Author: John L. Kundert-Gibbs
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637623
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.
No-thing is Left to Tell
Author: John L. Kundert-Gibbs
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637623
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637623
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature
Author: Meghan Vicks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501307231
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative – that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501307231
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative – that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.
From Something to Nothing
Author: Harry Fox
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527535037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting Judaism’s traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers, this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only approached by consideration of what is not rather than what is. Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious expression for the biblical notion of creation is “something from nothing”, whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite, which may at first seem to be illogical – creation in reverse. However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking. From Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, engaging in particular aspects that he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life, providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological and intellectual topics.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527535037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting Judaism’s traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers, this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only approached by consideration of what is not rather than what is. Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious expression for the biblical notion of creation is “something from nothing”, whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite, which may at first seem to be illogical – creation in reverse. However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking. From Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, engaging in particular aspects that he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life, providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological and intellectual topics.
Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett
Author: Katherine H. Burkman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632994
Category : Myth in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632994
Category : Myth in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.
Twenty Two Select Colloquies Out of Erasmus Roterodamus, Pleasantly Representing Several Superstitious Levities that Were Crept Into the Church of Rome in His Days
Author: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Twenty two select Colloquies ... Third impression corrected and amended. By R. L'Estrange
Cyclopaedia of English Literature
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Cyclopædia of English Literature
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Cyclopedia of English Literature
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description