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Burke's treatise is also notable for focusing on the physiological effects of sublimity, in particular the dual emotional quality of fear and attraction that other authors noted. Burke described the sensation attributed to sublimity as a negative pain, which he denominated "delight" and which is distinct from positive pleasure. "Delight" is ...
Rivers Into Wilderness (1932) (under penname Burke MacArthur) Land of Checkerboard Families (1932) Here Are My People (1934) (family history) The Great Amen (1938) Who Do You Think You Are? (1939) (a metaphysical treatise) Bells Above the Amazon, the Life of Hugo Mense Adventurer of the Spirit (1951) The Great Mirror (1952)
Burke's definition of man states: "Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection". [2]
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method is a book by Kenneth Burke, published in 1966 by the University of California Press. [1] As indicated by the title, the book, Burke's 16th published work, consists of “many of Burke's essays which have appeared in widely diverse periodicals” and has thus been regarded as one of the most significant resources for studying ...
According to Michael Robertson, Cosmic Consciousness and William James's 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience have much in common: [9] Both Bucke and James argue that all religions, no matter how seemingly different, have a common core; both believe that it is possible to identify this core by stripping away institutional accretions of dogma and ritual and focusing on individual ...
[8] [9] Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a supportive introduction to the book but later commented in 1926 that it was "written from a strictly psychic research point of view, and is far behind the real provable facts." [10] Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington described the book as a "fair and impartial summary." [11] His books were criticized by ...
The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in French) is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works on Spiritism. It was published by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the pen name of Allan Kardec [ 1 ] on April 18, 1857.
The Lancelot-Grail is a modern title invented by Ferdinand Lot. [1] The Vulgate Cycle (also known as the Vulgate Version of Arthurian Romances), from the Latin editio vulgata, [2] "common version", is another modern title that was popularised (albeit not invented [3]) by H. Oskar Sommer.