Author: Charles Pocock
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557070066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
A 1966 romantic western thriller set in Montana but with World wide dimensions.
Pygmalia---A Contemporary Western Novel
Author: Charles Pocock
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557070066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
A 1966 romantic western thriller set in Montana but with World wide dimensions.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557070066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
A 1966 romantic western thriller set in Montana but with World wide dimensions.
Pygmalion’s Chisel
Author: Tracy M. Hallstead
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443848840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Pygmalion’s Chisel: For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough,” by Tracy M. Hallstead, examines the enduring critical presence in contemporary Western culture that scrutinizes, critiques, and sizes women down in their daily lives, despite rights gained through the centuries. Pygmalion was the ancient mythical sculptor who believed that all women were essentially flawed. He therefore endeavored to chisel to perfection a statue of a woman he called “Galatea.” Like the perpetually carved and perfected Galatea, women labor under Western culture’s a priori assumption that they are flawed, yet they are often unable to account for the self-criticism and self-doubt that result from this premise. As Hallstead analyzes the culture’s requirements for the perfect woman, she traces how cultural forces permeate women’s personal lives. In calling for solutions, she resurfaces the thinking of historical women who responded, rather than reacted, to the patriarchal culture that devalued them. In engaging these women of the past, whose struggles were eerily similar to our own, Hallstead encourages a responsive feminism that becomes the clear path leading outside Pygmalion’s chamber door.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443848840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Pygmalion’s Chisel: For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough,” by Tracy M. Hallstead, examines the enduring critical presence in contemporary Western culture that scrutinizes, critiques, and sizes women down in their daily lives, despite rights gained through the centuries. Pygmalion was the ancient mythical sculptor who believed that all women were essentially flawed. He therefore endeavored to chisel to perfection a statue of a woman he called “Galatea.” Like the perpetually carved and perfected Galatea, women labor under Western culture’s a priori assumption that they are flawed, yet they are often unable to account for the self-criticism and self-doubt that result from this premise. As Hallstead analyzes the culture’s requirements for the perfect woman, she traces how cultural forces permeate women’s personal lives. In calling for solutions, she resurfaces the thinking of historical women who responded, rather than reacted, to the patriarchal culture that devalued them. In engaging these women of the past, whose struggles were eerily similar to our own, Hallstead encourages a responsive feminism that becomes the clear path leading outside Pygmalion’s chamber door.
Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Pygmalion and Galatea
Author: Essaka Joshua
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135174884X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135174884X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.
Pygmalion’s Power
Author: Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271085185
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271085185
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.
Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Marchette Chute
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9780719502286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Retells in prose the 36 comedies, tragedies, and histories appearing in Shakespeare's First Folio.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9780719502286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Retells in prose the 36 comedies, tragedies, and histories appearing in Shakespeare's First Folio.
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism
Author: Adam Possamai
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 981105942X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply following the signs of the times, changes have been so significant that religion is no longer what it used to be. Linking theories from Fredric Jameson and George Ritzer, this book presents the argument that our present society is going through a process of i-zation in which (1) capitalism dominates not only our outer, social lives (through, for example, global capitalism) but also our inner, personal lives, through its expansion in the digital world, facilitated by various i-technology applications; (2) the McDonaldization process has now been normalized; and (3) religiosity has been standardized. Reviewing the new inequalities present in this i-society, the book considers their impact on Jurgen Habermas’s project of post-secularism, and appraises the roles that various religions may have in supporting and/or countering this process. It concludes by arguing that Habermas’s post-secular project will occur but that, paradoxically, the religious message(s) will be instrumentalized for capitalist purposes.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 981105942X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply following the signs of the times, changes have been so significant that religion is no longer what it used to be. Linking theories from Fredric Jameson and George Ritzer, this book presents the argument that our present society is going through a process of i-zation in which (1) capitalism dominates not only our outer, social lives (through, for example, global capitalism) but also our inner, personal lives, through its expansion in the digital world, facilitated by various i-technology applications; (2) the McDonaldization process has now been normalized; and (3) religiosity has been standardized. Reviewing the new inequalities present in this i-society, the book considers their impact on Jurgen Habermas’s project of post-secularism, and appraises the roles that various religions may have in supporting and/or countering this process. It concludes by arguing that Habermas’s post-secular project will occur but that, paradoxically, the religious message(s) will be instrumentalized for capitalist purposes.
Fork in the Road
Author: Denis Hamill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671016741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard ...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671016741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard ...
Translating Life
Author: Shirley Chew
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The identification of reading with translation has a distinguished literary pedigree. This volume, comprising many individual but conceptually interrelated studies, sets out to multiply perspectives on the concept of translation.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The identification of reading with translation has a distinguished literary pedigree. This volume, comprising many individual but conceptually interrelated studies, sets out to multiply perspectives on the concept of translation.