From the opening words of Genesis to the final vision of Revelation, Scripture reveals God through His Names.Elohim. YHWH. El Roi. El Shaddai. The Shepherd. The Redeemer. The Lamb. Alpha and Omega.Each Name reveals something true about God's character: His power, His covenant faithfulness, His mercy, His justice, and His presence among His people. Yet none of these Names stand alone. Each one points forward to a greater revelation.In The Names of God: Fulfilled ...

Seen Yet Unseen: Understanding God's Self-Revelation from the Fall to the Son invites readers to explore Scripture through a Christ-centered lens that brings clarity, coherence, and hope to the whole biblical narrative.Many believers struggle to reconcile the God revealed in the Old Testament with the compassion and mercy revealed in Jesus Christ. This tension has led to confusion, fear, and fractured faith for countless readers. Seen Yet Unseen gently add...

This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Contributors tackle a broad range of themes, including how prose fiction addresses spaces of intimacy, abjection, espionage, discipline, madness, post-human identities, post-communist cities, ...

God loves you ... dive in to see His love more clearly!What if God was never the angry, distant, or violent Being many assumed Him to be?What if the stories that trouble us in Scripture were accurate-but incomplete until the revelation of Jesus Christ?For generations, believers have wrestled with the tension between the seemingly harsh God of the Old Testament and the compassionate God revealed in Jesus. Seen Yet Unseen confronts that tension head-on and offers a tr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Seen Yet Unseen: Understanding God's Self-Revelation from the Fall to the Son invites readers to explore Scripture through a Christ-centered lens that brings clarity, coherence, and hope to the whole biblical narrative.Many believers struggle to reconcile the God revealed in the Old Testament with the compassion and mercy revealed in Jesus Christ. This tension has led to confusion, fear, and fractured faith for ...

"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works...

Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associat...

The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, or...

Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short storiesan accessible overview of the contexts and many interpretations of...

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in manufacturing to computers and the internet, technology has reconfigured our relationship to ourselves, each other, and to the tools and material we use.The book considers such key topics as the legacy of late-nineteenth ...

The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from ...