Download or read book Maud and Other Poems written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medusa s Coil written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novelette by the author of "The Curse of Yig."
Download or read book Mesmerism Medusa and the Muse written by Anne DeLong and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the poetry of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) and the prose of Mary Shelley reveals that these Romantic-era writers equate the enraptured state that produces spontaneous literary creation with the mesmeric trance. These writers employ Medusan imagery to portray both the mesmerist and the mesmerized subject, a conflation of subject/object positions that complicates issues of agency, subjectivity, and gender. Images of Medusan mesmerism ultimately work to deconstruct Romantic ideological dichotomies of self/other, female/male, muse/artist, and sublime/beautiful. In contrast to a traditional, masculinized Romantic discourse that emphasizes self-possession, this study uncovers a feminized, improvisational, Romantic discourse, characterized “Other-possession,” an assumption of the mesmerized subject position that enhances subjective fluidity. This study interrogates the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity through an examination of Romantic poetry, prose, and theory that utilizes mesmeric and Medusan metaphors to suggest creative inspiration.Building on recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a feminist icon, this work suggests that the mesmeric Medusan muse not only enables creativity for women writers but also provides a mirror in which they view (and through which they give voice to) their own societal oppression. The mesmeric Medusan muse in Romantic-era literature—from the Ancient Mariner and the Frankenstein monster to the tragic, abandoned Sapphic poetess—often represents the face of oppression, an unwelcome and monstrous truth in nineteenth-century British society. For women writers in particular, braving the stare of the Medusan muse enhances empathy, and therefore inspiration and literary productivity.
Download or read book Literature and Fascination written by Sibylle Baumbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.
Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry written by Dunstan Lowe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies
Download or read book The H D Book written by Robert Duncan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan’s wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work—at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan’s quest toward a new poetics—is at last complete and available to a wide audience.
Download or read book The Comedies Histories Tragedies and Poems of William Shakspere Essay on the three parts of King Henry VI and King Richard III King Henry VIII Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Love Hate Deceit and Foul Play in the Afternoon written by D. M. Schuetteé and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.M. Schuettee’ has taken us down the run way of a fashion show, from his play “Positively Entertaining” Where the clothing designer is color blind, and the models are everything from dieting, hot flashes to obsessive compulsive disorders. Now he takes us inside the home of Lillian Bovell, a retired talk show host whose life revolves around her live -in assistants, and her forty five-year-old needy sister Audrey that has to have her cat cheeto neutered. If that isn’t enough, she gets a surprise visit from her two sons in the middle of the night, upsetting the household to chaotic stress. While the next door neighbor Nina a newspaper reporter spying in on their every move to get all the juicy details of a top story. As the plot thickens, Lillian has a secret that soon all will be revealed which brings “Love, Hate, Deceit and Foul Play in the Afternoon”.
Download or read book Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Willa Cather Stories Poems Other Writings LOA 57 written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, poems, and other writings by Willa Cather.
Download or read book DECEIT A Viking Saga for Children Ages 7 and Up written by C.S. Woolley and published by Mightier Than the Sword UK Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What hope is there when all have been deceived? The dreamworld has been prepared by the elves, and the children of the heroes of the Danelands must travel to face unknown dangers. They have no weapons or powers, only their minds and magical amulets around their necks to protect themselves from the dark power of the Bergkonge. But are the amulets enough to protect the children from their enemy? The elves watch over the children as they sleep, but they are powerless to see or stop what happens in the dreamworld. The children must take on the challenges of the dreamworld to open the path to the Bergkonge’s lair in the real world, and all their parents can do is wait, and hope, in the penultimate book in the Bergkonge story arc in The Children of Ribe series. =+=+= The Children of Ribe is a Viking Saga for children bringing the culture and mythology of the Danish Vikings to life. The book series has been influenced by Enid Blyton, Arthur Ransome, Susan Cooper, J R R Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Based in Denmark during the time of the Vikings, these books are tales of magic and danger that are suitable for children from the ages of seven and up to read on their own but also perfect for people to read to children from the age of 4. The Children of Ribe is a modern fairy tale that brings elements of Danish folklore and mythology to life mixed with elements of Viking culture. These books have been designed to help children with dyslexia to read. You can watch author C.S. Woolley talking about dyslexia and reading from FATE, book 1 in the Children of Ribe series here: https://youtu.be/EcnKLKa5c98 Whether you are interested in Vikings, studying them at school, or are simply shopping for the perfect gift for your favourite bookworm, the Children of Ribe series is just what you are looking for. =+=+= The Children of Ribe books have all been formatted to help encourage dyslexic children and reluctant readers to engage with books. The type space and font sizing are larger than in most books and the font has been chosen as it is much easier to read.
Download or read book When the Soul Remembers Itself written by Thomas Singer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the ancient Greek poets, playwrights, philosophers and mythologies have anything to say to modern human beings? Is their time finished, or do their insights have as much relevance to the human condition as they did 2,500 years ago? When the Soul Remembers Itself continues the exploration of the connections between ancient and modern psyche with a resounding affirmation of its ongoing relevance. Uniquely combining poetry, drama and storytelling in a pioneering collection, an international selection of contributors each explore a character, myth or theme from ancient Greece in the context of its relevance to the modern psyche. Each author enters an imaginative dialogue that pieces and bridges together fragments of the past with the present, exploring themes such as initiation, war, love, paranoia, tragedy and the soul’s journey through the vicissitudes of life on earth, through characters such as Ajax, Persephone, Orpheus, Electra, the Apostle Paul, Perpetua and Jocasta. Understanding myth is crucial in Jungian analysis, and by connecting the modern person with the age-old questions of life and death, the contributors bring truly archetypal narratives to life and speak to the human condition throughout the ages. When the Soul Remembers Itself will be of great interest to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, classics, ancient religion, archetypal studies and mythology. As the contributors’ conclusions apply to both contemporary theory and clinical practice, it will also appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in practice and training.
Download or read book Paradise Lost A Poem in Twelve Books The Author John Milton Volume the First the Second written by and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century Philip Sidney Thomas More Walter Ralegh Edmund Spenser Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare written by Sidney Lee and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas More, Philip Sidney, Walter Ralegh, Edmund Spencer, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare were chosen to represent the atmosphere of the whole sixteenth century in England. Each of these men influenced the following generation and this opus describes accuratly an epoche of intellectual uprising which accompanied the ascendency of the British Empire. Based on his great knowledge of the epoche Sidney Lee, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and several English classics, gives a profound view of six great men of the English Renaissance and their impact on British history.
Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Reingard M. Nischik and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the most fascinating, versatile, and productive authors of our time, a superb writer in any genre she chooses to tackle. This book was prepared on the occasion of Atwood's sixtieth birthday in November 1999. Its first aim is therefore to take stock of Atwood's multifarious works and international impact at the height of her creative powers. Secondly, the book serves as a wide-ranging introduction to the writer and her works. Fifteen informative articles written specifically for this volume by Atwood specialists from Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, and France treat her life and status, her works (up-to-date survey articles on Atwood's novels, short fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism), and important approaches to her works (from the standpoints of gender politics, mythology, ecology, popular culture, constructivism, and Canadian nationalism). A final section on creativity, transmission, and reception includes an interview with Atwood on creativity, statements by some of Atwood's important transmitters, including publishers, editors, literary agents, and translators, and some 15 statements by Atwood's fellow writers, in which they explore her importance for them. A number of photographs of Atwood, several cartoons drawn by her, an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Atwood, and an index round out the volume. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.