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Poetics, the 'science' of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. After an introductory chapter of definition and clarification, Professor Berlin concentrates on two areas of special concern -character and point of view. Analysis of the types of character to be seen in the stories of David's wives leads to a survey of the main techniques which produce characterization (chapter II). We are then shown (chapter III) how the surface structure of the text, the discourse, indicates the various points of view in the narrative and how multiple points of view are integrated in a text. Interpretation comes to the fore again with an analysis of the Book of Ruth (chapter. IV) illustrating concretely the application of these principles of poetics. The literary approach is then related (chapter V) to the major diachronic approaches in biblical studies, source criticism and form criticism. Finally (chapter VI) we return to the idea of biblical narrative as an artistic representation and the author sums up of some of its most important techniques. This book is an invaluable introduction and guide to re searcher, teacher and student-to all who wish to learn more about the discipline of literary study of the Bible.

Psychoanalysis as a form of therapy works by attending to the patient's side effects, that is, 'what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking'. Undergoing psychoanalytic treatment is in many ways like reading a powerful work of literature - a leap into the dark, an opportunity to think the strangeness of your own thoughts. It is impossible to know beforehand the effect it will have. All we can do, as the essays in this book suggest, is see where the side effects will lead us. And that is part of the excitement of being alive. Adam Phillips guides the reader in this fascinating journey into the links between psychoanalysis, literature and the living of our everyday lives.

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The king's clever treasurer tries to clear his name when the chief minister accuses the treasurer of stealing.

Kings and Queens have always provided their subjects with a great deal to talk about. But how much do we really know about them? For instance, who became king when he was only nine months old? Which king invented the handkerchief? Which king died on the toilet? And who is England's longest reigning monarch? In this fascinating and witty look at kings and queens of England, Tony Robinson provides all the answers to these questions and many, many more.

Michelle begins attending group sessions to help her deal with her parents' divorce, but her increasingly intense involvement with the group's charismatic leader leads to even bigger problems for both her and her mother.

Hivai, a prophet from the ancient village of Gibeon, is exiled from his home when his prophesy of an attack on the village proves to be false, and joins a small band of traveling Hebrews, enemies of the Gibeonites

Take a voyeuristic peep through the curtains of kosher love. From the naïve sexual fantasies of a seminary girl, to a key-hole view of private marital moments, you'll get a taste of it all in these four short tales of Jewish sex, lust and yearning. Set inside the Orthodox Jewish world, these tales are so intimate and real that you'll feel like you've been spying on your neighbors!

A Guest for the Night (first published in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland) is Agnon's depiction of how all modern movements aside from Zionism secularism, Haskalah, socialism, communism failed to provide a viable alternative to traditional life. But, he is clear, even traditional life was untenable, because it all fell apart from within before the first furnaces were ignited in Auschwitz. Even the Guest's well-intentioned attempt to revivify and to re-engage the lost world of piety is also doomed. The Alte Heim, the old home, can no longer exist it is a place where we can only be passing guests for the night. Therefore you can't go home again, but not for the reasons that Thomas Wolfe suggests; rather, because home no longer exists. It has to be rebuilt, but it can only be rebuilt in the Bayit Hadash, in the new home in the Land of Israel. This is Agnon's greatest theme in the novel and, in differing ways, throughout his body of writing: The idea that modern man, modern Jews, are alienated from their spiritual home. While we can't go home again, that doesn't mean we can't move forward through conceiving of a new home although doing so comes with the great danger of being caught in the disconnect between the old and the new, between what was and what might be. Translated by Misha Louvish, with a new Foreword by Jeffrey Saks.

As the final months of British rule spiral to a close, Kate, one of Hong Kong's most expensive call girls, and Rosie, her housemate and fellow-courtesan, live the glamorous, whirlwind life of the elite, but there are darker undercurrents which threaten to consume them. And when the unthinkable happens, they know they have to take action--

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Man-of-Words/West Indies (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) [Apr 01, 1983] Abrahams, Professor Roger …

"An ex-Soviet professor plays amateur detective in this post Cold War romp by New York Times bestselling spy master Robert Littell. Lemuel Falk, a theoretical "chaoticist," has been denied permission to leave Russia for the last twenty-three years, likely because he knows a few state secrets. Even he is surprised-and wary-when his twenty-fourth request is approved, and he is offered a position as visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Chaos-Related Studies in upstate New York. But as soon as Professor Falk arrives in America, he is plunged into a new kind of chaos-including a high-stakes academic catfight, an affair with a much-younger hairdresser, and cascading offers from domestic spies looking to capitalize on his knowledge-and soon finds himself playing amateur detective at the behest of local police. While he helps hunt for a dangerous serial killer, he grapples with ghosts from his own past in Russia. In this wholly original novel, Littell explores chaos theory, questions of faith, ad the ironies of contemporary America"-- Provided by publisher.