Myth and Mayberry
Title | Myth and Mayberry PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Barnett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Andy Griffith show (Television program) |
ISBN |
Hollow Faith
Title | Hollow Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Ingram |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2015-12-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1501810065 |
This book for youth leaders, pastors, and parents looks deep into the mirror of pop and church culture and asks the difficult, and often maddening, question, “Are those things we produce and consume defining us?” Author Stephen Ingram explores these themes of moralism, deism, meism, consumerism, pluralism, and therapeutic religion of pop culture, as well as current sociological and psychological data. Hollow Faith separates the values of the gospel from the cultural norms that have domesticated them including: How we believe we should act (The Andy Griffith Show) How we want to be known (Facebook) What we aspire to become (the American Dream) Ingram says that once we recognize these serious shifts in our faith, we can begin to have discussions, develop plans, and form actions to reclaim the vibrant, life-giving faith of the Bible. Includes a Parents Guide in the back.
His Panic
Title | His Panic PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldo Rivera |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780451224149 |
Examines the illegal immigration of Hispanics into the United States, analyzing concerns raised by this issue and arguing that much of the hatred towards these illegal immigrants is based on racism and and ignorance.
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Title | Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History PDF eBook |
Author | Yunte Huang |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 163149385X |
“An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) a trenchant “comment on the times in which we live” (Wall Street Journal). “Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called ‘the tyranny of the normal’ ” (BBC), Huang depicts the twins’ implausible route to assimilation after their “discovery” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824 and arrival in Boston as sideshow curiosities in 1829. Their climb from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich, southern gentry who profited from entertaining the Jacksonian mobs; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but an “extraordinary” (New York Times), Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for tyrannizing the other—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry
Title | Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry PDF eBook |
Author | John Railey |
Publisher | History Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-05-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781540252081 |
Learn about the real life of beloved actor Andy Griffith. The world loves Sheriff Andy Taylor. Yet the actor who played him was intensely private. Here, for the first time, is the real Andy Griffith, his career and life defined by the island that made him in the years soon after World War II. He achieved his artistic breakthrough while acting in The Lost Colony drama on Roanoke Island, then spent the rest of his life repaying the island for giving him that start. Here, in unique closeup, is Andy of Manteo, reveling in wild, watery and loving ways with his fellow islanders. Author and journalist John Railey paints an intimate portrait of Andy, based on interviews with many of those who knew him best on the sand where he lived and died.
A Star-crossed Golden Age
Title | A Star-crossed Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick A. De Armas |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838753767 |
This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants. The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.
Can't I Love What I Criticize?
Title | Can't I Love What I Criticize? PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Neal Mayberry |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2010-01-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0820336513 |
Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison’s eight novels, this book explores Morrison’s admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the “axes” on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters.Can’t I Love What I Criticize?offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrison’s call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, “outside of that little community value thing.” The book also considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a larger, historically racist culture of competition, ownership, sexual repression, and fixed ideals about physical beauty and romantic love. Black women, Morrison says, bear their crosses “extremely well,” and black men, although they have been routinely emasculated by “white men, period,” have managed to maintain a feisty “magic” that everybody wants but nobody else has. Understanding Morrison’s treatment of her male characters, says Susan Mayberry, becomes crucial to grasping her success in “countering the damage done by a spectrum of sometimes misguided isms”--including white American feminism. Morrison’s version of masculinity suggests that black men have “successfully retained their special vitality in spite of white male resistance” and that “their connections to black women have saved their lives.” To single out her men is not to negate the preeminence of her women; rather, it is to recognize the interconnectedness and balance between them.