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The Speed of Grace

By: Jason Mayden

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Throughout Mayden’s 20+ year career as an award-winning designer, lecturer, entrepreneur, and academic, he learned the power of addressing my inner pain. As a result, he successfully healed the hurt of personal and professional disappointment and unleashed his creativity through the filters of immersive empathy, introspective curiosity, and emotional neutrality. The Speed of Grace is not intended to be a perfect book. Instead, this collection of deeply personal reflections guides the reader through the behaviors and principles Mayden used to pursue creative, physical, professional, personal, and emotional growth. Through vulnerability, transparency, and authenticity, Mayden seeks to inspire the reader, to conquer the fears and insecurities they have yet to confront. To heal from the wounds of the past that block your blessings in present reality. To view creativity as a form of altruistic rebellion. In this moment, the power and potential of creativity in marginalized communities breaks the binds of economic disparagement, toxic environments, food insecurity, and destructive narratives. We are learning. We are healing. We are rising. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Our time is now.

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New Degree Press

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ISBN 13

9798889260011

Allegory and Enchantment

An Early Modern Poetics

By: Jason Crawford

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Allegory and Enchantment

An Early Modern Poetics

By: Jason Crawford

What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to describe their self-consciously modern orientation toward a medieval past. And many of them associate that repudiated past with the dynamics and conventions of allegory. In the hands of the major English practitioners of allegorical narrativeWilliam Langland, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyanallegory shows signs of strain and disintegration. The work of these writers seems to suggest a story of modern emergence in which medieval allegory, with its search for divine order in the material world, breaks down under the pressure of modern disenchantment. But these four early modern writers also make possible other understandings of modernity. Each of them turns to allegory as a central organizing principle for his most ambitious poetic projects. Each discovers in the ancient forms of allegory a vital, powerful instrument of disenchantment. Each of them, therefore, opens up surprising possibilities: that allegory and modernity are inescapably linked; that the story of modern emergence is much older than the early modern period; and that the things modernity has tried to repudiatethe old enchantmentsare not as alien, or as absent, as they seem.

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0191092118

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The Speed of Grace

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