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From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political
influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the
Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a
series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly
during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging
Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss
of its institutional legitimacy. This study is the first
international and interdisciplinary attempt to consider the scope
of the problem, analyze issues that are crucial to the Irish
context, and identify signs of both resilience and renewal. In
addition to an overview of the current status and future directions
of Irish Catholicism, The Catholic Church in Ireland Today examines
specific issues such as growing secularism, the changing image of
Irish bishops, generational divides, Catholic migrants to Ireland,
the abuse crisis and responses in Ireland and the United States,
Irish missionaries, the political role of Irish priests, the 2012
Dublin Eucharistic Congress, and contemplative strands in Irish
identity. This book identifies the key issues that students of
Irish society and others interested in Catholic culture must
examine in order to understand the changing roles of religion in
the contemporary world.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and
researchers to read the material themselves.
Two versions of George Eliot, both influential, have emerged from
the study of her life and work. One is the radical Victorian
thinker, formidably learned in a whole range of intellectual
disciplines; the other is the reclusive novelist, celebrating
through her fiction the communal values which were being eroded in
the modern world. This chronological study of the novels brings the
two together and places her within the crisis of belief and value
acted out in the mid-nineteenth century. George Eliot saw this
crisis as one of interpretation, in a vivid, almost apocalyptic
awareness that traditional modes of interpreting the world were
breaking down irrevocably. This study shows how, in response, she
redefined the nature of Victorian fiction, testing to the point of
destruction a variety of Victorian myths, orthodoxies and
ideologies in each of her novels.
This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major
figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses
to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for
themselves, for example, comments on early performances of
Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane
Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays
in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion,
and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant
pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order
to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each
volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a
selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
Two versions of George Eliot, both influential, have emerged from
the study of her life and work. One is the radical Victorian
thinker, formidably learned in a whole range of intellectual
disciplines; the other is the reclusive novelist, celebrating
through her fiction the communal values which were being eroded in
the modern world. This chronological study of the novels brings the
two together and places her within the crisis of belief and value
acted out in the mid-nineteenth century. George Eliot saw this
crisis as one of interpretation, in a vivid, almost apocalyptic
awareness that traditional modes of interpreting the world were
breaking down irrevocably. This study shows how, in response, she
redefined the nature of Victorian fiction, testing to the point of
destruction a variety of Victorian myths, orthodoxies and
ideologies in each of her novels.
'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric
acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English,
Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social
change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her
portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender
relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community
and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central
characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations
in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel
contains some of the great characters of literature, including the
idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical
Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and
grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its
whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the
pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every
subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science,
politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. This
edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
Moves beyond the basics of public speaking and addresses the
foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon.
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Silas Marner (Paperback, New ed.)
George Eliot; Edited by David Carroll; Introduction by David Carroll; Preface by Q.D. Leavis
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‘God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you’ve no right to her!’ Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot’s favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life. The text uses the Cabinet edition, revised by George Eliot in 1878. David Carroll’s introduction is accompanied by the original Penguin Classics introduction by Q. D. Leavis.
Praise for the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot "It
is the best available edition....The Clarendon format...establishes
the history of the text with impeccable research."--Journal of
English and Germanic Philology. "Clarendon editions of
nineteenth-century novels are almost invariably without
parallel."--Nineteenth-Century Literature Often considered George
Eliot's finest novel, Middlemarch is a masterpiece of literary
realism. This is the first edition of the novel to be published
with full critical apparatus since it appeared in 1871-2. It
records all the variants in the main edition as well as many of the
deletions in the manuscript. The introduction traces the history of
composition, publication, and revision.
Moves beyond the basics of public speaking and addresses the
foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon.
This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis
of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the
peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist
"aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important
extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then
on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the
1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts
of art figure in the elaboration of fascist ideology--and in the
presentation of fascism as an art of the political.
Carroll is concerned with the internal relations of fascism and
literature--how literary fascists conceived of politics as a
technique for fashioning a unified people and transforming the
disparate elements of society into an organic, totalized work of
art. He explores the logic of such aestheticizing, as well as the
assumptions about art, literature, and culture at the basis of both
the aesthetics and politics of French literary fascists. His book
reveals how not only classical humanism but also modern aesthetics
that defend the autonomy and integrity of literature became models
for xenophobic forms of nationalism and extreme "cultural" forms of
anti-Semitism. A cogent analysis of the ideological function of
literature and culture in fascism, this work helps us see the
ramifications of thinking of literature or art as the truth or
essence of politics.
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the
importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific
experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often
looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical
rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon
describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists
of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-possession
and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals
discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind.
Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood"
on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de
Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke,
Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his
inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a
literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an
openness to lawless drift.
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Camus at Combat - Writing 1944-1947 (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Edited by Jacqueline Levi-Valensi; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer; Introduction by David Carroll
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"Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.
Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a
river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being
erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood."
Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as
Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best
known for his novels including "The Stranger" and "The Plague," it
was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and his
passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public
fame.
Now, for the first time in English, "Camus at 'Combat'" presents
all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings
published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as
editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947. These
165 articles and editorials show how Camus' thinking evolved from
support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a
wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding strident
opposition to the reactionary right. These are poignant depictions
of issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for
collaborators, the return of POWs, and food and housing shortages,
to the postwar role of international institutions, colonial
injustices, and the situation of a free press in democracies. The
ideas that shaped the vision of this Nobel-prize winning novelist
and essayist are on abundant display.
More than fifty years after the publication of these writings,
they have lost none of their force. They still speak to us about
freedom, justice, truth, and democracy.
Tangled Thoughts that range from sweet/bittersweet, to grief,
regret, and jump/shout happiness form a truly delightful 'easy
read' that challenges the reader to look deep into their own lives.
Philosophical musings and reflections take the reader on a roller
coaster ride of emotions as they experience life through the eyes
of a recovering alcoholic who journals the entanglement of his
thoughts as he writes of seeing the world through sober eyes for
the first time.
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