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127 p. ; 22 cm

It is Saul Bellow`s most anxious and apocalyptic novel.Published in spring 1970, winner of National Book Award ‘Mr. Sammler`s Plane’t presents a world characterized by apparently irreconcilable antithesis. The story of a sad one eyed old man of seventy plus is told against the background of the imminent Moon landing. European born and bred, Arthur Sammler is a septuagenarian, grew up as a product of enlightment. Mr Sammler has known about life and its complexities, about life and death and had presumably attained moral authority to utter opinions. Bellows` ideas are carefully grounded in Mr Sammler`s Planet, through subtle handling of metaphors. Despite his age Sammler is a man in motion, moving among the clutter of thoughts, revolutionary motion, the unbalancing and the maddening of man not only accentuate the extremities of human experience but also integrate them.

Includes bibliographical references

Beryl Larry Bellman: The Language of Secrecy. Symbols and Metaphors in Poro Ritual. Rutgers University Press (1986)

Beryl Larry Bellman: The Language of Secrecy. Symbols and Metaphors in Poro Ritual. Rutgers University Press (1986)

[74] p

[74] p

A rack of bones, a mouse in a maze, spilt milk... the grass is always greener on the other side where money does grow on trees, ruby slippers fit just right and there's a golden parachute ready to catch you. Foolproof metaphors and symbols. Photographer: Clement Mok (CMCD)

Existing studies on radical Islamist suicide missions tend to explain this phenomenon either as a desperate measure of the weak or as something unique to the Islamic context. Suicide missions, however, are hardly unique to the Islamic context. The example of World War II Japanese Kamikaze pilots comes to mind immediately. But self-destruction, too, even when it only targets the self and not others along with the self, is not unique to the Islamic context. The example of Buddhist self-immolation (through burning) comes to mind immediately; or, for that matter, that of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, who set himself on fire in December 2010, catalyzing the Arab Spring in various Arab states the following year and onwards. It is the consistent and, indeed, timeless theme of self-destruction in human history that motivated this study. My central aim in this study was to interrogate the meaning of death and existence, broadly speaking, in order to understand an individual's choice to take his or her own life. Through drawing upon philosophical discussions on the matter, particularly in terms of the assumed unequivocality of the dread of our own death and the debates surrounding the meaning of (human) existence, I argue that self destruction actually symbolizes existence in its essence. This essence, I maintain, is human agency: namely, autonomy and sovereignty over our own thoughts and actions. In order to establish the universal importance of the human desire for agency, this book draws upon temporally and contextually varied examples of self-destruction, from prisoners in Nazi death camps, to those with a political agenda, and still others in the name of love. In all these cases, the individuals concerned made a critical distinction between an authentic existence (existence with agency)and an inauthentic existence (existence without agency and one marked by passivity and

Intended to introduce students to the most dynamic aspects of language and to help them see the metaphors of poetry from a perspective beyond poetry, this book offers background information for class discussion on the pervasiveness of metaphors, giving examples of how metaphors underlie folk expressions, proverbs, riddles, cliches, and slang, and how they can shape perception of public issues. The six chapters discuss the following topics: (1) popular metaphor; (2) humor in metaphor; (3) literal comparisons and the enticement of metaphor; (4) the metaphors of poetry; (5) identifying symbols and distinguishing them from metaphor; and (6) the ultimate significance of metaphor, symbol, and language. (HTH)