Mom Muse of Mortality

Mom Muse of Mortality PDF Author: Michael D. O’Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 198458264X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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COLLECTED POEMS IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS Death In Life/Life In Death By An ‘APO’KSTROPHES’

Mom Muse of Mortality

Mom Muse of Mortality PDF Author: Michael D. O’Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 198458264X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
COLLECTED POEMS IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS Death In Life/Life In Death By An ‘APO’KSTROPHES’

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers PDF Author: Rebecca Munford
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103451
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter’s feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. This book analyses Carter’s textual engagements with a dirty lineage of European Gothic that can be mapped from the Marquis de Sade’s obsession with desecration and defilement, through Baudelaire’s perverse decompositions of the muse and decadent imaginings of infernal femininity, to surrealism’s violent dreams of abjection. It argues that Carter’s most troublesome engagements with her European Gothic forefathers are unexpectedly those which are most vital to a consideration of her feminist politics. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers will be of interest to researchers and students working on contemporary women’s writing, the Gothic and comparative literature.

Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother

Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother PDF Author: Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhood In the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh argues that male poets have contributed to what we think of as the literature of motherhood—that confessional and postconfessional modes have been formative in the way male poets have grappled with the stories of their mothers and how those stories reflect on the writers and their artistic identities. Through careful readings of formative elegies and homages written by male poets of this time, Saltmarsh explores how they engaged with femininity and feminine voices in the 1950s and 60s and sheds light on the inheritance of confessional motifs of gender and language as demonstrated by postconfessional writers responding to the rich subject matter of motherhood within the contexts of history, myth, and literature. A foreword is provided by Jo Gill, professor of twentieth-century and American literature in the Department of English and associate dean for education at the University of Exeter.

Indigo's Umbrella

Indigo's Umbrella PDF Author: MichaeI D. O’Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669873161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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This is a fantastically exciting tale that rumbles and rhymes with nature’s creative existence in play with humanity’s promise, the magnificent life forms all over the planet, the treasures of the human family, and the wonders of personal creativity. A tale embodying the symbolic inter play of philosophy, science, imagination, storytelling, adventure, and spirituality. Hopefully reader-viewers (of all ages) will resonate with the utter excitement and glory of our creative life on this Earthen Home of families -- and how each weaves and chapters their own story as they journey home singing in the sunshine -- “We Are The Joyful, Joyful, Joyful Colors Of The World.”

Measuring Mamma's Milk

Measuring Mamma's Milk PDF Author: Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110780
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Book Description
Shows how fascist biological politics continue to govern the flow of mother's milk in Italy today

A Letter to My Mom

A Letter to My Mom PDF Author: Lisa Erspamer
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
ISBN: 0804139687
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.

Sos Song of Songs

Sos Song of Songs PDF Author: Michael D. O’Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664126597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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SYMMYSTS OF SYZYGY & SAVING OUR SPHERECIES FROM MOM [A] MOM TO POP [A] POP TO SAVING OUR STORE by an ‘Apo’kstrophes’ in concert with the Sounds of Silence the SCREAMS OF SCIENCE & SUSTAINS OF SUSTAINABIITY BEHOLD THE HOLDING OF OUR GROUND OF THE HELD GAIA & ATLAS HUGGED SPHERE AND SPECIES HOLDING EACH AS ONE SACRALS OF SENTIENCE

The Dangers of Interpretation

The Dangers of Interpretation PDF Author: Ilona Treitel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317945441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Book Description
First published in 1996. This comparative study investigates thematic and technical similarities in the works of the two authors who shared a cultural heritage and achieved comparable status in their separate literary traditions. Drawing upon theories by Bloom, Bakhtin, and Lacan, the book examines ways in which Henry James and Thomas Mann treat the creative artist and analyze the creative and interpretive processes in their fiction. The texts covered range from early works to their great modern novels: The GoldenBowland Doctor Faustus To a great extent, the similarities between the works stem from the authors' preoccupation with artistic responsibility. Adopting Bloom's claim that the creative activity is an interpretive one, and that the reader, as well as the writer, interprets a text into being the book also investigates the reader's responsibility in confronting the dilemmas challenging James' and Mann's artist figures. Such challenges are "the dangers of interpretation" discussed in this book. Index. Bibliography.

My Mother's Body

My Mother's Body PDF Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307761398
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification. "The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume. Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father. Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother. In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.

Bomb Shelter

Bomb Shelter PDF Author: Mary Laura Philpott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982160799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
"A ... memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"--