Adventures in Paradox
Author | : Charles D. Presberg |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271045965 |
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Author | : Charles D. Presberg |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271045965 |
Author | : Gary Hayden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9781435110717 |
Author | : Charles D. Presberg |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2000-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271072237 |
Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Spanish literary texts. To situate Cervantes’s masterpiece within the centuries-long praxis of paradoxical discourse in the West, Presberg surveys its tradition in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance. He outlines the development of paradoxy in the Spanish Renaissance, centering on works by Fernando de Rojas, Pero Mexía, and Antonio de Guevara. In his detailed reading of portions of Don Quixote, Presberg shows how Cervantes’s work enlarges the tradition of paradoxical discourse by imitating as well as transforming fictional and nonfictional models. He concludes that Cervantes’s seriocomic "system" of paradoxy jointly parodies, celebrates, and urges us to ponder the agency of discourse in the continued refashioning of knowledge, history, culture, and personal identity. This engaging book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics.
Author | : Gary Hayden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9781741756692 |
A fresh and exciting introduction to a huge range of logical, ethical and mathematical paradoxes that will give your intellect a workout that you can't help but enjoy.
Author | : Dave Rudden |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1405946113 |
Twelve incredible Doctor Who stories for the long winter nights featuring an exclusive extra story in the Time Lord Victorious arc! Christmas can mean anything . . . For Missy, it's solving murders in 1909. For a little girl in Dublin, it's Plasmavores knocking at the door. For Davros, it's a summons from the Doctor, who needs the mad inventor's help. The perfect collection for the bleakest - and sometimes brightest - time of the year, these are the tales for when you're halfway out of the dark . . . The perfect collection for the bleakest - and sometimes brightest - time of the year, these are the tales for when you're halfway out of the dark . . . Written by popular children's author, and lifelong Doctor Who fan, Dave Rudden, author of Twelve Angels Weeping. 'The perfect balance between tenderness and humour and terror and imagination - like the show at its very, very best' - Guardian 'The comforting yet thrilling vibe of a Doctor Who Christmas special TIMES TWELVE' - Deirdre Sullivan 'A fascinating tale' - Screenrant
Author | : Rick Ridgeway |
Publisher | : Patagonia |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781938340994 |
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which."--Amazon.
Author | : Gary Hayden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Paradox |
ISBN | : 9781435162044 |
Author | : Keith B. Darrell |
Publisher | : Amber Book Company |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2022-05-16 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : |
After confronting the mysterious time traveler who had been stalking him, Mac's pocket watch was destroyed. Now Mackenzie Mortimer’s troubles are just beginning! Mac finds himself a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by familiar people he doesn’t really know, with only Gemma, a 15-year-old clone, to guide him through the labyrinth of the future. Will the mysterious black, iron key unlock the secrets to returning him home, or is it a harbinger of his impending doom? Time is running out... but fortunately, Mackenzie Mortimer has a few more minutes than anyone else.
Author | : Simon Beames |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018-12-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 3319960628 |
This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which ‘adventurous practices’ influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education, tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term ‘adventure’ and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper inquiry.
Author | : Elizabeth C.J. Pike |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1136292411 |
Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking – are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student taking a course in sport, adventure, or outdoor education. Each chapter in the book introduces a key ‘classical’ or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal topic or issue in social theory, such as sustainability, commodification or identity. Within each of those chapters the theorist or topic is brought to life through case studies of adventurous activities and lived experiences, helping the reader to connect their own sporting and adventurous interests with the frameworks we use to understand wider culture and society. Concise and full of cutting-edge contemporary examples, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory is the perfect companion for any module on the sociology of sport, adventure or outdoor recreation.