1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791402103321

Autore

Sussman Henry

Titolo

Around the book [[electronic resource] ] : systems and literacy / / Henry Sussman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-4117-3

0-8232-3285-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 319 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

002.09

Soggetti

Criticism

Social systems

Literature - Philosophy

Books - History

Books and reading - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? -- Atmospherics of mood -- Thinking flat out : back to Bateson.

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book, this study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'prevailing operating system' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique and science.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808954403321

Autore

Cook Chris (Christopher C.H.)

Titolo

Finding God in a holy place : explorations of prayer in Durham Cathedral / / Chris Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Mowbray, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-87480-2

9786612874802

1-4411-5001-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

245.3

248.32

Soggetti

Prayer - Church of England

Sacred space - England - Durham

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Finding a Holy Place: Durham Cathedral; 2 Finding God in a Holy Place; 3 An Invitation to Pray: The Nave and the Body of the Church; 4 Daily Prayer: The Quire and Sanctuary; 5 Praying on the Margins: The Galilee Chapel; 6 Pilgrim Prayer: The Chapel of the Nine Altars; 7 Contemplative Prayer: The Feretory; 8 Holy Places: Finding Ourselves and Finding God; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'A holy place...is a place that becomes a gateway to heaven', writes Chris Cook, 'a place in which we are aware of the presence of God.' These places may be geographical or architectural, or they may be metaphorical: places of loss, or achievement, or transition. This book explores prayer in holy spaces: physical places where we can go to be nearer to God. It is focused on one particular place - Durham Cathedral (voted the country's best-loved building) - but it is designed to enable the reader to explore prayer in other holy places also. It is a practical guide to prayer which takes into accoun