Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories

Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories PDF Author: Colette Standish
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387594567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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An interpretation of the life and works of the diarist and erotic writer, Anais Nin seen through varies mediums including mirrors, glass and light-box installations.

Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories

Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories PDF Author: Colette Standish
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387594567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
An interpretation of the life and works of the diarist and erotic writer, Anais Nin seen through varies mediums including mirrors, glass and light-box installations.

The Drowned Muse

The Drowned Muse PDF Author: Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019101897X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine," the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also referred to as "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is similarly "a ghost story for grown-ups", narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Inconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue", casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.

Anais Nin

Anais Nin PDF Author: Maryanne Raphael
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595288308
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"For readers unfamiliar with her subject, Maryanne Raphael's biography, Anais Nin, The Voyage Within, is a sensitive, uncomplicated introduction to the life and work of one of the 20th century's most quintessentially feminine artists. For Nin devotees, the biography is a refresher course taking us back through the vast material of the Diaries and novels that enchanted and inspired our love. Raphael accepts Nin entirely on her own terms. Thanks to a warm, personal relationship with Rupert Pole, Nin's surviving husband and executor of her estate, Raphael opens up some of the mystery that has hitherto surrounded Nin's relationship with her husbands-an aspect of Nin's life that was never explicitly described in the original Diaries. The result is a multi-dimensional portrait in which Nin's two selves, artist and woman are fully integrated. Nin the woman consciously chooses to realize female desire, give form to female imagination, always loving as she remains completely focused on birthing a new unabashedly feminine literature. Thank you, Maryanne!" -Dolores Brandon, Author of IN THE SHADOW OF MADNESS, A Memoir

Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts

Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts PDF Author: Johanna Braun
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030663604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts—as it is often in such cases—seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955 PDF Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547564007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD. “Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women . . . groping with and growing with the world.” —Minneapolis Tribune Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann

Into The Looking-Glass Wood

Into The Looking-Glass Wood PDF Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307363686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and beyond the reader's hopes, a book can make us better and wiser." Through personal stories and literary reflections, in a style rich in humour and gentle erudition, Manguel leads us, the readers, to reflect upon the pleasures and responsibilities of reading, and the links that exist between the world we live in, and the words we live amongst. Into the Looking-Glass Wood is a voyage into the subversive heart of words - a voyage fired by the author's humanity and extraordinary breadth of vision.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man

In Favor of the Sensitive Man PDF Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544148681
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Essays, lectures, and interviews—on everything from gender relations to Ingmar Bergman to adventure travel—from the renowned diarist. In this collection, the author known for “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts (Los Angeles Times). In the opening group of essays, “Women and Men,” Anaïs Nin provides the kind of sensitive insights into the feminine psyche and relations between the sexes that are a hallmark of her work. In “Writing, Music, and Films,” she speaks as an artist and critic—in book and film reviews, an essay on the composer Edgard Varèse, a lecture on Ingmar Bergman, and the story of her printing press. In the final section, “Enchanted Places,” Nin records her travels to such destinations as Fez and Agadir in Morocco, Bali, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia—and she concludes with a charming vignette titled “My Turkish Grandmother.”

Viaggio

Viaggio PDF Author: Colette Standish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A Poetry and Art book based on one woman's journey through life but at the same time reflects a journey every woman takes and experiences at some point in her life." -- from author's website.

Companion to Literature

Companion to Literature PDF Author: Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143812743X
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 859

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Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections

Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections PDF Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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