Christopher Collins: 23 books
Neopoetics
The Evolution of the Literate Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool...
Paleopoetics
The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and...
by Christopher Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon
On the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto...
Reading the Written Image
Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1991
Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader....
Theatre and Residual Culture
J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding...
Homeland Mythology
Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those...
by Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word...
Three Moments of the Day
Praying with the Heart of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Retreat master Christopher Collins introduces a powerful approach to both the Sacred Heart devotion and classic Ignatian spirituality.
In the tradition of Michael Gaitley’s bestselling 33 Days to Morning Glory, Three Moments of the Day presents a classic Catholic tradition in a way that is...
Fiction River Special Edition: Editor Saves
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this second Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch performs editing magic in assembling this anthology of stories saved by not one but six different Fiction River editors. Culled from stories that did not fit in the magazine’s regular run, these gems piece...
The Word Made Love
The Dialogical Theology of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From scholarly monographs to papal homilies, Joseph Ratzinger has insisted consistently over decades that Christianity is not a set of ideas to believe or, even less, moral laws to follow. Rather, Christianity is about a person and our encounter with that person.
In The Word Made Love, Christopher...
by Fiction River, Mark Leslie, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River:...
Crimes, Capers, & Rule-Breakers
20 Tales Of Mischief and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Sometimes, you gotta be bad.
Steal away with this bundle of thieves and miscreants and join them on their criminal adventures! From burglars to assassins, grifters to con artists, these are mysteries from the other side, from the criminal point-of-view.
Break some rules and snag the...
Fiction River: Feel the Love
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Love. An essential and important part of the human experience. And in Feel the Love, editor Mark Leslie takes readers on a journey through the various forms of that powerful emotion. From the heartwarming to the heartbreaking, these eighteen talented writers brilliantly capture the concept of love....
by Christopher P. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides...
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