Diet and yin & yang influences in literature – Planetary Health

Energetic Patterns in Literature by Jan Jicha

Danka — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:25:40 +0000

In Energetic Patterns of Literature, Jan Jícha introduces a new spiralic paradigm to describe the unfolding of literature from ancient to modern times. From classics such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tolstoy’s War and Peace to modernist novels and plays such as Kafka’s The Trial and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, he analyzes the complementary opposite structure of their characterization, themes, and symbolism.

Jan’s unique interpretation illuminates the world’s most sublime literature in a profound new way.

“A readable, yet detailed publication, Energetic Patterns of Literature, is not only a unique author's view of literature, intelligence, and society through the principles of yin and yang but also aspires to serve as an alternative literary guide for interested people regardless of age for decades.” —Jan Šulc, redactor and editor

“A thought-provoking, briskly and wittily written book. There are thoughts that our contemporary society needs to hear.“ —Monika Kittová, translator and redactor

Jan Jícha (born in 1980 in Prague) is a longtime high school teacher of the Czech language and literature, translator, songwriter, singer and a successful author with a sense of humor who is devoted to a holistic approach to life.

The book Energetic Patterns in Literature is a synthesis of his long experience of teaching literature at high school and studying the energetics of diet and medicine according to the Eastern model.

Hamlet by Christopher Marlowe (edited by Alex Jack) – 2 volumes

Danka — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:03:02 +0000

Like Hamlet’s Ghost, a specter haunts the literary and theatrical worlds, intimating that Shakespeare is not the sole or principal author of the works bearing his name. New historical, scientific, and literary evidence suggests that Christopher “Kit” Marlowe—London’s leading playwright and a secret government agent—staged his death in 1593 to avoid religious persecution. Choosing to be rather than not to be, Marlowe appears to have gone undercover and composed Hamlet and other works and they appeared under the name of actor Will Shakespeare. “I’m enjoying Alex Jack’s new book on Marlowe and Shakespeare very much. It makes me realize how mysterious and complicated that world was, how unbelievably brilliant in language. And I’ve taken a much greater fondness for Marlowe than ever before.”—Robert Bly, poet and author “Alex Jack’s new book is enormously impressive as a detective work in literature. His analysis of Hamlet is remarkable . . . breathtaking.”—Howard Zinn, Historian and author of A People History of the United States This new 2-volume edition of Hamlet includes the text of the play and a comprehensive presentation of the evidence for Marlowe’s role in the authorship. Vol 1., 120 pages. Vol. 2, 480 pages. Foreign orders, please add $50/airmail postage.

As You Like It by Christopher Marlowe (edited by Alex Jack)

Danka — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 23:58:45 +0000

As You Like It is one of the most delightful romantic comedies of all time. The plucky heroine Rosalind’s spirited wit, her suitor Orlando’s moonstruck courting, the fool Touchstone’s jaded humor, the melancholy sage Jaques’s world-weary cynicism, and the shepherdess Phoebe’s proud disdain have enthralled generations of viewers and readers. But beneath the comic tour de force of the irrepressible, cross-dressing heroine and the antics of the other “country copulatives” lies a penetrating critique of Elizabethan England and the key to the greatest literary mystery of all time. In As You Like It, Marlowe is celebrated as the “Dead Shepherd,” but as this edition shows, he is the actual writer of the play and still remarkably alive. 516 pages Foreign orders, please add $50/airmail postage