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Book Quest for Eros

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  • Author : Samuel B. Southwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780783758008
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Quest for Eros written by Samuel B. Southwell and published by . This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quest for Eros

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  • Author : Samuel B. Southwell
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-12-14
  • ISBN : 0813195020
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Quest for Eros written by Samuel B. Southwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis. The powerful influence of the memory of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, involved Browning in a deep ambivalence, and Fifine at the Fair represents his effort to escape the effects of the profound inhibitions associated with her memory, while at the same time remaining loyal to it. The poem is itself a flawed quest for Eros. Browning's symbolic vision of sexuality as the central vitalizing force in human culture—a supreme achievement of the poem—is followed by a renunciation of the quest, but the validity of the vision is explicitly affirmed and its promise recognized. In Fifine at the Fair Browning's artistic powers are splendidly in evidence. Southwell's fresh examination of the tensions within the poem offers new understanding of its power.

Book Eros

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  • Author : Teri Temple
  • Publisher : Gods and Goddesses of Ancient
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781489646415
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eros written by Teri Temple and published by Gods and Goddesses of Ancient. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the responsibilities and characteristics of Eros, the god of love, as well as providing a mythological family tree of the Greek gods.

Book Cupid   Psyche

Download or read book Cupid Psyche written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eros Ascending

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  • Author : John Maxwell Taylor
  • Publisher : North Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2011-07-05
  • ISBN : 1583944265
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Eros Ascending written by John Maxwell Taylor and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***FINALIST, USA Best Books 2010 Awards – Spirituality & Self-Help: Relationships The quest for lasting love is one of life’s essential pursuits, in some ways the most essential. But it’s also a quest that’s impossible to separate from spiritual and sexual needs. In Eros Ascending, author John Maxwell Taylor offers a wide-ranging study of sexual dysfunction in society and explains how healthy sexuality can be an entryway to universal love and higher consciousness. Based on Taylor’s twenty-three-year experience with Taoist practices, the book presents an engaging analysis of love, relationships, and sexuality from spiritual, romantic, and sexual perspectives. Taylor melds essential ideas by Jung, Gurdjieff, and Taoist Master Mantak Chia with science, biology, spiritual tradition, and current popular culture to shed new light on this eternal yet misunderstood subject. Not just for couples, the book is equally useful for single people who want to understand the methods for “learning to love yourself ” in preparation for a fulfilling, long-term relationship. Taylor draws on his eclectic background as a successful playwright, composer, actor, and musician in this persuasive plan for converting ordinary sexual energy into food for the soul.

Book Sword of Eros

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  • Author : AL Bayliss
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2018-10-26
  • ISBN : 1984502670
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Sword of Eros written by AL Bayliss and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an inspirational story told by Eros, a son of gods. In a desperate attempt to gain his father’s approval, he sets out to prove his worth. For Eros to execute such an impressive feat, he devises a unique plan to achieve his goal, and in the process, he creates the greatest supernatural gift that the gods have ever given to the world. One dark and stormy night, the first warrior goddess was created. This is the story behind the journey taken by an ordinary being who was chosen for an extra extraordinary life. Eros created a hero so powerful that even evil feared for the day that this child would grow up to realize her exceptional potential. And with this pending fear, in sheer desperation, they do the unspeakable in order to stop her from discovering this unforeseen power that for now lay dormant within her. Defying all the odds, through all her trials and tribulations, she rises to greatness in the quest to fulfill her destiny. Where the lifelong battle of good versus evil risks coming to an end. Come join Dakota’s epic journey and enjoy the adventures as she discovers her extraordinary powers and changes history along the way.

Book W h  Audens PoetryThe Quest For Love

Download or read book W h Audens PoetryThe Quest For Love written by Rakesh Desai and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.H. Auden S Poetry: The Quest For Love Is A Study Of The Major Twentieth-Century British-American Poet W.H. Auden S Mutating Quest For Love In The Shifting And Interactive Freudian, Marxist And Christian-Kierkegaardian Contexts. It Focuses On The Poems Of The Most Fertile Period (1927-47) Of Auden S Poetic Career. Certain Identifiable Images Are Symbolic Of The Quest For Love In Each Phase, Offering An Analysis Of Man In Freudian And Marxist Terms. The Ameliorative Quest For Love Fulfils Itself In The Vision Of Divine Love In The Final Christian-Kierkegaardian Phase.This Ideal And Comprehensive Book Will Attract The Lovers Of Auden And Will Benefit The Scholars, Students, Teachers And Researchers Of The 20Th Century Poetry.

Book The Araki Effect

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  • Author : Filippo Maggia
  • Publisher : Skira Editore
  • Release : 2019-10-08
  • ISBN : 9788857241951
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Araki Effect written by Filippo Maggia and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Araki's career in full, from the portraits of the early 1960s to city scenes and tender tributes to his wife Araki is known the world over for his controversial erotic portraits of Japanese women, often bound using the kinbaku (Japanese bondage) technique. A unique figure in contemporary photography, he has always found creative inspiration in his daily existence, without making any distinction between his personal life and public and professional practice. The Araki Effect offers a broad overview of his career: from the first series from 1963-65, Satchin and His Brother Mabo, to Subway of Love, a large collection of images taken in the Tokyo subway between 1963 and 1972, the year he also made Autumn in Tokyo, which recounts the autumn he spent wandering through the city in the twilight hours. These are followed by Sentimental Night in Kyoto, less known than the famous Sentimental Journey, both tributes to his wife, Yoko; Balcony of Love, Death Reality, Tokyo Diary from 2017, and one of his latest collections, Araki's Paradise from 2019. Born in Tokyo in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki worked at an advertising agency in the 1960s, where he met his future wife, Yoko Araki, the subject of his now classic volume Sentimental Journey. Araki's oeuvre spans erotic portraits of women, still lifes, images of plants, scenes of everyday life and architectural photography. He has published around 400 books, shown in many international exhibitions and his work is part of important collections worldwide. Araki lives and works in Tokyo.

Book Astronomy  The Human Quest for Understanding

Download or read book Astronomy The Human Quest for Understanding written by Dale A. Ostlie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists and non-scientists alike. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding is an introductory astronomy textbook specifically designed to relate to non-science majors across a wide variety of disciplines, nurture their curiosity, and develop vital science-based critical-thinking skills. This textbook provides an introduction to how science operates in practice and what makes it so successful in uncovering nature's secrets. Given that the study of astronomy dates back thousands of years, it is the ideal subject for tracing the development of the physical sciences and how our evolving understanding of nature has influenced, and been influenced by, mathematics, philosophy, religion, geography, politics, and more. This historical approach also illustrates how wrong turns have been taken, and how the inherent self-correcting nature of science through constant verification and the falsifiability of truly scientific theories ultimately leads us back to a more productive path in our quest for understanding. This approach also points out why, as a broadly educated citizenry, students of all disciplines must understand how scientists arrive at conclusions, and how science and technology have become central features of modern society. In discussing this fascinating and beautiful universe of which we are a part, it is necessary to illustrate the fundamental role that mathematics plays in decoding nature's mysteries. Unlike other similar textbooks, some basic mathematics is integrated naturally into the text, together with interpretive language, and supplemented with numerous examples; additional tutorials are provided on the book's companion website. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding leads the reader down the path to our present-day understanding of our Solar System, stars, galaxies, and the beginning and evolution of our universe, along with profound questions still to be answered in this ancient, yet rapidly changing field.

Book Eros Plays

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  • Author : Jerry Caris Godard
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780819179654
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Eros Plays written by Jerry Caris Godard and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros plays the unruly bastard in Freud's late metapsychology and the lead essay in this collection. The author establishes his motif by describing the uncanny coming of Eros and its unwelcome persistence in the writings of Sigmund Freud with particular attention to his two major books-The Interpretation of Dreams and Civilization and its Discontents. Offering a continuing invocation to Eros, these essays use literary allusions to encourage disorderly ways of thinking about psychology while teasing the related human needs for security, certainty, and control. The author, a psychologist, makes 'patriarchy' his 'straight man, ' and in doing so, often finds 'self-mockery' to be the play. Contents: Eros Plays; A One Page Explanatory Summary of 'Eros Plays'; Testing the Taste of Spit: A Novel Introduction to Psychology; How Firm a Foundation; PsychoBabel-Man's Quest Goes on...Until it Ends; Androgony

Book Eros and Illness

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  • Author : David B. Morris
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-27
  • ISBN : 0674659716
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Eros and Illness written by David B. Morris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. He shows how desire—emotions, dreams, stories, romance, even eroticism—plays a crucial part in illness.

Book The Moral Quest

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  • Author : Stanley J. Grenz
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2000-11-06
  • ISBN : 9780830815685
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Moral Quest written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley J. Grenz masterfully leads readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry that is a first-rate introduction to Christian ethics.

Book Socrates in Love

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  • Author : Christopher Phillips
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780393060171
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Socrates in Love written by Christopher Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completing a trilogy of Socratic exploration, Phillips goes to the heart of Socratic discourse to discover the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. Throughout, he enriches his dialogues with commentary from the great philosophers of love from Rumi to Ayn Rand and Anais Nin.

Book God  Desire  and a Theology of Human Sexuality

Download or read book God Desire and a Theology of Human Sexuality written by David H. Jensen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work of constructive theology examines human sexuality in light of Christian faith and doctrine. Jensen moves beyond the hot-button social debates about sexual orientation and sexual practices to look for healing. The seven chapters consider Scripture and sex; the connections between the triune, covenantal God and human sexuality; Christ's incarnation and resurrection as affirming the beauty of flesh; eschatology and sexual identity; the ramifications of the Lord's Supper for human sexuality; vocation and Christian callings to marriage, celibacy, and singleness; and sexual ethics.

Book A Quest for Remembrance

Download or read book A Quest for Remembrance written by Madeleine Scherer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in antiquity and in the reception of classical literature in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. In the process, the volume explores how the hero’s quest into the underworld engages with the theme of recovering memories from the past. At the same time, we aim to foreground how the narrative format itself is concerned with forms of commemoration ranging from trans-cultural memory, remembering the literary and intellectual canon, to commemorating important historical events that might otherwise be forgotten. Through highlighting this duality this collection aims to introduce the descent narrative as its own literary genre, a ‘memorious genre’ related to but distinct from the quest narrative.

Book Choosing Eros

Download or read book Choosing Eros written by Julie Hagerty and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic, had no inkling that the mysterious yet undeniable bond formed in a fleeting encounter with a priest would later transform her life. This memoir, in part told through actual letters, is the inspiring story of how two souls, grounded in faith and destined to be together, escape violence to move confidently from darkness to light and from fear to love.

Book The Quest for the Historical Satan

Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Satan written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the figure of Satan has incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured largely in Christian practices, devotions, popular notions of the afterlife, and fears of retribution in the beyond. Satan remains an influential reality today in many Christian traditions and in popular culture. But how should Satan be understood today? "The Quest for the Historical Satan excavates cultural, historical, religious, and morally constructed productions of evil within Christianity, from myth and legend to the complex ways people conjure the embodiment of evil and harm. De La Torre and Hernßndez are engaging sleuths as they carefully examine Satan's conception and his presence in modernity and through the ages. The wrestle with the spiritual notions of Good and Evil and justice and injustice.-Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Professor of Theology and Women's Studies Shaw University Divinity School