Breaking Bread With The Dead, Jacobs, Alan

Автор: Jacobs Alan
Название: Gnostic Gospels
ISBN: 1780289707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780289700
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Описание: `All of nature, its forms and creatures are interrelated; all will be returned to their original source` The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Автор: Jacobs, Alan
Название: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
ISBN: 0199747490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199747498
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Alan Jacobs offers a witty, literate, and accessible guide for aspiring readers, offering tips on what to read and how to get the most out of it. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction or poetry or even the Bible, from reading responsively, to rereading, to reading on electronic devices.

Автор: Jacobs, Alan
Название: Breaking bread with the dead
ISBN: 1788162994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788162999
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Описание: The past isn`t cancelled: it`s not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regrettable parts.

Автор: Jacobs, Alan
Название: Poems To Make The Soul Sing
ISBN: 1786783347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786783349
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Описание: A beautifully designed collection of mystical poems to soothe, inspire and rejuvenate the soul. With a body of work spanning the centuries, from the Vedas to St Teresa of Avila, Rumi and Rilke, and arranged by transcendent themes, this book will connect readers with nature, with the stillness within themselves and with the Divine.

Автор: Jacobs Alan
Название: The "book of Common Prayer ": A Biography
ISBN: 0691191786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691191782
Издательство: Wiley
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How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English language

While many of us are familiar with such famous words as "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated in The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. He shows how The Book of Common Prayer--from its beginnings as a means of social and political control in the England of Henry VIII to its worldwide presence today--became a venerable work whose cadences express the heart of religious life for millions.

Автор: Jacobs, Alan
Название: Breaking Bread With The Dead
ISBN: 1984878409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984878403
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Описание: "At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation's history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and integrity." --Shelf Awareness

From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the present

W. H. Auden once wrote that art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our personal density.

Today we are battling too much information in a society changing at lightning speed, with algorithms aimed at shaping our every thought--plus a sense that history offers no resources, only impediments to overcome or ignore. The modern solution to our problems is to surround ourselves only with what we know and what brings us instant comfort. Jacobs's answer is the opposite: to be in conversation with, and challenged by, those from the past who can tell us what we never thought we needed to know.

What can Homer teach us about force? How does Frederick Douglass deal with the massive blind spots of America's Founding Fathers? And what can we learn from modern authors who engage passionately and profoundly with the past? How can Ursula K. Le Guin show us truths about Virgil's female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen? In Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude Lйvi-Strauss, Italo Calvino, and many more.

By hearing the voices of the past, we can expand our consciousness, our sympathies, and our wisdom far beyond what our present moment can offer.

Автор: Jacobs, Alan
Название: How to think
ISBN: 1781259577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781259573
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Описание: The world is telling you what to think. Here`s how to resist.