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A Dark Muse

Gary Lachman

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780786751907

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The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de sièe, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry.

Dangerous Muse

Nancy Schoenberger

Author : Nancy Schoenberger
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307822352

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Caroline Blackwood was born into the Guinness family in 1931, the daughter of the Fourth Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Brought up on the ancestral estate in Northern Ireland, Blackwood moved easily among the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the Soho bohemians of postwar England, and the liberal intelligentsia of 1960s New York. She was on intimate terms with some of the most celebrated artists and writers of her time. An unpredictable beauty known for her wit and her courage, she has been called a muse to genius. But her marriages to three brilliant men: the painter Lucian Freud, the composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell were as troubled as they were inspiring. During her marriage to Lucian Freud, Caroline became part of an artistic and literary group that included Francis Bacon and Cyril Connolly who was infatuated with her but eventually Freud's gambling caused irrevocable problems between them. Caroline was also in the grips of her own unfolding tragedy: a fatal attraction to alcohol that would plague the rest of her life. Upon the breakup of her first marriage, she moved to America , where she met her second and third husbands. Once regarded as the obvious successor to Aaron Copland, Israel Citkowitz had stopped composing long before he met Caroline. While he and Caroline had three children together, it was her subsequent seven year marriage to Robert Lowell that she considered her "main marriage." Her life with Lowell was probably the most difficult time of her life as she dealt with his increasingly frequent and worsening attacks of mania. And to Lowell she was not only an inspiration but_as he described in his Pulitzer-prize- winning book of verse The Dolphin, she was also "a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers." In 1977, Robert Lowell fled London to return to his former wife Elizabeth Hardwick. He died from a heart attack in the backseat of a taxi, clutching Girl in Bed, Lucian Freud's haunting portrait of Caroline. Blackwood was an artist in her own right. Her literary talents were dark and satiric; her ten books of fiction and nonfiction betrayed an extraordinary eye for human physiognomy, attire, and behavior. Arguably her best book, Great Granny Webster described the comic terrors of her upbringing in Northern Ireland, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She herself died of cancer on Valentine's Day 1996, at the age of sixty-four. Dangerous Muse is the first biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood. Drawing upon numerous interviews and unpublished letters from Blackwood's mother, Maureen Dufferin, and friends and family, including Andrew Harvey, Jonathan Raban, John Richardson, and Caroline's sister Perdita Blackwood, Nancy Schoenberger eloquently captures one of the most original and provocative figures in contemporary letters of the twentieth century.

Muse

Julia Gabriel

Author : Julia Gabriel
Publisher : Serif Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Readers are saying, “Holy hotness!” … “the sexiest thing I have ever read” … “5 stars are not enough!” One wealthy heir. One new college grad. A roommate who can best be described as sex on a stick. A job that entails researching Regency era brothels and, um, “acting.” What could possibly go wrong? (Damn near everything.) My name is Sim. This book is about Alaric White—my best friend, college roommate, partner in literary crime. Alaric writes kissing books. And by “kissing,” I mean … well, you know what I mean. He writes each book with a muse. (If the IRS asks, tell them she’s a “research assistant.”) Yeah, I’ve told him this reflects a certain lack of imagination on his part. But I help out with his books so far be it from me to complain too much. Usually it doesn’t take him long to find a “research assistant” for a new book. Women send him their “resumes.” Call. Email. Turn up at every stop on his book tours. (I know, it’s a rough life but someone has to live it.) But his current work-in-progress? Well, it’s different. So he needs a different muse. Someone innocent and untouched … but also brave enough to embark on a journey into her deepest, darkest desires. After a year, he’s still searching. His agent is getting antsy. (Okay, she’s on the verge of full-blown panic that he won’t finish the book on time.) Then he sees her, looking like an angel just arisen from a leisurely afternoon of amour. (His exact words.) She’s sitting in a suburban coffee shop … and being threatened by a goon with a pistol in his waistband. (Dear reader, he rescues her.) Then a plot twist no one saw coming. He knows he should let her go. But he’s a selfish bastard. (I am too, but that’s a different story.) He just needs to keep her long enough to finish the book … Muse is a melt-your-clothes-off scorching hot standalone billionaire (well, Alaric's not technically a billionaire but he acts like one half the time) boss romance with a sweet happy ever after. (If I might say so myself.) Find out why readers are saying, “Holy hotness!” … “the sexiest thing I have ever read” … “5 stars are not enough!” (Well, I’m one of the reasons why they say that.) Of course, everyone wants my story now, too. We’ll see. My story makes Alaric’s look like a damn fairy tale. A twisted sort of fairy tale, but … well, just read it. (Trust me, it’s worth it.)

Deleuze, The Dark Precursor

Eleanor Kaufman

Author : Eleanor Kaufman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406480

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A thoughtful and original analysis of the writings of influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. Deleuze, The Dark Precursor is organized around three themes that critically overlap: dialectic, structure, and being. Kaufman argues that Deleuze's work is deeply concerned with these concepts, even when he advocates for the seemingly opposite notions of univocity, nonsense, and becoming. By drawing on scholastic thought and reading somewhat against the grain, Kaufman suggests that these often-maligned themes allow for a nuanced, even positive reflection on apparently negative states of being, such as extreme inertia. This attention to the negative or minor category has implications that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory, film, American studies, anthropology, and architecture.

The Dedalus Book of the Occult

Gary Lachman

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Inspiration
ISBN : 1909232440

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'The Dedalus Book of the Occult' celebrates the influence of occult thought on some of the central poets and writers of the last two centuries, beginning with the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics and leading through to the deep occult roots of the modernist movement.

Muse of Nightmares

Laini Taylor

Author : Laini Taylor
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316341707

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Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor Pdf

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice--save the woman he loves, or everyone else?--while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of. As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer./DIV

A Dark Trace

Herman Westerink

Author : Herman Westerink
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Guilt
ISBN : 9789058677549

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Figures of the Unconscious, No. 8Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace," thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. In Freud's view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path, that leads deep into the individual's mental state, into childhood memories, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. Herman Westerink follows this trace and analyzes Freud's thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work, from the earliest studies on the moral and "guilty" characters of the hysterics, via later complex differentiations within the concept of the sense of guilt, and finally to Freud's conception of civilization's discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory but also in relation to Freud's debates with other psychoanalysts, including Carl Jung and Melanie Klein.

Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse

Chantel Acevedo

Author : Chantel Acevedo
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062947710

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Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse by Chantel Acevedo Pdf

The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Callie Martinez-Silva didn’t mean to turn her best friend into a pop star. But when a simple pep talk leads to miraculous results, Callie learns she’s the newest muse of epic poetry, one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology tasked with protecting humanity’s fate in secret. Whisked away to Muse Headquarters, she joins three recruits her age, who call themselves the Muse Squad. Together, the junior muses are tasked with using their magic to inspire and empower—not an easy feat when you’re eleven and still figuring out the goddess within. When their first assignment turns out to be Callie’s exceptionally nerdy classmate, Maya Rivero, the squad comes to Miami to stay with Callie and her Cuban family. There, they discover that Maya doesn’t just need inspiration, she needs saving from vicious Sirens out to unleash a curse that will corrupt her destiny. As chaos erupts, will the Muse Squad be able to master their newfound powers in time to thwart the Cassandra Curse . . . or will it undo them all?

Muse

Mary Novik

Author : Mary Novik
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385668224

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Richly engaging historical adventure in the vein of The Winter Palace and The Malice of Fortune. Muse is the story of the charismatic woman who was the inspiration behind Petrarch's sublime love poetry. Solange Le Blanc begins life in the tempestuous streets of 14th century Avignon, a city of men dominated by the Pope and his palace. When her mother, a harlot, dies in childbirth, Solange is raised by Benedictines who believe she has the gift of clairvoyance. Trained as a scribe, but troubled by disturbing visions and tempted by a more carnal life, she escapes to Avignon, where she becomes entangled in a love triangle with the poet Petrarch, becoming not only his muse but also his lover. Later, when her gift for prophecy catches the Pope's ear, Solange becomes Pope Clement VI's mistress and confidante in the most celebrated court in Europe. When the plague kills a third of Avignon's population, Solange is accused of sorcery and is forced once again to reinvent herself and fight against a final, mortal conspiracy. Muse is a sweeping historical epic that magically evokes the Renaissance, capturing a time and place caught between the shadows of the past and the promise of a new cultural awakening.

Dark Muse

David Simms

Author : David Simms
Publisher : Fire and Ice
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1612356605

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Sixteen year old Muddy Rivers has always wanted to fit in with the ""regular"" crowd. He aches for a romance with his blind friend, Poe, but knows he doesn't stand a chance. He hopes that his life as the guitarist for his band, the Accidentals, will help him accomplish gaining her attention. But then his brother disappears playing a mysterious song and Muddy is plunged into a world of music where songs come to life. He must learn to harness the power of the legendary crossroads and what lies on the other side if they are to conquer a series of trials which no one expects ""special"" or ""different"" teens to survive. Along with drummer Otis, singer Poe, and saxophonist Corey, Muddy must cross the river that is the source for all creativity. Once there, the band fights a world alive with horrors and realize their path to redemption is hindered by obstacles that may destroy them: the Tritons, vicious inhuman leaders of the strange land.

Muse Rider

Lucian Bane

Author : Lucian Bane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729085660

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Poe is back on Earth and discovers some of his Scribbler's naughty stories and sets out to become her darkest fantasies.

Dark Muse (a gothic shifter rockstar romance)

Lisa Carlisle

Author : Lisa Carlisle
Publisher : Lisa Carlisle
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dark Muse (a gothic shifter rockstar romance) by Lisa Carlisle Pdf

A shy painter. A mysterious rockstar. And a secret. Gina’s carefree days of painting at the remote art colony are shattered when she stumbles into a welcome gathering of a famed rock guitarist. Dante seeks solitude to work on his music. When a shy young painter asks to paint him at sunset, he’s tempted by the opportunity to be alone with her. As he grows closer to Gina, Dante fears his plans are coming undone. Her scent and vulnerability are too difficult to resist. But she would never understand his secret. If it gets out, it may ruin his career. And destroy so much more... Escape to the Chateau, a gothic art colony on a remote island where you may encounter vampires, shifters, and gargoyles. Full of fiery, forbidden romance and irresistible, misunderstood heroes, this series will captivate fans of steamy paranormal romance and lovers of all things gothic! Voted Book of the Month for January at Long and Short Reviews! ***** FIVE STARS ***** “While it is a story about struggle, it is also about love; and doing whatever needs to be done to be with the one you are attracted to. I really enjoyed the dynamic between Gina and Dante. This story has the perfect amount of witty banter, sex, and romance.” – from Books and Beyond Fifty Shades For readers of J. R. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter, Laurann Dohner, Christine Feehan, Kresley Cole, Lynsay Sands, Nalini Singh, Jennifer L Armentrout, Patricia Briggs, gargoyle romance book, complete series, witches, rockstar, guitarist, rock star, paranormal romance series, shapeshifter romance, magic, shifter romance, shapeshifter romance with sex, shy heroine, non-human hero, new adult paranormal romance, speculative fiction, paranormal romance witches, paranormal romance shifters, romantic fantasy series, new adult, supernatural, female protagonist, secret, contemporary, sensual, urban, contemporary, monster romance, digital audiobook, ai audiobook, digitally-narrated

Joyce's Book of the Dark

John Bishop

Author : John Bishop
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299108236

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“Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement

From Light to Dark

Tim Edensor

Author : Tim Edensor
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452953410

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Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness. Tim Edensor begins by examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks, particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can be used to express power, looking at how capitalist, class, ethnic, military, and state power use lighting to reinforce their authority over space. Edensor also considers light artists such as Olafur Eliasson and festivals of illumination before turning a critical eye to the supposedly dangerous, sinister associations of darkness. In examining the modern city as a space of fantasy through electric illumination, he studies how we are seeking—and should seek—new forms of darkness in reaction to the perpetual glow of urban lighting. Highly original and absorbingly written, From Light to Dark analyzes a vast array of artistic interventions, diverse spaces, and lighting technologies to explore these most basic human experiences.

Dark Pasts

Jennifer M. Dixon

Author : Jennifer M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501730252

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Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands that they recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have apologized for past crimes, others continue to silence, deny, and relativize dark pasts. What explains the tremendous variation in how states deal with past crimes? When and why do states change the stories they tell about their dark pasts. Dark Pasts argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in official narratives about dark pasts, but domestic considerations determine the content of such change. Rather than simply changing with the passage of time, persistence, or rightness, official narratives of dark pasts are shaped by interactions between political factors at the domestic and international levels. Unpacking the complex processes through which international pressures and domestic dynamics shape states’ narratives, Jennifer M. Dixon analyzes the trajectories over the past sixty years of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915–17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937–38 Nanjing Massacre. While both states’ narratives started from similar positions of silencing, relativizing, and denial, Japan has come to express regret and apologize for the Nanjing Massacre, while Turkey has continued to reject official wrongdoing and deny the genocidal nature of the violence. Combining historical richness and analytical rigor, Dark Pasts unravels the complex processes through which such narratives are constructed and contested, and offers an innovative way to analyze narrative change. Her book sheds light on the persistent presence of the past and reveals how domestic politics functions as a filter that shapes the ways in which states’ narratives change—or do not—over time.

A Dark Muse

A Dark Muse by Gary Lachman Pdf

Dangerous Muse by Nancy Schoenberger Pdf

Muse by Julia Gabriel Pdf

Deleuze, The Dark Precursor by Eleanor Kaufman Pdf

The Dedalus Book of the Occult by Gary Lachman Pdf

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor Pdf

A Dark Trace by Herman Westerink Pdf

Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse by Chantel Acevedo Pdf

Muse by Mary Novik Pdf

Dark Muse by David Simms Pdf

Muse Rider by Lucian Bane Pdf

Dark Muse (a gothic shifter rockstar romance) by Lisa Carlisle Pdf

Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop Pdf

From Light to Dark by Tim Edensor Pdf

Dark Pasts by Jennifer M. Dixon Pdf

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