Finding Persephone

Author : Maryline G. Parca,Angeliki Tzanetou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030256783

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Finding Persephone by Maryline G. Parca,Angeliki Tzanetou Pdf

Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many public arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and classical antiquity will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain.

Author : Sarah M. Eden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Married people
ISBN : 1608612813

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Seeking Persephone by Sarah M. Eden Pdf

Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the Duke of Kielder's castle is as cold and forbidding as the Duke himself, a man with terrible scars on his body and his soul. But the Duke's steely determination to protect his heart at all costs is challenged by his growing attachment to his lovely and gentle bride--Persephone Lancaster.

Author : Jin Ni
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304906618

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Persephone Incarnate by Jin Ni Pdf

Author : Stina Leicht
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534414594

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Persephone Station by Stina Leicht Pdf

"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about it's proprietary AI's, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch of worn mercenaries who have a thing for doing the honorable thing, despite the odds. And in a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation, the odds are not going to be good, but it would be a glorious fight. Award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a visciously feminist take on The Magnificent Seven by the way of Blade Runner and Westworld"--

Author : Charles Stein
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781556435812

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Persephone Unveiled by Charles Stein Pdf

Persephone Unveiled reveals the goddess in all her guises, as the daughter of Demeter; the Queen of the Underworld; the archetypal female healer; and as a central figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, where celebrants experienced sacred visions through secret rituals fueled by an LSD-like substance. The author examines the known details about the psychoactive agent and explores the Mysteries' influence on, and relationship to, early Christianity. Guided meditations, using active imagination techniques, help readers summon an experience with the goddess.

Author : Barbara Noble
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1903155509

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Doreen by Barbara Noble Pdf

Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the couple who take her in.

Author : Ueli Dill,Christine Walde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110209099

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Antike Mythen by Ueli Dill,Christine Walde Pdf

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischenAltertumswissenschaftlern und Religionswissenschaftlern, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen und seiner Transformationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Epochen darbieten.

Author : Susan Glaspell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664596253

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Fidelity by Susan Glaspell Pdf

'Fidelity' is a novel written by author Susan Glaspell. The story revolves around the life experiences of Ruth Holland, a young woman from a Midwestern town called Freeport, Iowa, who defies the societal mandates of her times when she falls in love with a married man and runs away to Colorado with him. When she returns to her hometown after 11 years, she has to deal with the death of her father, the break-up of her family, and the rejection of her loved ones.

Author : Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910263230

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Expiation by Elizabeth Von Arnim Pdf

Author : Tamara Agha-Jaffar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786413433

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Demeter and Persephone by Tamara Agha-Jaffar Pdf

The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.

Author : Jana Rivers Norton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443868464

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The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives of Literary Women by Jana Rivers Norton Pdf

This volume explores the life stories of Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Edith Wharton, whose individuation process mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and rage to purposeful reconciliation. These authors often courted humiliation and consequent exile by voicing what others did not want to acknowledge, yet each took restorative action to discover and preserve emotional and mental wellbeing. Writing during the 19th and early 20th centuries when an association between female authors and physical ailments, neurasthenia, hysteria, and other nervous complaints by the medical paternity reflected how society in general understood mental illness, as well as the narrative perceptions of women, Bishop, Woolf, James and Wharton, claimed personal autonomy by speaking truth about sorrow and suffering in their lives. Despite restrictions and limiting gender norms, each author continuously recast painful experiences of loss, abuse and mental illness, as fodder for the imagination to forge lasting literary careers. The book emphasizes the therapeutic value of narrative disclosure and its ability to yield a deeper understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on women writers, and how their creative response shaped modern culture. As such, it contextualizes trauma as lived experience for each writer, along with current research on early loss and mourning, childhood abuse, and family systems theory, in order to appreciate more fully how writing as ritual may help transform mental and emotional debility.

Author : Joyce Piven,Susan Applebaum
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408174555

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In the Studio with Joyce Piven by Joyce Piven,Susan Applebaum Pdf

In the Studio with Joyce Piven takes you directly inside the creative process of the renowned Piven Workshop led by Joyce and Byrne Piven. The Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago has nurtured theatre artists celebrated in the US, Ireland and Britain including Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Aidan Quinn, Sarah Ruhl, Lili Taylor and Kate Walsh. Co-authors Joyce Piven and Susan Applebaum describe the Workshop techniques (developed and refined over forty years of theatrical training) as a virtual fly-on-the-wall experience, taking the reader inside the director's studio, classroom, and green room. Part One introduces the central principles of game work and the concept of 'encounter' - finding the emotional experience at the heart of a set of given circumstances - and ends with a chapter on the role of story theatre as a bridge between games and play text. Part Two takes you into the classroom with Joyce Piven through fully-detailed transcripts of physical and vocal workshops on play, agreement, specificity, transformation and story theatre, accompanied by explanations and tips for teaching. The book ends with an alphabetical appendix of games taught by Byrne and Joyce Piven based on their work with Paul Sills and Viola Spolin, Etienne Decroux, Uta Hagen and Mira Rostova. A highly regarded guide and resource for actors, teachers, and directors, for anyone interested in the creative process of acting and actor training.

Author : Rowan McCandless
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459747630

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Persephone's Children by Rowan McCandless Pdf

Finalist for 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction • Co-Winner of 2022 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell. Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency. It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world. A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Author : Clare Winger Harris
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338118943

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Persephone of Eleusis by Clare Winger Harris Pdf

Persephone of Eleusis is a historical romance by Clare Winger Harris. She was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s and is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines. Her stories often dealt with characters on the "borders of humanity" such as cyborgs._x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "The reddening glow of an evening sun was shed upon the little town of Anthela in Locris as Zopyrus, a young Persian officer in the army of Xerxes passed quickly from the shadows of the temple to Demeter into the narrow street. In his general bearing and physique he was truly a Persian; large of frame, broad of shoulders, with a proportionally small but well poised head. But the tight clusters of blond curls, clear blue eyes and sensitiveness of mouth were not distinguishing traits of Persian parentage. There was a seriousness in his expression far in advance of his years which may have numbered four and twenty."

Author : Robin Corak
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789043341

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Pagan Portals - Persephone by Robin Corak Pdf

Embark upon a powerful journey with Persephone, Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Spring, as she helps you to discover your personal power and take control of your life. 'There is something for everyone in this book, which will be of interest to long-standing devotees of Persephone as well as those feeling newly-called to work with this powerful Goddess who helps us to walk a path of empowerment.' Jhenah Telyndru, founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon and author of Rhiannon: Great Queen of the Celtic Britons