Molière's Strategies: Timely Reflections on his Art of Comedy (Medieval and Early Modern French Studies) By Walter E. Rex
2013 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 3034309201 | PDF | 4 MB
Of all the playwrights from the age of Louis XIV, only Molière's work is still regularly performed in France and beyond. This book analyses certain elements of the plays that may explain Molière's longevity: a plausible chain of events peppered with shocks and surprises; tensions between opposites; intellectual concerns that had not previously been the province of comedy; and Descriptions founded on situations that are anything but comic. These hallmarks added up to an intense type of comic theatre, meaningful in ways that gave the genre a new dimension. The author of this study does not treat Molière's plays as variations on a single prototype, but brings a fresh approach to each. The book's witty, learned and penetrating readings examine critical issues such as the ambiguous anti-feminism of Les Femmes savantes, Molière's revisions of the myth of Don Juan, 'conversion' as the theological starting point of Le Tartuffe, contrariety as the basis of comedies such as George Dandin and Le Misanthrope, and coded satire in the comédie-ballets. Each play is revealed to have a seamless comic design, while at the same time speaking to the wider world. Molière's works are shown to be entirely and immediately involved in human society, in the social dimension of the human condition.
Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780137314942 | 314 pages | True EPUB, MOBI | 8.72 MB
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code
Modern Knitted Shawls and Wraps by Laura Strutt
English | August 9, 2022 | ISBN: 1800651090 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 44.4 MB
35 knitting patterns for beautiful shawls and wraps, from a simple garter-stitch wrap in bulky yarn to a lightweight lace evening wrap for experienced knitters
Modern jаvascript for the Impatient
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0136502148 | 1323 pages | True EPUB, MOBI | 48.68 MB
Exploit the Power of Modern jаvascript and Avoid the Pitfalls
Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Jens Herlth (editor), Christian Zehnder (editor)
2015 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 3034315961 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to the sacred. However, the essays presented go beyond the original meaning of conversion as a change of religious beliefs. They address shifts in style, aesthetic outlooks, and mindsets, political and ideological transfigurations as well as religious conversions in the true sense of the term. Whether at the level of culture, society or biography, the study of conversions opens the way to profound reflections about questions of identity, cultural ruptures, and continuity. The awareness of former conversions and the possible «convertibility» of one's own ideological, spiritual or social stance has been among the central traits of Russian intellectual culture during the last two centuries.
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth (After Spirituality) By Moshe Idel
2014 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1433120135 | PDF | 7 MB
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade's ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade's attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade's personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.
Minimalist Living : The Answer To Freeing Up Time, Saving Money And Reducing Stress. by Paul Judd
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B2WJ39BD | 80 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb
More than just getting rid of stuff
Matthias Henze, "Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus"
English | 2017 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1506406424 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple period, it's essential to read what they wrote-and what Jesus and his followers might have read-beyond the Hebrew scriptures. Henze introduces the four-century gap between the Old and New Testaments and some of the writings produced during this period (different Old Testaments, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls); discusses how these texts have been read from the Reformation to the present, emphasizing the importance of the discovery of Qumran; guides the student's encounter with select texts from each collection; and then introduces key ideas found in specific New Testament texts that simply can't be understood without these early Jewish "intertestamental" writings-the Messiah, angels and demons, the law, and the resurrection of the dead. Finally, he discusses the role of these writings in the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Mind the Gap broadens curious students' perspectives on early Judaism and early Christianity and welcomes them to deeper study.
CA Rudra Murthy B V, Indrazith Shantharaj, "Mind Markets and Money: A Successful Journey Into Intraday Trading Using Market Profile and Order Flow"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1684667739 | 166 pages | PDF | 10.6 MB
Best Selling Book by Indian Authors on Market Profile!
Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging By Bruce Whitehouse
2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0253000815 | PDF | 2 MB
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.