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Understanding Charles Johnson

By: Gary Storhoff

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Understanding Charles Johnson offers a critical introduction to the fiction of one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary writers and the first African American male since Ralph Ellison to win the National Book Award, which Johnson received in 1990 for Middle Passage. In addition to providing a biographical sketch, Gary Storhoff analyzes Johnson's four novels and two volumes of short stories. Describing his body of work as unique in American fiction, Storhoff explains how philosophical and religious orientations differentiate Johnson's writings and challenge his readers. Storhoff explores the merging of Johnson's philosophical and spiritual interests with his concern for African American culture. In identifying the literary principles of Johnson's texts, Storhoff emphasizes the writer's commitment to Buddhism and demonstrates its impact on his themes, characters, narratives, and rhetoric. Suggesting that Buddhism is the linchpin of Johnson's work, Storhoff acknowledges that scholars and critics are aware of Johnson's close association with the tradition but provides readers with what they need to appreciate fully its importance in his work. which includes a Ph.D. in the subject. Storhoff explicates the influence of the British empiricists, including Bishop George Berkeley, on the novelist; his rejection of relativism and utilitarianism; his adaptation of Aristotelian ethics; and his ambivalent treatment of American pragmatism as recently propounded by Cornel West. Johnson emerges from Storhoff's discussion as a profoundly eclectic, sophisticated, interdisciplinary writer, with complex views on race relations in the twenty-first century.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570035628

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Nobody Home

Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places

By: Gary Snyder,Julia Martin

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Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places

By: Gary Snyder,Julia Martin

In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively—globally, locally, and in their personal lives—and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a generous distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice. At the project’s heart is Snyder’s understanding of Buddhism. Again and again, the conversations return to an explication of the teachings. Snyder’s characteristic approach is to articulate a direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder’s life as lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in history. This means that whatever “topic” a dialogue explores, there is a sense that all of it is about practice—the spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.

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Trinity University Press

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1595342524

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9781595342522

Breast Cancer: Uses and Opportunities for Molecular Imaging, An Issue of PET Clinics

By: Elizabeth McDonald,Gary A. Ulaner

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Breast Cancer: Uses and Opportunities for Molecular Imaging, An Issue of PET Clinics

By: Elizabeth McDonald,Gary A. Ulaner

This issue of PET Clinics focuses on Breast Cancer: Uses and Opportunities for Molecular Imaging, and is edited by Drs. Elizabeth McDonald and Gary A. Ulaner. Articles will include: Overview of Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis; Nuclear Imaging for Osseous Staging; Therapeutic Role of FDG in Breast Cancer: Treatment Response; Clinical Potential of HER2 Receptor Imaging; Novel Targets for Imaging Breast Cancer: Amino Acid Imaging with Fluciclovine; Overview of Breast Cancer Therapy; Molecular Classification of Breast Cancer; Clinical Potential of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Imaging; Diagnostic Role of FDG in Breast Cancer: Discovery to Current; Imaging Breast Cancer Proliferation; Dedicated Breast Gamma Camera Imaging and Breast Positron Emission Tomography: Current Status and Future Directions; and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323610633

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9780323610636

Understanding Charles Johnson

By: Gary Storhoff

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By: Gary Storhoff

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Breast Cancer: Uses and Opportunities for Molecular Imaging, An Issue of PET Clinics

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Understanding Charles Johnson

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