Download or read book Consuming Passions written by Sian Griffiths and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What people ate used to be considered marginal and insignificant. CONSUMING PASSIONS shows how that picture is changing. This collection of essays reveals that historians, sociologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, along with ordinary people, are seriously studying the relationship between what we eat and how we live, behave, and think. 20 illustrations.

Download or read book Passions Wild And Free written by Janelle Taylor and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the wind. . .Kiss the night wind. . .Promise me forever. . . Janelle Taylor's sweeping historicals are passionate tales filled with thrilling adventure and breathtaking desire. And Passions Wild and Free carries on her bestselling tradition with this fiery story of a beautiful woman in search of revenge and the hot-blooded gunslinger who captures her heart. . . Passions Wild and Free After seeing her home and family destroyed by the cruel and hateful Epson gang, Randee Hollis swore revenge. The feisty young woman knew that she couldn't do the nasty job alone--she needed someone to help her stop the murderous villains. And when Randee literally ran into the black-clad Marsh Logan, she knew she'd found her man. He was strong and brave and met all of her requirements for a gunslinger. . .but the virile stranger offered something more. Every time Randee looked into his light blue eyes she felt a longing deep inside. She wanted to run her fingers through his sleek ebony hair, caress his bronzed skin and discover what it would be like to spend the rest of her life wrapped up in his warm embrace. . .

Download or read book Public Passions written by Eugenia Lean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This riveting work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause célèbre, Eugenia Lean shows how Shi Jianqiao planned not only to avenge the death of her father, but also to attract media attention and galvanize public support. Lean traces the rise of a new sentiment—"public sympathy"—in early twentieth-century China, a sentiment that ultimately served to exonerate the assassin. The book sheds new light on the political significance of emotions, the powerful influence of sensational media, modern law in China, and the gendered nature of modernity.

Download or read book Passions written by Barney Leason and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passions is a humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue, and the demands of the big egos involved.

Download or read book The Vehement Passions written by Philip Fisher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.

Download or read book The Poetry of the Passions written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

Download or read book Orthodox Passions written by Maram Epstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when Manchu regulations made chastity the primary metaphor for obedience and social duty, filial discourse increasingly embraced the dramatic and passionate excesses associated with late-Ming chastity narratives. Qing texts, especially those from the Jiangnan region, celebrate modes of filial piety that conflicted with the interests of the patriarchal family and the state. Analyzing filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts, including local gazetteers, autobiographical and biographical nianpu records, and fiction, Epstein shows the diversity of acts constituting exemplary filial piety. This context, Orthodox Passions argues, enables a radical rereading of the great novel of manners The Story of the Stone (ca. 1760), whose absence of filial affections and themes make it an outlier in the eighteenth-century sentimental landscape. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.

Download or read book Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions written by Thomas DiPiero and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flourished along with the rise of the bourgeoisie; and that the novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were inevitable stepping stones on the road to the apotheosis of realism realized in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. Instead, the author argues that the early French novel articulated the French aristocracy's claims to natural ascendancy against an encroaching middle class. But like any other literary form, the novel produces and is a product of ideology, and it reveals the contradictions lying beneath the surface of an apparently seamless social structure. After the death of Louis XIV and the resulting social and political redefinition of the aristocracy, the ideological rifts in the novel's form enabled it to shift its class affiliations with the changing times. French cultural life was increasingly tinged with values determined by new configurations in the control and transmission of property, including new constraints on women's sexual behavior. Fiction that claimed for itself a rightful place in the real world began to appear. As it had during the seventeenth century, fiction continued to negotiate complex social contradictions and label as malevolent any person or group that seemed to threaten social order, notably the immoderate woman who flouted traditional conceptions of virtue and threatened to read the social fabric. This new account of the rise of the French novel is enriched throughout by close readings of both well-known and obscure novels, including d'Urfe;'s L'Astre;e, Gomberville's Polexandre, Furetière's Le Roman bourgeois, Pre;vost's Manon Lescaut, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Sade's Justine.

Download or read book 10 Passions of a Man s Soul written by Mark Elfstrand and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morning show host of Moody Radio Network's flagship station in Chicago, Mark Elfstrand uses interviews with ten dynamic, powerfully gifted leaders to explore the driving passions that motivate authentic men of God. Exploring topics such as power, adventure, purpose, pleasure, and wealth, this transparent disclosure of men's innermost feelings brings up thought-provoking questions and surprising revelations about contemporary leaders and historical figures. Readers will discover the hidden leader waiting to emerge from within themselves.

Download or read book The Passions of Vincent van Gogh written by B. Ione Mutchler Ph. D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Pictures Passions and Eye written by Michel Strauss and published by Halban. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the collectors, the dealers, the colleagues and even the forgers, as well as the clients who shared his passion. There were times of boom and times of recession, there were very difficult times -in particular the anti-trust era -and there were times that brought great delight and a sense of achievement, in particular the British Rail Pension Fund sale which Michel had helped set up and which exceeded all expectations. An authoritative and highly respected figure in the art world, Michel Strauss has handled the greatest of all Impressionist works, some of which it was thought had been lost forever.

Download or read book The Se7en Passions of Gabrielle milie written by Joaquin Rafael Roces and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle ilie is a young princess-bride on the eve of her fairy tale wedding. This should be by all accounts her Happily ever after ending: a royal wedding with her Prince Charming; but she is hunted with uncertainty and doubt. Although her mother tries to assure the young princess, she decides impulsively to flee the safe confines of her castle to follow a mysterious voice that leads her to the dark woods on the frontiers of her kingdom. She is seduced by the rogue highwayman, and the two embark on a worldwide journey that takes them across continents and oceans to the rim of the world. She begins her journey as a young sheltered and cloistered princess armed with only her knowledge and education, both of which are benefits of her privileged status. She acts on impulse and gives very little thought to the consequences that spring from her decisions. But the veil of Gabrielle iles youthful romance with her highwayman starts to fade as she examines the true nature of her relationships, religion, sexuality and identity. She traverses the Silk Road; forges primordial forests and battles both men and fantastic beasts; she scales the Himalayas and explores the Amazon; and along the way she discovers the true meaning of love and faith. Each book chronicles her spiritual and physical journey as she travels to exotic and distant lands, and learns about love, faith and loyalty and the true fragile nature of her own humanity.

Download or read book Revolutionaries Rebels and Robbers written by Pascale Baker and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original perspective on bandidas in Latin American bandit studies: will inform and generate discussion and debate Analysis of banditry in South America following the Robin Hood model. This subject is enduringly popular, with Hobsbawm’s theories always up for new readings by both academics and the general public A new look at infamous bandit Pancho Villa and the novel The Underdogs. For those who know the novel this will provide a controversial new perspective, for those that do not, an insight into the work, the Mexican Revolution and its bandits such as Villa. The translations will help make this book accessible to both Spanish and non-Spanish speakers.

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