The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, Burrus Virginia
Автор: Burrus Virginia Название: Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things ISBN: 0812250796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812250794 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8772.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In our age of ecological crisis, what insights—if any—can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn to excess and transgression, in search of transformation, early Christians creatively reimagined the universe and the human, cultivating relationships with a wide range of other beings—animal, vegetable, and mineral; angelic and demonic; divine and earthly; large and small. In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between early Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought. In the first section, she explores how the mysterious figure of khora, drawn from Plato's Timaeus, haunts Christian and Jewish accounts of a creation envisioned as varyingly monstrous, unstable, and unknowable. In the second section, she explores how hagiographical literature queers notions of nature and places the very category of the human into question, in part by foregrounding the saint's animality, in part by writing the saint into the landscape. The third section considers material objects, as small as portable relics and icons, as large as church and monastery complexes. Ancient Christians considered all of these animate beings, simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, protective and in need of protection, lovable and loving. Viewed through the shifting lenses of an ancient ecopoetics, Burrus demonstrates how humans both loomed large and shrank to invisibility, absorbed in the rapture of a strange and animate ecology.
Автор: Burrus Virginia Название: Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects ISBN: 0812224272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812224276 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a range of fascinating phenomena, from the flamboyant performances of martyrs to the imagined abjection of Christ, from the self-humiliating disciplines of ascetics to the intimate disclosures of Augustine. Burrus argues that Christianity innovated less by replacing shame with guilt than by embracing shame. Indeed, the ancient Christians sacrificed honor but laid claim to their own shame with great energy, at once intensifying and transforming it. Public spectacles of martyrdom became the most visible means through which vulnerability to shame was converted into a defiant witness of identity; this was also where the sacrificial death of the self exemplified by Christ's crucifixion was most explicitly appropriated by his followers. Shame showed a more private face as well, as Burrus demonstrates. The ambivalent lure of fleshly corruptibility was explored in the theological imaginary of incarnational Christology. It was further embodied in the transgressive disciplines of saints who plumbed the depths of humiliation. Eventually, with the advent of literary and monastic confessional practices, the shame of sin's inexhaustibility made itself heard in the revelations of testimonial discourse. In conversation with an eclectic constellation of theorists, Burrus interweaves her historical argument with theological, psychological, and ethical reflections. She proposes, finally, that early Christian texts may have much to teach us about the secrets of shame that lie at the heart of our capacity for humility, courage, and transformative love.
Автор: Burrus A. Embry Название: The Life We Choose: A Sibling`s Story ISBN: 0998636223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998636221 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Growing up as the sibling of someone with Down syndrome, author Embry Burrus was never really aware of her sister Margaret's disability. While writing down childhood memories to preserve Margaret's story for future generations, Burrus gained some startling insights into her parents' lives, and most unexpectedly into her own life. With humor and candor, Burrus examines how her sister has impacted, and continues to impact, those who have been fortunate enough to get to know Margaret. According to Burrus, "Margaret's heart knows no judgment, no deceit, and no hatred. She is a beautiful, perfect example of all that is good in this world." The world could certainly benefit from more of that.
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Автор: Burrus Harry Название: Layers: New & Selected Poems ISBN: 0615630456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615630458 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The poetry of Harry Burrus is highly diverse. It reveals the importance of visual imagery and movement in his imagination. In some of his poems, there are echoes of images experienced in the open street and of the close connection between everyday life, the written world, collages and art that were so important to Surrealist writers such as Andr Breton and Ted Joans. Shades of Breton's Nadja, Louis Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris, and Phillippe Soupault's Les Derni res Nuit de Paris are visible in his Paris poems. His poems of love are often poems of inquiry-a search for compassion and understanding of the other in a confused world. The quest at the heart of Harry Burrus' poetry is not merely a traversing of space and cultures, but also of time and of depth. He seeks to capture love in its various manifestations and to understand its mutability. Whether it is the love that is overwhelming in its simplicity and naturalness, as expressed in the poem "Song," or the shards of uncertainty and disintegration in "A Game of Rules," we feel that Harry Burrus has a profound understanding of the diversity and complexity of human connection-and our inner fragility. In fragments of momentary experience, he manages to capture truths that are universal about people and relationships. He insists on the difficulty, though never the impossibility, of truly coming face to face with another person. He is intensely aware that this only becomes possible in a naked awareness of our true selves and by making ourselves vulnerable to defeat. The same penetrating gaze is focused on places and diverse cultures. Many of his poems are informed by an awareness of other traditions. In one of his most beautiful poems "I Do Not Sleep With Strangers" we witness the transformation of an American into a cosmological being through his exposure to Buddhist thought and the purity of transcendental experience.
If you read the poems of Harry Burrus attentively you will realize that this is a poet of extraordinary vision, a modern day renaissance man, who draws upon a full palette of poetic styles to depict a picture of modern man and woman in all their complexity. He is aware that universal truths can be found in the most banal of experiences, if we can but perceive them. Harry Burrus knows that in each experience we also have the ability to recreate and reorient ourselves and the world around us. This is a poetry of vulnerability but also of hope, suffused with powerful imagery and a vivid imagination that never loses sight of the divine spirit within Man. Layers is the first major retrospective of his entire poetic career and, as such, offers an invaluable insight into one of our finest American poets.
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