Download or read book Monster Beauty written by Joanna Frueh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy, Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a grotesquely captivating creature: Monster/Beauty. By illuminating her journey with thoughtful insight and engaging prose, she encourages readers to join her in her quest to articulate fresh ways of thinking about the aesthetic and the erotic and of theorizing the flux of lived experience." —John Alan Farmer, senior editor of Art Journal "Monster/Beauty is a daringly provocative experiment in personal and erotic writing and an important book for anyone interested in breaking normative codes of beauty, pedagogy, and authorial methodology. In a richly self-revealing text, Frueh proposes nothing less than a Rabellaisian re-ordering of aesthetic embodiments within social relations." —Mira Schor, author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture "Giving new meaning to "embodied writing," this book goes farther than any other toward getting the body into the text. Joanna Frueh is a performance artist first-she is also an art historian, a singer, a poet, a bodybuilder, a professor, an academic celebrity of modest fame, but her performances collapse these distinctions. Frueh's intensely personal, intensely physical prose brings an aura of presence to the book that rivals the effect she achieves on stage." —Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Feminisms "This book is monstrous--full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, step-mothers, and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom erotics, splendid aging. It is a performance in which Frueh explores and celebrates her body, its powers and beauties, and those of her friends and lovers." —Alphonso Lingis, author of Excesses, Abuses, and Dangerous Emotions "A welcome voice in contemporary feminist theory, Frueh's Monster/Beauty reminds us of the pleasures of thinking, teaching and creating in wholly embodied, sensual and passionate acts. Frueh poetically enacts the self as an aesthetic/erotic project, affirming the many different and beautiful selves we can become. It is a joy to read." —Marsha Meskimmon, author of We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism "Joanna Frueh is a hero. I sleep better knowing she's out there writing and thinking." —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
Download or read book Monster Among the Roses written by Linda Kage and published by Linda Kage. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you know how to get to the rose garden?" "No, you can't go there. A monster lives there." Shaw Hollander is desperate. Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother's debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he's sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel. This Beauty and the Beast story holds true to the core of the fable while shaking off the element of fantasy and dragging it into present-day reality. Shaw and Isobel are ready to let you climb into their four-wheel-drive pickup and take a ride with them into their version of happily ever after, but only if you first dare to gaze upon the monster among the roses.
Download or read book MONSTER MADNESS written by K. MacDonald and published by Rainbow Horizons Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since time began, monsters have filled us with curiosity and fear; for they are the best examples of the human imagination unleashed. They haunt our dreams and nightmares but their stories continue to hold us spellbound. Help your class discover the monsters of myths and legends, the strange, unknown creatures of mystery and the real monsters of today. They'll be tickled to death!
Download or read book Once a Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beauty and the Monster written by Luisa Accati and published by EPAP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume cerca di mostrare come i nostri conflitti quotidiani, come quelli con la madre o con il padre, siano influenzati da immagini, simboli o eventi, lontani nel nostro passato senza che ce ne rendiamo perfettamente conto. Per altro verso è trasferendo nella sfera pubblica la nostra sfera privata che possiamo capire eventi storici altrimenti difficilmente spiegabili. Il libro accompagna l'evoluzione del simbolo della concezione nella cultura Cattolica e la rappresentazione della coppia coniugale (Giotto), fino alla rappresentazione della madre da sola (Tiepolo). Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Download or read book The Monstrous Book of Monsters written by Libby Hamilton and published by Templar. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with foul facts and disgusting drawings, this book will tell you everything you need to know about avoiding the monstrous menace ... almost!
Download or read book Producing Women written by Michele White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media—including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides, nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll production—Producing Women elucidates women’s production cultures online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and engage with these practices.
Download or read book The Truth and Beauty written by Andrew Klavan and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus. He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original languages, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. But it wasn't until he began exploring how some of history's greatest writers wrestled with the same issues we confront today--political upheaval, rejection of social norms, growing disbelief in God--that he found a new way of understanding what Jesus meant. In The Truth and Beauty, Klavan combines a decades-long writing career with a lifetime of reading to discover a fresh understanding of the Gospels. By reading the words of Jesus through the life and work of writers such as William Wordsworth and John Keats, Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge--the English romantics--Klavan discovered a way to encounter Jesus in a deeper and more profound way than ever before. For readers seeking to find renewed meaning in the words of Jesus--and for those who are striving for belief in a materialistic world--The Truth and Beauty offers an intimate account of one man's struggle to understand the Gospels in all their strangeness, and so find his way to a life that is, as he says, "the most creative, the most joyful, and surely the most true."
Download or read book Beauty in the Troubled Times written by , Zhenyinfang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qiao Zhi, a modern woman, has passed through a time of war. She met a black wind monster, a notorious flower picking thief in the Jianghu. He stole the jade seal, true or false. But she didn't expect that the black wind monster hid the fake one. The mantis pounced on the cicada and the yellow sparrow. In fact, the people who competed for the jade seal all hid in the dark. When the fake one appeared, it attracted people In the struggle of the people, Qiao Zhi, escorted by a CAI, went back to the Xiangguo mansion smoothly. When Qiao Zhi was granted the title of imperial concubine by the emperor who had never been masked, she could enter the palace. However, Qiao Zhi didn't care about the emperor at all. She didn't sell the emperor's account at all. She often embarrassed the emperor and even made the emperor's eyes blue. This little girl Zi has a personality. The more so the emperor likes to stick to her. In order to love him, he gave up his throne and was willing to live in seclusion. Qiao Muyu became the new emperor. They had different choices but lived the same happy life.
Download or read book The Enchanted written by Rene Denfeld and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite.” — Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus An astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison life allow him to find absolute joy while isolated from the rest of humanity and a female investigator who experiences her own personal salvation in her work as a death penalty investigator. This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it but I do. The enchanted place is a high security prison and is relayed through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that surrounds him. Instead of focusing on the cloudy medical vines that snake across the floor, empty and waiting for the warden’s finger to press the red buttons, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs. A woman and fallen priest haunt the prison halls--an unnamed female investigator only known as the Lady who is known for discovering information relating to soon-to-be executed inmates’ backgrounds that can be used to overturn their sentences. She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything that she has come to know about the enchanted place. The Enchanted is a magical novel about redemption, the humanity that can lie within what is monstrous, and the human capacity to transcend and survive.
Download or read book Beauty Talk Monsters written by Masha Tupitsyn and published by Semiotext(e). This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories told through the movies that revisits the lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s. Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection of stories told through the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a childhood and youth nurtured on the fringe of the glittering lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s. Moving fluidly through space, time, and a range of cinematic frameworks, Tupitsyn cuts through the cynical glamour and illusion of Hollywood to a soft, secret heart.Her narrator, a female loner and traveler, is caught in the maelstrom of films and images, where life is experienced through the eye of a camera lens and seen through the light on the screen. In a precise and elegant style, Beauty Talk & Monsters embraces and confronts a lineage of familiar myths and on- and off-screen cinematic excess in order to challenge the silver screen's century of power over our dreams and ideals. Intimate and intellectual, Tupitsyn's stories play with the cinema's most popular icons and images.
Download or read book The Chester White Swine Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monster of Monsters Mummy Bandages Of Time Fantasy Science Fiction Horror Flash Fiction 6 written by Kristie Lynn Higgins and published by Kristie Lynn Higgins. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monster of Monsters- Mummy: Bandages Of Time Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 330 words This short-short story in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction series visits a Brown Deliveries person as they make their first delivery in a very interesting Basement Level where a mummy is not the only thing lurking there. New to Flash Fiction? Flash Fiction are very very short books to tickle your fancy. They are a great way to see a writer's style and be introduced to the worlds they create and envision. My novels, novellas, short stories, and flash fiction range from science fiction, fantasy, action-adventure, horror with elements of mystery, thriller, suspense, dark fantasy, gothic, a mix of fairy tales, legends, and epic fantasy. Explore my worlds of magic, tech, werewolf, sword and sorcery, killer robots, UFO, witches, dragon baby, undead, demented games, vampires, villains, flying saucers, post-apocalyptic, dungeons and dragons, werewolves, ghosts, mummies, assassins, monsters, androids, leviathan, dystopian adventure, aliens, curse of the mummy, mutants, warlocks, dragon riders, sorcerer, superheroes, dystopia society, zombies, mutant creatures, warriors, sorceress, apocalyptic adventures, pharaoh king, etc.
Download or read book Monsters Monstrosities and the Monstrous in Culture and Society written by Diego Compagna and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.
Download or read book Children s Rhymes Children s Games Children s Songs Children s Stories written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tale of Us Against the Monster written by L.K. Andrew and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of Us Against the Monster follows the journey of a husband and wife. Unguarded and raw, with a touch of humour here and there, this book shares the trials, losses, and insights of a wife caring for her husband who is terminally ill with Cancer. The underlying motif of this tale is “suffering shared” and that those with the disease or caring for loved ones with the disease can know they are not alone.
Download or read book Chester White Swine Record written by Chester White Swine Record Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
