Peregrinations
Title | Peregrinations PDF eBook |
Author | Amy T Hamilton |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-06-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1943859655 |
Peregrinate: To travel or wander around from place to place. The land of the United States is defined by vast distances encouraging human movement and migration on a grand scale. Consequently, American stories are filled with descriptions of human bodies walking through the land. In Peregrinations, Amy T. Hamilton examines stories told by and about Indigenous American, Euroamerican, and Mexican walkers. Walking as a central experience that ties these texts together—never simply a metaphor or allegory—offers storytellers and authors an elastic figure through which to engage diverse cultural practices and beliefs including Puritan and Catholic teachings, Diné and Anishinaabe oral traditions, Chicanx histories, and European literary traditions. Hamilton argues that walking bodies alert readers to the ways the physical world—more-than-human animals, trees, rocks, wind, sunlight, and human bodies—has a hand in creating experience and meaning. Through material ecocriticism, a reading practice attentive to historical and ongoing oppressions, exclusions, and displacements, she reveals complex layerings of narrative and materiality in stories of walking human bodies. This powerful and pioneering methodology for understanding place and identity, clarifies the wide variety of American stories about human relationships with the land and the ethical implications of the embeddedness of humans in the more-than-human world.
Peregrinations
Title | Peregrinations PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Grant |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2005-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0595369464 |
Peregrinations: A Man's Journey is the story of a life that may never have been, that of a man who survived a plane crash, and escaped Portland, Oregon, to become a globetrotting private banker for wealthy Middle Eastern clients. After paying his dues in Liberia under President Tubman, and in Saudi Arabia just before the oil crisis of 1973, Cedric Grant experiences the heyday of international banking, as Walter Wriston transforms Citibank into the largest financial institution in the world. Luck and perseverance combine to turn ugly twists of fate into golden opportunities, and place Cedric in a position to help save Citibank from bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
Peregrinations
Title | Peregrinations PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Davis |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2006-08-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1469109131 |
"PEREGRINATIONS is an autobiography of one of the Davis boys, believed to be descendants from a long line of pig thieves exiled from Wales as indentured servants to Virginia in the New World. This story begins with the Grandparents of the author and the Oklahoma Land rush followed by the exodus from the poverty of the Great Depression. It continues into and through World War II and up to the present with Tom just into his ninth decade of life, alive and angry at the disaster elected officials and liberals have foisted off on unsuspecting citizens.
Peregrinations of the Word
Title | Peregrinations of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Mackey |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472107360 |
An examination of medieval philosophers' approach to the relation of faith and reason
Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations
Title | Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher J. Hansen |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2010-03-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1443821039 |
Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who examines the famous BBC science fiction show as a cultural artifact in dialogue with other science fiction, with politics and religion, and with the culture at large, both in terms of how it reflects and comments upon that culture and in terms of the audience and the peculiarities of its response. This book enables researchers in film and media to make historical, industrial, aesthetic, and ideological connections between and among Doctor Who and other shows and historical events since its inception in 1963. This volume is a new entry in a relatively new area. As the young fans of Doctor Who have matured, and as many have become scholars, they are returning to the show to consider it from a scholarly perspective. It is also of use in the media studies classroom to address directly the issues presented by the longest running science fiction show in the history of the medium. Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations considers not only cultural ramifications and connections, but audience studies as well.
Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations
Title | Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations PDF eBook |
Author | William Lithgow |
Publisher | Cosimo, Inc. |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 159605154X |
An exciting and unusual book first published in 1632, Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations has been a much-ignored masterpiece of global literature, though it is one of the world's great travel tales.Beginning his travels in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland, Lithgow soon went off to explore the Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, France, and Italy. He then traveled throughout Greece, Egypt, and Malta before having a spin through Western Europe again and finally returning to Great Britain. Most notably, Lithgow survived torture by the Inquisition in Spain and later traveled throughout his native Scotland.AUTHOR BIO: One of the earliest world explorers and great men of literature, William Lithgow (1582-1645) completed his major work, The Total Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Years Travayles in 1632. It was reprinted in 1906.
The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese
Title | The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese PDF eBook |
Author | Fernão Mendes Pinto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Asia |
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