Format:
Online-Ressource (298 p)
ISBN:
9780226030944
Content:
Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding. But is a pilgrimage even possible these days for city-dwellers enmeshed in the pressures of work and family life? Or is there a way to be a pilgrim without leaving one's life behind? James Attlee answers these questions with Isolarion, a thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of his pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew-the Cowley Road in Oxford, right outside his door. Isolarion tak
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; First Partition; Embarkation; Purification; Of Music and Cannibalism; Doing My Part; The Melancholy Pilgrim; Bread and Circuses; Boucherie Chatar; Designated Desire-Lines: Planning a New Road; Further Purification of the Pilgrim; Enrobed; Of Love and Jewels; Behind the Blue Door (Inside the Private Shop); From the Literal to the Allegorical and Back; Wittgenstein's Lion and a Cappuccino Sea; Virtual Streets and Gateways: The Plans Revisited; Cosmonauts and Coleslaw; St. Edmund's Well and a Faded Warning; Second Partition; Making Do and Getting By
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Egyptian Vagabonds, Afternoon Men, andthe Malus Genius of Our NationLosing the Key; Bed-Sits and Bira¯rdari; What They Think You Can Bear: Football, Religion,and Nightmares on the Cowley Road; Between Two Fires: Pulling the Dragon's Teeth; Melancholy, an American Photographer, and the Irish Writer; Cowley Road Calling; Just Less Lucky; Dreadlocks and Rim-Shots: Reggae at the Zodiac; Of Lepers, Lunatics, and Layabouts; Dancing Sand and Zum-Zum Water; Junior Jihad; Of Books and Bitumen; Carnival; Returning to the Source; third partition; A Journey in the Hinterland; Into the Furnace
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Blessings and TribulationA Graveyard Reborn; Finding a Clue; Of Bats and Mutton Curry; Margaret's Story; A Hidden Pool; The Liquid Kingdom; The Gateways Close; Of Robots, Wild Rhubarb, and the New Oxford Way; Things Fall Apart: An Ending of Sorts
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226030951
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226030937
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Isolarion : A Different Oxford Journey
Language:
English
Keywords:
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