Download or read book Eros in the Mind s Eye written by Donald Palumbo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-07-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty.
Download or read book The Mind s Eye written by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Poetics of the Mind s Eye written by Christopher Collins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this study consists of Collins's application of six "cognitive modes" of reading: perception, retrospection, assertion, introspection, expectation, and judgment. In addition, Collins considers the impact of the movement from oral to print-literate culture.
Download or read book Psyche and Eros written by Gisela Labouvie-Vief and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1994 book asserts that the experience of development differs along gender lines.
Download or read book Journey Into the Mind s Eye written by Lesley Blanch and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler—swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Fabergé eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia—came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.
Download or read book Narratology and Interpretation written by Jonas Grethlein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to elucidate the co.
Download or read book The Consuming Body written by Pasi Falk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-09-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. The author explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation i
Download or read book The Eros Aspect of the Eye written by A. R. Pope and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Rocky Horror written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.
Download or read book A Smile in His Mind s Eye written by Ray Morrison and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics. Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect.
Download or read book Setting Plato Straight written by Todd W. Reeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations.
Download or read book William Blake and the Daughters of Albion written by H. Bruder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.
Download or read book The Mind and Heart of Love Lion and Unicorn written by Martin Cyril D'Arcy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores how human passion (Eros) and divine love (agape) may coexist within man's experience.
Download or read book Convergences written by Dr. Nabil M. Abdel-Al and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is an amalgam of the authors output in the domains of interpretation, translation, and literary scholarship. It is a serious attempt to highlight the cardinal traits common to said fields. This research is a vested trek into the inner workings of the authors profession; interpretation and translation, as well as his standing engagement with literary genres throughout the ages. The books uniqueness resides in treating a diversity of matters interrelated in various ways, although on the surface it appears to make up a queer admixture of dissimilar elementshence the title, Convergences. Interpretation and translation are twin vocations, and between them, convergence is all encompassing. Both transform a message from a source to a target language. Complementary and mutually supportive as they are, yet there is a train of difference in the execution of these two inseparable professions: the method, nature and techniques involved in each. Interpretation is the instantaneous, the simultaneous, in a word the express mode of communication; and translation is the meditative, the slow or the local medium of correspondence. Concomitantly, literature is the crucible for teleologically permeable convergences and incredible divergences. It has a noble ontological message and brings out humanitys hidden treasures, experiences, thoughts, and choices. Literatures lofty missive is grounded in understanding the scenes, events, and characters it depicts excerpts of which feed into discourses to be interpreted and translated. Clients come up with multiple interpretations depending on circumstances and the context in which texts are couched.
Download or read book Chaos written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Universe is coming, and it will consume everything in its wake. It's been over 10,000 years since the Apocalypse. Katrina has ascended beyond just being a Devil into one of the most powerful gods in the Universe. However, all is not well in the cosmos. The Godschurch is in shambles after the events of Doom, hemorrhaging money and support among the pantheons. Katrina, Julia, Akta, and Rebecca spend their days fighting for backing among the deities but are making mercilessly little headway with them. In the eyes of the immortals, the Godschurch is a joke. However, when the gods start dying at an incredible rate, the church might be the only hope for the galaxy…whether the divines like it or not. Join Katrina, Akta, Julia, Kimberly, and Rebecca in the most explosive entry into The Godsverse Chronicles yet, as they work to stop the Primordials from unraveling the very fabric of existence…with the fate of the Universe hanging in the balance. If you love mythology, magic, fast-paced action, and non-stop adventure, pick up Chaos today.
Download or read book Extrapolation written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirteenth Time Zone written by David Jebb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crime ridden San Diego neighborhood a lone police officer holds the line between good and evil. For two years Officer Owen "Blue" Drew is secretly detailed to a one man, covert operation to disrupt drug activities and arrest the most vicious and notorious gang members in a forsaken sector. In the process a contract is put out on his life by the drug lords and he eventually sacrifices everything to his personal war on crime. In the frenzy of battle and violence Blue realizes he is on the brink of madness. His world begins to implode on him. Consumed by the violence, he leaves the Department to search for something lost within himself. His journey takes him through over thirty countries, three continents and thirteen time zones. This epic two and a half year passage ends in a small Swiss mountain village and to a sacred place within himself. A place where many people, cultures and religions lent a helping hand, to a place of tranquil peace, where the doorway to the heart is opened forever.
