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Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literary tradition, even legitimizing the academic study of novels. However, the Janeite phenomenon has not until now aroused the curiosity of scholars interested in the politics of culture. Rather than lament the fact that Austen today shares the headlines with her readers, the contributors to this collection inquire into why this is the case, ask what Janeites do, and explore the myriad appropriations of Austen--adaptations, reviews, rewritings, and appreciations--that have been produced since her lifetime.

The articles move from the nineteenth-century lending library to the modern cineplex and discuss how novelists as diverse as Cooper, Woolf, James, and Kipling have claimed or repudiated their Austenian inheritance. As case studies in reception history, they pose new questions of long-loved novels--as well as new questions about Austen's relation to Englishness, about the boundaries between elite and popular cultures and amateur and professional readerships, and about the cultural work performed by the realist novel and the marriage plot.

The contributors are Barbara M. Benedict, Mary A. Favret, Susan Fraiman, William Galperin, Claudia L. Johnson, Deidre Lynch, Mary Ann O'Farrell, Roger Sales, Katie Trumpener, and Clara Tuite.

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Dada [Sudhir Mukerjee] is recognized as one of the devotees who has been closest to Maharajji Their relationship has been so intimate for so long that we treasure Dada's stories about his "Baba" as especially precious. He is our elder brother in Maharajji's spiritual family. -from the introduction by Ram Dass.
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This book is a compilation of various articles written by the devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi published in the Ashram Magazines,The Mountain Path and The Call Divine.

The greatness of Sri Ramana Maharshi has attracted many,many devotees from all over the world.The picture of the Ashram and of the great sage were permanently imprinted on their minds.Even a Photo of the Maharshi could root them to the spot and the mind would suddenly go blank.Such was and such is and such ever will be the Maharshi's influence upon those who approach with piety and devotion.

In the book the devotees speak of the Maharshi in awed tones and with overwhelming sensitivity and love.The reader is invited to participate in this spiritual feast..
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Ramana’s Arunachala Ocean of the Grace Divine. A work of this kind is not a record of facts and details What this book records are the experiences of devotees,sages and saints who have left Arunachala in the hill,Arunachala in the temple and Arunachala in Ramana.They live and breathe Arunachala as a mother would of her child or a lover of his beloved,not in measured terms,but in awed tones and with overwhelmed sensitivity.The reader is invited to join as a spectator of this love affair. The joy and delight the writers feel,the choking emotions they try to express here are sure to capture the heart of the reader making him long for these experiences. The divine is beyond thought.Yet He allows himself to be reflected in a sigh,a tear,a gasp,a look of wonder.This is what this book is.Long after the words are forgotten,the details erased from memory,one can feel inwardly the sigh,the tear,the gasp,the look of wonder and say,”This is Arunachala,this is Ramana.”.
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This a collection of writings on a variety of topics by the renowned and prolific writer Swami Kriyananda Essays range from a description of the New Age to insights on September 11. Swami Kriyananda's view of life is thought-provoking and points the reader toward greater awareness, self-honesty, and hope. The fascinating essays touch on a wealth of subjects-spiritual, political, social, and personal-including Henry I, how to understand people, the importance of truthfulness, and much more..
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In this magnificent essay, Adi Da Samraj, calls us to recognize what is of supreme and eternal value and to devote our very existence to that. Simultaneously, Adi Da calls us to relinquish our 'grip' on everything that is only of passing significance so that we do not waste our lives caught up in pursuits that are ultimately meaningless.
As Adi Da Samraj has confessed on many occasions, his birth necessarily and inevitably coincided with the 'darkest' of times on earth. The times are now so 'dark' that the reigning paradigm is an aggressive materialism.
Adi Da Samraj is here to restore true esotericism to its rightful place of primacy in the human world to rescue true esotericism from the aggressive attacks of both scientific materialism and conventional exoteric religion, and to grant human beings the revelation of Divine esotericism. Adi Da's teaching is by no means merely a matter of talk, ideas, or philosophy. To actually enter into the Divinely Esoteric way he reveals is a matter of devoting one s life to the practice of his Way. And the fullness of that devotion necessarily manifests, in due course, as the life of renunciation.
A life of true and free renunciation in which one renounces egoic 'self'-identification with body, mind, self, and world by Grace, and from the beginning is a unique opportunity, a unique Blessing and the most profound endeavor a human being can possibly undertake..
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