Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.

A WORKBOOK FOR PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION. How would you like to: 1) Be restored to wholeness and inward freedom; 2) Master, not just barely manage, your emotional state; 3) Find the way out of depression and recover bright hope for your future; 4) Grow a great faith that no longer stumbles over anxieties and self-doubts; and 5) Break the power of illnesses that may be rooted in unresolved emotional issues. So many in the Body of Christ are stressed by anxious concerns, carrying deep pain from the past, depressed in heart and spirit or just plagued by that whole host of negative emotions which can so easily quench the simple joy of living and ruin our health in the process. Rather than being released into the glorious liberty of the children of God, many believers have become captive to their inner lives-unable to discern and exercise the keys to freedom that Jesus has given us. Matters of the Heart is a 24 lesson teaching series designed to guide believers through the basic understandings necessary for releasing emotional damage from the past and gaining a grace-based restoration to wholeness. Each chapter is filled with "tools" for practical application so that the truths of the lessons can be shifted from the head to the heart-transforming the inner life. Would you agree that your emotional state holds the key to: your enjoyment of daily life, your ability to enjoy the Lord, your ability to be guided by God Your physical health, your relationships with others, your success in work and fruitfulness in ministry. Then set your heart "on pilgrimage" to discover the life Jesus died to give you and learn how you, too, can enter far more deeply into His peace than you could ever have imagined. Learn how to bring your wounded heart to God and receive His glorious heart for you

One man's journey into a ten year living nightmare and his astonishing true story of return. Was it an insane delusion or a Satanic deception? This is a tale both incredible and terrible, yet studded with life affirming humor and hope-filled insights into the spiritual realities that surround us. From the first chapter: ..".It was then that god showed up. The divine being that had come into my off-campus farm house at Duke one and a half years earlier now reappeared. Then it had been bathed in shimmering light, filled with promise. Now it simply was there. More real than the floor and walls. More real than me. I could sense it with every fiber of my being, but I couldn't see it. Yet, its presence was in this moment more complete than any of the encounters I had had with it since its first appearance. I knew full well its past displeasure with me and shrank inwardly at realizing that it knew also how ignobly I had failed once again to find the way to rise into its higher life..." So began the Descent. Throughout history untold millions have tragically tumbled down the rabbit hole of insanity into the unsearchable depths of a shattered mind. Few have ever returned to tell about it. Part comical romp through the countercultural landscape of the '60s, part expose of the "dark side of the force," Rescued from Hell is a cross between "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Dante's "Inferno." It is the bizarre tale of an unsuspecting spiritual voyager caught in a spider web of New Age "spirituality" and cocooned in a terrifying, soul-destroying nether land that lasted for a decade. Was it an insane delusion or a satanic deception? It is simply too incredible to have been imagined...

Is peace the missing piece in your day? Emotional distress and physical disease have something in common-stress What is the antidote? The peace of Christ. Tragically, many Christians are living far below their true inheritance, engulfed in stress and captured by their own emotional life, rather than being lifted and carried on the river of peace God is sending their way each day. These 24 lessons from Healing Streams' Matters of the Heart teaching series will show you how to bring your heart to God and how to receive His Heart for you. Where our inner state is concerned, there are two great assignments which are actually gracious invitations to experience the life Jesus died to give us: The first task is restoration. Preparing our inward state to hold up under the pressures of daily life requires recovery of the natural grace that got lost along the way. For all kinds of reasons-not least of which is getting free of the pain-we need to recover from any emotional brokenness coming to us from our past. But there is another level... The second task is mastery. As we learn to manage our emotional life, we not only receive freedom from the past, but we gain the graced ability to reign with wisdom over our own emotions, making it possible to live even the most active days with deep peace and Spirit led resourcefulness. Learn to live in a river of peace