Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity (Routledge Focus on Literature)

This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word pity contained a broader range of meaning than it does in modern English, and was often associated with ideas such as mercy, compassion, charity, pardon, and clemency. This cluster of ideas provides Shakespeare's characters with a rich range of possibilities for engaging some of humanity's deepest emotional commitments, in which pity can be seen as a powerful stimulus for fostering social harmony, love, and forgiveness. However, Shakespeare also dramatizes pity's powerful potential for deception, when the appeal to pity is not genuine, and conceals contrary motives of vengeance and cruelty. As Shakespeare's works remain relevant for modern audiences and readers, so too does his dramatization of the powerful ways in which emotions such as pity remain essential to our understanding of our shared humanity and of our awareness of compassion's role in our own private and civic lives.

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Shawn

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Pynchon and History: Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon (Studies in Major Literary Authors)

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

History & Criticism

While many previous books on Pynchon allude to his fictional engagement with historical events and figures, this book explores Pynchon as a historical novelist and, by extension, historical thinker. The book interprets Pynchon's four major novels V., Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon through the prism of historical interpretation and representation. In doing so, it argues that Pynchon's innovative narrative techniques express his philosophy of history and historical representation through the form of his texts.

A Poem of Remembrance and Other Poems

Poetry

Pragmatic Publishings

This book, WISDOM Speaks: The Beginning of WISDOM, will assist you in your effort to get WISDOM. As stated, WISDOM has a voice and she cries out. We believe, through the women of the Bible, the WISDOM of God will flood your life. What does Eve, Lot's wife, Sarah, Hagar, Rachel, Leah, and Rebekah all have in common? They each experienced the highs and lows of life. They endured life's various trials, temptations, and tribulations. These women have stories to tell. Their lives speak the WISDOM of God we need to be better, stronger and well-equipped for life. "Everything in the Scriptures is God's Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live." (2 Timothy 3:16 CEV) God wants us to know how to live productive, prosperous and powerful lives. We do it through knowing the WISDOM of God for living.

WISDOM SPEAKS: The Beginning of Wisdom (Volume 1)

Dixon, Kimberly

Isaac, Marguerite

Moore, Markeeva

Johnson, Tylisha

Cleveland, Tracey

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

Kermit the Hermit: Quest for the Coffee Cake

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

AuthorHouse

Offers realistic violence prevention techniques to human resource personnel, front line workers who regularly deal with the public, and anyone who wants to learn practical methods to prevent aggression in schools, on the streets, and in other public places.

Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for the Workplace and the Street (The Culture Tools Series)

Self-Help

Relationships

Sentient Publications

Wayne is a piglet living life on a rural Michigan farm however things aren't all they seem to be. First there's trouble on the farm and Wayne has to get to the bottom of it. Then Peas the horse gives birth to multi-colored children, but will the farm accept them? The farm gets turned upside down when a family of migrating mice find sanctuary on the farm and he wants them to stay, but can they? Join Wayne on his farm adventure in finding his purpose and prepare for an exciting twist. Join Wayne in these farm adventures!

Letters from the Farm

Amourlegaci Publishing

This report presents a quantitative assessment of how the presentation of news has changed over the past 30 years and how it varies across platforms. Over time, and as society moved from “old” to “new” media, news content has generally shifted from more-objective event- and context-based reporting to reporting that is more subjective, relies more heavily on argumentation and advocacy, and includes more emotional appeals.

News in a Digital Age: Comparing the Presentation of News Information over Time and Across Media Platforms (Countering Truth Decay)

Computers & Technology

Blake, Jonathan S.

Kavanagh, Jennifer

Marcellino, William

Davenport, Steven

Tebeka, Mahlet G.

Networking & Cloud Computing

RAND Corporation

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