Author: Lillian Francis Burke
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443853224
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva: An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism takes as its project the articulation of the language of schizophrenia as it inscribes itself between the self and ‘other.’ It takes into account Georg W. F. Hegel’s account of self-consciousness as a master-slave relation. A reading of Jacques Lacan provides access to the narrative self in terms of the “mirror stage” as the recognition of the self as ‘other’. By a further reading of postmodern theorists, this book shows that what has been named schizophrenia calls for a deconstructive strategy that operates with the divergence between pharmacological treatment and the understanding of the language of the schizophrenic condition. This difference will emphasize language as plural, plurivalent, polyphonic and polylogical. This book, essentially, seeks to circumvent the label of “schizophrenia” and to provide alternative ways to understand schizophrenic language in order to culturally rearticulate its effects in society. Postmodern and deconstructive modes of access to the languages of desire, dispersal, and plurivalence that are associated with schizophrenic conditions can help to open up spaces of understanding that are rendered impossible through symptomatic treatment models.
Author: Helen Lovatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107276535
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating, ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. Helen Lovatt demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. She discusses mortals appropriating the divine gaze, prophets as both penetrative viewers and rape victims, explores the divine authority of epic ecphrasis, and exposes the way that heroic bodies are fragmented and fetishised.
Author: Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226309711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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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.
Author: George Houston
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Stephanie Laurens
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006175384X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Amelia Cynster is stunned to hear these words from Lucien Ashford—the enigmatic sixth Viscount Calverton and the man she has always loved—just before the handsome rogue passes out at her feet. Dawn is breaking and she's already risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London home. And though torn between indignant affront and astonished relief, she's nevertheless thrilled that Luc has agreed to her outrageous marriage proposal. However, rather than submitting to a hasty wedding as Amelia had planned, the exasperating lord insists on wooing her properly…in public and in private. She longs for their time alone, when she can learn all about seduction from a master, yet frustratingly, they all too often find themselves beneath the stifling gaze of the ton. But there is method behind the viscount's madness—he has a secret reason for wooing Amelia. And like all desirable things, his passion has a price.
Author: Abigail Soto
Publisher: Relentless Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A witch's quest for answers leads her to uncover a dark family secret and a deadly supernatural threat. Minerva Mysteries: The Ties That Bind In the captivating first book of the Minerva Mysteries series, Minerva Winters, the formidable Head Witch of New York City, finds herself facing a complex web of old family matters, personal demons, and an insidious supernatural adversary. When the death of her beloved Aunt Ginny brings her back to her small town in Iowa, Minerva must navigate a minefield of unresolved familial tensions, unearthing secrets from her own past along the way. As she grapples with these intricate dynamics, she also faces a formidable otherworldly menace that has been lurking in the shadows for generations. Includes Novel, DnD 5 E Rules for the World of Minerva and More.
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Author: Timothy Murray
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816629617
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A doubled-edged critical forum, this volume brings early modern culture and psychoanalysis into revisionist dialogue with each other. The authors reflect on how psychoanalysis remains "possessed" by its incorporation of early modern mythologies, vision, credos, and phantasms, which may--or may not--be applicable today. 23 photos.
Author: David Whitewolf
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595327249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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"Something was wrong. The window was open. I had never opened it. Aunt Puff hadn't either. Had Minerva? I looked back at her seat. Minerva's leopard-print cowboy hat lay on the floor. "Minerva!" Ludwig growled, sniffing the air. Ciber squawked furiously, banging his feathers against his cage. Smoke swirled round the chair where Minerva had been sitting. The silly hands tried to fan it away. I gulped. Ludwig covered his eyes with his paws. Minerva had vanished." Aunt Puff's old friend from the Elcarim Foundation has come for a summer visit. But, before you can say "Marbles!", Minerva has disappeared during a game of bubble gum charades. Aunt Puff, her niece Alexandra, her Great Dane Ludwig, and Minerva's cockatoo Ciber jump out of windows, battle flying fish, run from lemonade, splatter fudge on ghosts, and even fly with pinwheel power in their search for Minerva. But is someone more sinister than a muumuu wearing Siren behind Minerva's disappearance? It seems Orpheus's harp has been found. And, dragons are afoot.
Author: Claire Chi-ah Lyu
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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A Sun within a Sun is a sustained poetic reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, not only for poet and theorist but also for reader, critic, teacher, and student. It sees poetry as life at its most genuine.Using Baudelaire and Mallarme as principal examples, but drawing on a wide range of poets and thinkers, from Greek mythology to Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Blake; from Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Italo Calvino to William James and Henry Miller, Claire Chi-ah Lyu challenges contemporary poetic theory, using precise and acute deconstruction of poetic imagery to reconstruct language so that it celebrates both meaning and beauty. A Sun within a Sun explores the notions of lightness and weight, discipline and indulgence, freedom and loss of will that are inherent in the poetic enterprise. It poses that lightness, discipline, freedom, and risk are essential for an approach to the enigma of beauty through an elegant shaping of form that holds true not only in poetry but also in pure science and even fashion. Poetry is a language within a language, a heightened and intense awareness of what words mean and what they can do, at its best creating an intensity of a sun within a sun. The poet and reader of poetry must take the risk Icarus took of approaching the sun, for without the risk there is no fulfillment.A Sun within a Sun seeks a shaping of form and content that discovers poetry as power, as a practice of life that honors and makes possible both thought and feeling.
