The Passionate Muse

The Passionate Muse PDF Author: Keith Oatley
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199767637
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
A hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.

The Passionate Muse

The Passionate Muse PDF Author: Keith Oatley
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199767637
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
A hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.

The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse

The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse PDF Author: Michael Gungor
Publisher: Woodsley Press
ISBN: 9780988242906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
Our creativity is inextricably entwined with our humanity. So what shall we make of the world?

Passionate Friendship

Passionate Friendship PDF Author: Deborah M. Shamoon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Book Description
Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Friendship answers these questions by reviewing Japanese girls’ print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls’ literary magazines to the 1970s “revolution” shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girls’ literature and illustration across the twentieth century, both pre- and postwar, and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls, even as they were informed by competing political and social ideologies. The author traces the development of girls’ culture in pre–World War II magazines and links it to postwar teenage girls’ comics and popular culture. Within this culture, as private and cloistered as the schools most readers attended, a discourse of girlhood arose that avoided heterosexual romance in favor of “S relationships,” passionate friendships between girls. This preference for homogeneity is echoed in the postwar genre of boys’ love manga written for girls. Both prewar S relationships and postwar boys’ love stories gave girls a protected space to develop and explore their identities and sexuality apart from the pressures of a patriarchal society. Shojo manga offered to a reading community of girls a place to share the difficulties of adolescence as well as an alternative to the image of girls purveyed by the media to boys and men. Passionate Friendship’s close literary and visual analysis of modern Japanese girls’ culture will appeal to a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of Japanese studies, gender studies, and popular culture.

Ophelia's Muse

Ophelia's Muse PDF Author: Rita Cameron
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1617738565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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"I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. You are my muse. Without you there is no art in me." With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. Working in a London milliner's shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to the attention of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Enchanted both by her ethereal appearance and her artistic ambitions--quite out of place for a shop girl--Rossetti draws her into his glittering world of salons and bohemian soirees. Lizzie begins to sit for some of the most celebrated members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, posing for John Everett Millais as Shakespeare's Ophelia, for William Holman Hunt--and especially for Rossetti, who immortalizes her in countless paintings as his namesake's beloved Beatrice. The passionate visions Rossetti creates on canvas are echoed in their intense affair. But while Lizzie strives to establish herself as a painter and poet in her own right, betrayal, illness, and addiction leave her struggling to save her marriage and her sense of self. Rita Cameron weaves historical figures and vivid details into a complex, unconventional love story, giving voice to one of the most influential yet overlooked figures of a fascinating era--a woman who is both artist and inspiration, long gazed upon, but until now, never fully seen. An excerpt from Ophelia’s Muse Rossetti stood behind the canvas, pretending to study Deverell's painting while he admired its model. Despite Deverell's enthusiastic descriptions, Rossetti was completely unprepared for the glorious woman before him. She seemed to be from another age, as if she had sprung to life from an antique painting of an Italian saint. Seated before the window, her hair cast a slight golden glow in the afternoon sun, like a halo. She could not have been more perfect if he had sculpted her from marble with his own hands. Deverell claimed that he had found the perfect Viola, but this girl was far too beautiful to pose as some love-sick page. She was clearly meant to sit for the great heroines of history and myth, and Rossetti vowed to paint her as a queen. "Miss Siddal, has anyone ever told you that you were surely crafted by the gods in order to be painted? If you don't believe that yours is a beauty for the ages, you underestimate yourself." The force of his words struck Lizzie, and she wondered if he was serious, and if it could be true. Was this the thing that she had always been waiting for? Was she really meant to inspire great artists? Her head buzzed with the possibility, but the very allure of the idea felt dangerous. . .

Passionate Fictions

Passionate Fictions PDF Author: Marta Peixoto
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816621594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Book Description
Passionate Fictions was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Clarice Lispector is the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century," Suzanne Ruta noted in the New York Times Book Review, "but because she is a woman and a Brazilian, she has remained virtually unknown in the United States." Passionate Fictions provides American readers with a critical introduction to this remarkable writer and offers those who already know Lispector's fiction a deeper understanding of its complex workings.

The Forsaken Muse, a Woman's Journey from Sorrow to Hope

The Forsaken Muse, a Woman's Journey from Sorrow to Hope PDF Author: Rowena Isidro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456777890
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Book Description
The Forsaken Muse, a Woman's Journey from Sorrow to Hope takes you inside a woman's world as she struggles from despair, sadness, travail and self-examination to finding hope, growth and her own destiny. This is a book of poetry with PASSION, and a collection of beautiful PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS and other ARTt forms. ALL poems are beautifully illustrated by original photography which could stand on their own as beautiful art and were meticulously hand-picked. This book is for women, and therefore also relevant to men. ******************************************* "The book goes through a journey from despair to awakening, healing and triumph at the end. The poems in VOLUME I called 'Songs of Lamentation, My Life is Out of Rhyme' can be quite painful to read for some, but show the realities of life so we can appreciate when we have been through them. VOLUME II, 'I Endure, I Suffer, I Give Birth' takes us further to the woman's journey where she starts to awaken to her natural ability to fight for survival, to do something to change her situation, where she suffers and yet she is involved in birthing something beautiful within her life. VOLUME III, 'Changing...Loving myself, Loving others... Finding me, finding my destiny' shows us the beauty of her transformation, where she now has confidence to move forward, reconciles herself with herself, understands who she really is, and eventually, start to think beyond herself to help others. VOLUME IV is titled 'The Forsaken Woman Finds Herself'. - this provides a conclusion as to her journey and her self-realization. THIS BOOK OF POETRY, WHICH IS A WOMAN'S STORY, WILL NOT DISAPPOINT!

The Muse of Ocean Parkway

The Muse of Ocean Parkway PDF Author: Jacob Lampart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898232561
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The Muse of Ocean Parkway and other stories explores difficulties Jews face while trying to balance their religious practices with the fast-paced, modern society of New York City. Their lives captured in moments of crisis, Jacob Lampart's protagonists range from an artist attempting to escape obscurity to a mother struggling to decide how to raise her adopted Chinese daughter"--Amazon.com, viewed November 4, 2011.

Passionate Intelligence

Passionate Intelligence PDF Author: Arieh Sachs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
Originally published in 1967. Professor Sachs shows the inner coherence of Samuel Johnson's thought by pointing out the interconnectedness of his remarks on religious, moral, aesthetic, political, and psychological subjects. Reason and imagination, the central concepts in the Johnsonian ethos, are elucidated with reference to "vacuity," "attention," "novelty," "diversity," and other words to which Johnson attached special significance. Johnson emerges as an original thinker of the English Christian-humanist heritage; he "is to be read in the same spirit as Pascal." Primarily concerned with the relation between Johnson's ideas and the long tradition of which they are the culmination, Sachs also emphasizes the relevance of Johnson's thought to the twentieth century.

The Muse Is In

The Muse Is In PDF Author: Jill Badonsky
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762444673
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Book Description
A guide to revving up creative genius, providing tips and techniques for overcoming distractions and feelings of being blocked-up and overwhelmed to enable the spark of creative passion.

The Leadership Muse

The Leadership Muse PDF Author: Linda Yvette Cureton
Publisher: Synergy Press, LLC
ISBN: 9780980220957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
With this rich chronicle of encounters with a host of great leaders, Cureton teaches how to recognize the extraordinary artistry of leadership and the great leaders in everyday dealings and in oneself.