Shadow of Babel
Title | Shadow of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Glover Wright |
Publisher | Acorn Independent Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1908318651 |
The Shadow of Babel
Title | The Shadow of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Ramon Mordechai Elinevsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Babel (city) |
ISBN |
In the Shadow of Babel
Title | In the Shadow of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Renwick Heronimo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
In 2000, I participated in an international artist workshop entitled "La Llama" (The Flame), on the Hacienda Tacata Arriba located approximately one hundred kilometers away from Caracas in the valleys of Tuy, Venezuela. This was the year after "Los Deslaves" (The Washaways), where thousands of Venezuelans were washed into the Caribbean Sea by landslides caused by days of torrential rain. This intense workshop became a period of reflection during which I tried to make sense of the contingent relation between nature, culture and the socio-political dynamics at play in Venezuela's capital city. The dramatic scars I had witnessed on the Caribbean mountainside when landing at Maiquetia airport testified to the breakdown of the fragile balance in the relationship between man and nature. I realized for the workshop, a series of riverside installations that led to points of reflection within the tranquil beauty of the workshop site. These ephemeral installations - constructed alongside and within the Guaire River - were assembled with building materials found on the hacienda, echoing the precariousness of shantytowns. Each installation consisted of different found construction elements that were installed on locations which connected visually from one site to the next, leading one along the river into the forest. The last installation was a structure composed of three door panels that created a personal cabin right in the middle of the river, a space seemingly suspended in time, where one could ponder on questions provoked by this natural disaster.
The Dragons of Babel
Title | The Dragons of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Swanwick |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765319500 |
A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner! A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey's brain to get a measure of what his subjects think. Forced out of his village, Will travels with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal. Evacuated to the Tower of Babel -- infinitely high, infinitely vulgar, very much like New York City -- Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an underling to a politician, and meets his one true love–a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to. You've heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.
The Dogs of Babel
Title | The Dogs of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Parkhurst |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2003-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0759528063 |
A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.
In Babel's Shadow
Title | In Babel's Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Tuska Benes |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780814333044 |
A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of linguistics has received remarkably little attention outside of its own discipline despite the undeniable impact language study has had on the modern period. In Babel's Shadow situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture. Author Tuska Benes investigates how the German nation came to be defined as a linguistic community and argues that the "linguistic turn" in today's social sciences and humanities can be traced to the late eighteenth century, emerging within a German tradition of using language to critique the production of knowledge. In this volume, Benes suggests that nineteenth-century philologists interpreted language as evidence of ethnic descent and created influential myths of cultural origin around the perceived starting points of their mother tongue. She argues that the origin paradigm so prevalent in German linguistic thought reinforced the historical and ethnic focus of German nationhood, with important implications for German theologians, cultural critics, philosophers, and racial theorists. In Babel's Shadow also contextualizes the importance of linguistics to modern cultural studies by arguing that the cultural significance attributed to language in twentieth-century French philosophy dates to the late eighteenth century and has clear precedents in theology. Benes links the German tradition of reflecting on the autonomous powers of language to the work of the fathers of structuralist and poststructuralist thought, Ferdinand de Saussure and Friedrich Nietzsche. In Babel's Shadow makes clear that comparative philology helped make language an important model and informing metaphor for other modes of thinking in the modern human sciences. Cultural and intellectual historians, scholars of German language and literature, and linguists will enjoy this illuminating volume.
Tower of Babel
Title | Tower of Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sears |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1641291966 |
Shamus Award–winning author Michael Sears brings Queens, New York, to literary life in this crime series debut featuring a somewhat seedy lawyer with a heart of gold (or at least gold plate). Queens, New York—the most diverse place on earth. Native son Ted Molloy knows these streets like the back of his hand. Ted was once a high-powered Manhattan lawyer, but after a spectacular fall from grace, he has found himself back on his home turf, scraping by as a foreclosure profiteer. It’s a grubby business, but a safe one—until Ted’s case sourcer, a mostly reformed small-time conman named Richie Rubiano, turns up murdered shortly after tipping Ted off to an improbably lucrative lead. With Richie’s widow on his back and shadows of the past popping up at every turn, Ted realizes he’s gotten himself embroiled in a murder investigation. His quest for the truth will take him all over Queens, plunging him into the machinations of greedy developers, mobsters, enraged activists, old litigator foes and old-school New York City operators.