The Tears of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tears of Things write by Peter Schwenger. This book was released on 2006. The Tears of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects—such as one’s own body—situate and define us; yet at the same time they are fundamentally indifferent to us. The melancholy of this rift is a rich source of inspiration for artists. Peter Schwenger deftly weaves together philosophical and psychoanalytical theory with artistic practice. Concerned in part with the act of collecting, The Tears of Things is itself a collection of exemplary art objects—literary and cultural attempts to control and possess things—including paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe and René Magritte; sculpture by Louise Bourgeois and Marcel Duchamp; Joseph Cornell’s boxes; Edward Gorey’s graphic art; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Georges Perec, and Louise Erdrich; the hallucinatory encyclopedias of Jorge Luis Borges and Luigi Serafini; and the corpse photographs of Joel Peter Witkin. However, these representations of objects perpetually fall short of our aspirations. Schwenger examines what is left over—debris and waste—and asks what art can make of these. What emerges is not an art that reassembles but one that questions what it means to assemble in the first place. Contained in this catalog of waste is that ultimate still life, the cadaver, where the subject-object dichotomy receives its final ironic reconciliation. Peter Schwenger is professor of English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning, Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word, and Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature.
The Tears of Things
The Tears of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tears of Things write by Catherine Hamrick. This book was released on 2025-02-18. The Tears of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an interview with Krista Tippett, host of "On Being," poet Mary Oliver reflected on finding solace in nature: "I got saved by the beauty of the world." Processing broken relationships, clinical depression, and the loss of her parents, Catherine Hamrick embraced Oliver's statement and the therapeutic value of exploring nature and poetry. This collection charts her movement through middle age and landscapes in the Midwest and Deep South. Seamus Heaney's interpretation of The Aeneid's famous line sunt lacrimae rerum-"there are tears at the heart of things"-underpins Hamrick's sensibility. Observing seasonal flourishes and decay reminds us that love, joy, longing, sorrow, and gratitude arise from life's imperfection and brevity.
How To Do Things With Tears
How To Do Things With Tears - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How To Do Things With Tears write by Paul Delnero. This book was released on 2020-08-10. How To Do Things With Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contrast to other traditions, cultic laments in Mesopotamia were not performed in response to a tragic event, such as a death or a disaster, but instead as a preemptive ritual to avert possible catastrophes. Mesopotamian laments provide a unique insight into the relationship between humankind and the gods, and their study sheds light on the nature of collective rituals within a crosscultural context. Cultic laments were performed in Mesopotamia for nearly 3000 years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this important ritual practice in the early 2nd millennium BCE, the period during which Sumerian laments were first put in writing. It also includes a new translation and critical edition of Uruamairabi (‘That city, which has been plundered’), one of the most widely performed compositions of its genre.
Tears of a Tiger
Tears of a Tiger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tears of a Tiger write by Sharon M. Draper. This book was released on 2013-07-23. Tears of a Tiger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
The Crying Book
The Crying Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crying Book write by Heather Christle. This book was released on 2019-11-05. The Crying Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
