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Book Treasuring the Gaze

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-02-05
  • ISBN : 0226309711
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Treasuring the Gaze written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

Book Romantic Vision and the Novel

Download or read book Romantic Vision and the Novel written by Jay Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important contribution to the poetics of fiction Dr Jay Clayton examines the way the Romantic visionary moment alters narrative structure in the novel. This study provides the first account of the relationship between Romanticism and the English novel, giving detailed attention to the formal issues of genre and representation, as well as to the social and ethical assumptions that govern apparently formal considerations. Informed by literary, psychoanalytic and narrative theory, Romantic Vision and the Novel is written in a clear and forceful style that will help many readers come to terms with these difficult subjects. Through detailed and original interpretations of works by Richardson, Austen, Emily Bronte, Dickens, George Eliot and Lawrence, Clayton establishes the importance for what they can reveal about each other and for what their relationship reveals about the larger functional of literature in society.

Book The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich

Download or read book The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich written by Caspar David Friedrich and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.

Book Iris Murdoch s Ethics

Download or read book Iris Murdoch s Ethics written by Megan Laverty and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be of great value to philosophers, gender theorists, literary critics and others engaged with the questions of life's meaning and what a deepened understanding of it looks like.

Book The Vision of His Glory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Graham Lotz
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 1997-05-16
  • ISBN : 141851909X
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Vision of His Glory written by Anne Graham Lotz and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1997-05-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on Jesus Christ, Anne Graham Lotz brings clarity and understanding to the book of Revelation. Lotz explains God's faithfulness regardless of circumstance. All who feel depressed, deluded or discouraged can find hope in all of life's difficult situations: When life seems too small and problems seem too great; when personal insignificance outweighs God's significance; when overwhelmed by the ungodly majority; or when facing death or choosing life. Sharing her passion for God's word, Anne Graham Lotz leads the reader step by step through the apostle John's glorious, eyewitness account of God's plan for our future.

Book Intimate Relationships

    Book Details:
  • Author : Veronica Johnson
  • Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
  • Release : 2021-07-19
  • ISBN : 9781793561831
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Intimate Relationships written by Veronica Johnson and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intimate Relationships: Skills and Strategies that Lead to Success, editors Veronica Johnson, Kimberly Parrow, and Sara Polanchek bring together a collective of voices from different fields and perspectives to offer readers a comprehensive and practical guide to intimate relationships. The text considers all varieties of intimate relationships, including familial relationships, friendships, romantic relationships, and sexual relationships. Through revealing narratives and research, readers are encouraged to consider the many identities we each bring into our relationships, as well as how the practice of inclusivity and a greater understanding of differences can enhance intimacy. Dedicated chapters address the role of technology in modern relationships, interpersonal communication about sex, emotional intelligence, and managing conflict. Readers learn about the connection between friendship and mental health functioning, issues related to breakups, blended families, and dating later in life. Each chapter features contextual information, reflection questions, activities, and recommended reading to enhance the learning experience. Designed to provide readers with skills and knowledge they can apply in their everyday lives, Intimate Relationships is ideal for courses in psychology, counseling, counselor education, and others within the helping disciplines.

Book Romantic Vision  Ethical Context

Download or read book Romantic Vision Ethical Context written by Géza von Molnár and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subjective sensations of sight and sound

Download or read book Subjective sensations of sight and sound written by Sir William Richard Gowers and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Global and the Intimate

Download or read book The Global and the Intimate written by Geraldine Pratt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.

Book Romantic Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Godwin-Jones
  • Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781883479060
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Romantic Vision written by Robert Godwin-Jones and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thematic study of some forty novels by George Sand. Well-suited for the scholar and undergraduate reader. "...a solid study. ...this work has its place in an extensive collection on an author who has captured much scholarly attention over the past 20 years." --Choice.

Book Diseases of the eye

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  • Author : Sir John Herbert Parsons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Diseases of the eye written by Sir John Herbert Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vision  its optical defects and the adaptation of spectacles     With     illustrations     and selections from the test types of Jager and Snellen

Download or read book Vision its optical defects and the adaptation of spectacles With illustrations and selections from the test types of Jager and Snellen written by C. G. FENNER and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vision  Its Optical Defects

Download or read book Vision Its Optical Defects written by Christopher Smith Fenner and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Intimate Universal

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  • Author : William Desmond
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-11-29
  • ISBN : 023154300X
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book The Intimate Universal written by William Desmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

Book Love Defined

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  • Author : Kristen Clark
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1493413937
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Love Defined written by Kristen Clark and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our culture is obsessed with love and romance--so why are so few women experiencing satisfying, long-term love? In this insightful and encouraging book, sisters Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal help single women of all ages discover a radically better approach to navigating their love lives. Covering topics such as true love, romance, purposeful relationships, purity, boundaries, singleness, and glorifying God in every stage of our relationships, Love Defined unpacks God's original design for romance, showing modern women how to experience God's best for them in their relationships. Full of biblical truths and step-by-step application of concepts discussed, the book also includes a chapter-by-chapter study guide to be used individually or in small groups, as well as four letters from godly women who have been married for 30, 40, and 50+ years, offering priceless, hard-won advice to single women.

Book The Arts

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arts

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  • Author : Hamilton Easter Field
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Arts written by Hamilton Easter Field and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: