | : George Kazantzidis,Dimos Spatharas |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2018-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110598254 |
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Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists.
Living in Hope and History
Author | : Nadine Gordimer |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2000-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780747548232 |
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Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in. The essays and articles encompass wide-ranging and global themes from the South Africa of 1956 to the emergence of a free state in 1994, and the impact of technology.
Spaces of Hope
Author | : David Harvey |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520225783 |
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"There is no question that David Harvey's work has been one of the most important, influential, and imaginative contributions to the development of human geography since the Second World War. . . . His readings of Marx are arresting and original--a remarkably fresh return to the foundational texts of historical materialism."--Derek Gregory, author of Geographical Imaginations
History and Hope in American Literature
Author | : Ben Railton |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442276376 |
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Through the examination of literary works by twentieth and twenty-first century American authors, this book shows how literature can allow us to cope with difficult periods of history (slavery, the Great Depression, the AIDS crisis, etc.) and give hope for a brighter future when those realities are confronted head-on.
The Lion s Binding Oath and Other Stories
Author | : Ahmed Ismail Yusuf |
Publsiher | : Catalyst Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1946395072 |
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Me against my brother. Stories exploring the world of Somalia leading up to its explosive religious and ethnic war.
Hope in the Dark
Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
Publsiher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781608465798 |
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“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Invoking Hope
Author | : Phillip E. Wegner |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781452962832 |
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An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits? In Invoking Hope, Phillip E. Wegner argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and a deep and critical reading of our current situation of what Bertolt Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, or dark times. Invoking Hope was written in response to three events that occurred in 2016: the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia; the one hundredth anniversary of the founding text in theory, Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics; and the rise of the right-wing populism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump. Wegner offers original readings of major interventions in theory alongside dazzling utopian imaginaries developed from classical Greece to our global present—from Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Sarah Ahmed, Susan Buck-Morss, and Jacques Lacan to such works as Plato’s Republic, W. E. B. Du Bois’s John Brown, Isak Dinesen’s “Babette’s Feast,” Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, and more. Wegner comments on an expansive array of modernist and contemporary literature, film, theory, and popular culture. With Invoking Hope, Wegner provides an innovative lens for considering the rise of right-wing populism and the current crisis in democracy. He discusses challenges in the humanities and higher education and develops strategies of creative critical reading and hope against the grain of current trends in scholarship.