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Book The Body in Language  An Anthology

Download or read book The Body in Language An Anthology written by Contributors and published by Counterpath. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the body’s place in language has enduring significance. Is there a more equivalent imprint on the language of our life than our own bodies? The Body In Language: An Anthology collects an extraordinary range of voices—including writers, artists, performers, and healing practitioners—to present new perspectives on the body in art by exploring the body in language. The selves/cells we release in creativity embody our fundamental being. Can we activate our connective senses to better understand how others make others?

Book The American Body in Context

Download or read book The American Body in Context written by Jessica R. Johnston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn Monroe to the Spice Girls, from Grover Cleveland to President Clinton, to one's naked form reflected in the mirror each morning, Americans are taught to read bodies as symbols displaying and revealing hidden truths about the individual and his or her behaviours. Any discussion of the body becomes complex and muddled as one tries to analyze how and why certain body types are attributed certain meanings.

Book Body Language

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neeta Jain
  • Publisher : Boa Anthology
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Body Language written by Neeta Jain and published by Boa Anthology. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt and revealing anthology of poems by physicians. Perfect gift for physicians, students, and patients.

Book Imagining Language

Download or read book Imagining Language written by Jed Rasula and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Stein's Tender Buttons were first introduced, they went so far beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were widely considered "unreadable," if not scandalous. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery take these and other examples of twentieth-century avant-garde writing as the starting point for a collection of writings that demonstrates a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. The anthology, which spans three millennia, generally bypasses chronology in order to illuminate unexpected congruities between seemingly discordant materials. Together, the writings celebrate the scope and prodigality of linguistic speculation in the West going back to the pre-Socratics.

Book The Body and the Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Spicher Kasdorf
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0271035447
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Body and the Book written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.

Book Body  Breath  and Consciousness

Download or read book Body Breath and Consciousness written by Ian Macnaughton and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces that develop the self—somatic, emotional, mental, interpersonal, social, and spiritual—must all be considered by therapists in treating any patient. Each article in this important anthology deals in some way with these various elements. The writing is focused on the body-mind connection, exploring the practices and theories of this popular branch of psychology. Topics include the significance of family systems; dealing with trauma and shock in therapy; and the importance of breathing, offering valuable insights for the student and practitioner alike. Contributors include Marianne Bentzen, a trainer in Somatic Developmental Psychology; Peter Bernhardt, a professor of psychology; and Peter A. Levine, author of Waking the Tiger.

Book Bodies Built for Game

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natalie Diaz
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2019-10
  • ISBN : 1496219120
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Bodies Built for Game written by Natalie Diaz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unified as one energy. Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada Limón, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games.

Book Exploring Body Mind Centering

Download or read book Exploring Body Mind Centering written by Gil Wright Miller and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Body-Mind Centering features 35 essays on Body-Mind Centering (BMC), an experiential practice based on the application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles. Using the work of BMC founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen as a springboard, the book showcases diverse situations—from medical illness to blocked creativity—in which this discipline is applied with transformative results. Exploring Body-Mind Centering is divided into three sections, preceded by an introduction framing BMC as a pathway to becoming aware of relationships that exist throughout the body and mind and using that awareness to act. The first section lays the groundwork for this process, with real-life experiences and exercises that encourage readers to interact with the text. Section two contains valuable case stories describing the experiences of BMC students and practitioners as they work with clients. Section three shows how BMC can be integrated with other disciplines and practices that include the arts, medicine, and yoga. The book concludes with a biography of Cohen, a profile of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and a history of BMC.

Book A Book of Luminous Things

Download or read book A Book of Luminous Things written by Czesław Miłosz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.

Book A Body of Work  An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine

Download or read book A Body of Work An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine written by Corinna Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Body of Work includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry and excerpts of important historical and contextual medical writing. The sections are: • Body as machine • Nerves, mind, and brain • Consuming • Illness, disease, and disability • Hospitals, practitioners, and professionals • Treatment • Sex, evolution, and reproduction • Ageing and dying A Body of Work is supported by a companion website offering further contextual essays, class discussion questions and visual material. Includes work by such poets as: Dannie Abse, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, John Burnside, Raymond Carver, Lucille Clifton, S. T. Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Mark Doty, T.S. Eliot, Paul Farley, Ann Finch, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ted Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Paul Muldoon, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Jo Shapcott, John Addington Symonds, Michael Symmons Roberts, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams.

Book Oh  Body  the Things You Do

Download or read book Oh Body the Things You Do written by Margaret L. Priddy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, Body! The Things You Do merges the concepts of dating and body language. Instead of them separating like oil and water, dating and body language make a homogenous blend that act as a tool to give you an upper hand in quickly deciphering your dates mood. His lips may say one thing, and his body another. Which do you trust? His body language, of course. Its unconscious; it doesnt lie. Oh Body! The Things You Do is an innovative, informative, witty, and easy-to-read, dating tool. Within minutes of reading this book, you can begin to interpret your dates body language.

Book Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English

Download or read book Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English written by Robert Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction from the old British Commonwealth once took second place to the literature of England and the United States, but his is no longer the case. Writers from around the globe-Africa, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean-have recorded their encounters with colonialism from its beginnings to its collapse and aftermath to produce an impressive body of work that internationalizes literature in English. Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English draws from this great common wealth of writing of offer 35 selections by major writers from both indigenous and settler cultures, from the nineteenth century through the contemporary era. The anthology is organized into sets of short stories and stand-alone selections from significant novels; colonial, postcolonial, immigrant, and personal encounters are represented. Each section includes a general introduction to help readers place the works in historical and cultural perspective. Biographical and critical material is provided for each writer, along with commentary on each selection. This anthology is an appropriate textbook for courses in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and in Literature and Cultural Studies. It will also interest general readers.

Book Body Language

Download or read book Body Language written by John B. Lee and published by Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of both established and emerging writers with poems and stories arising from insights about the human body.

Book Word of Mouth

Download or read book Word of Mouth written by Timothy Liu and published by Talisman House Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in order of the poets' birthdates, so that the book shades gradually from older luminaries of the poetry scene to bright newcomers, an anthology covers a vast range of work by twentieth-century gay American male poets.

Book The Cyborg Anthology

Download or read book The Cyborg Anthology written by Lindsay B-E and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems written by Cyborgs in the future - this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetry, political, celebrity, and pop culture poets, and ends with the next generation of Cyborg poets. The narrative takes place in the time after a cataclysmic event, and the collection wrestles with this loss. Through the lives of the poets, the book chronicles the history of personhood for technological beings, their struggle for liberation, and demonstrates different ways a person can be Cyborg. The poems and biographies together tell the story of a complex and enthralling world-to-come, exploring topics that are important in the future, and also urgent right now. With mordant wit and a playful satiric touch, these Cyborg poems showcase a dazzling range of poetic forms and ideas: imaginative and charmingly subversive. Move over Norton Anthology of Poetry, there's a new force in town, and they are a delight. --Renée Sarojini Saklikar, author of Listening to the Bees and Children of Air India The premise of this collection alone is fabulous. The poems are potent and powerful. With echoes of Le Guin, Brunner and Monáe, Lindsay B-e's debut is layered and smart, provocative, and deeply satisfying. I was moved and fascinated. Speculative poetry at its best. --Hiromi Goto, author of Chorus of Mushrooms and Darkest Light

Book Literary Theory

Download or read book Literary Theory written by Julie Rivkin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant. Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms

Book Asexuality and Sexual Normativity

Download or read book Asexuality and Sexual Normativity written by Mark Carrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'. This unique volume collects a diverse range of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical work which addresses this emergence, raising important and timely questions about asexuality and its broader implications for sexual culture. One of the most pressing and contentious issues within academic and public debates about asexuality is what relationship, if any, it has to sexual dysfunction. As well as collecting cutting edge scholarship in the emerging field of asexuality studies, rendering it indispensable to any sexualities course across the range of disciplines, this anthology also addresses this urgent debate, offering a variety of perspectives on how and why some have pathologised asexuality. This includes a range of chapters addressing the broader issues of sexual normativity within which these contemporary debates about asexuality are taking place. This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychology and Sexuality.