Passionate Friendship

Author : Deborah M. Shamoon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824861117

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Passionate Friendship by Deborah M. Shamoon Pdf

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.

Author : Katrin Berndt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317132615

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Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830 by Katrin Berndt Pdf

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot, character formation, and style in the British novel from the 1760s to the 1830s, Katrin Berndt argues that friendship functions as a literary expression of philosophical values in a genre that explores the psychology and the interactions of the individual in modern society. In the literary historical period in which the novel became established as a modern genre, friend characters were omnipresent, reflecting enlightenment philosophy’s definition of friendship as a bond that civilized public and private interactions and was considered essential for the attainment of happiness. Berndt’s analyses of genre-defining novels by Frances Brooke, Mary Shelley, Sarah Scott, Helen Maria Williams, Charlotte Lennox, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth show that the significance of friendship and the increasing variety of novelistic forms and topics represent an overlooked dynamic in the novel’s literary history. Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndt’s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society, continuing Enlightenment debates about how to share the lives and the experiences of others.

Author : Liz Carmichael
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567149374

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Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love by Liz Carmichael Pdf

The love of friendship has, at the least, established its place as a necessary model of love in Christian tradition. This study shows the deep roots it has in Christian thought, among both ancient and modern writers, and is intended to facilitate further reflection on and exploration of its creative potential now and for the future.

Author : Dr. James Evans McReynolds
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595828586

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Passionate Joy by Dr. James Evans McReynolds Pdf

Passionate Joy connects the psychological and spiritual understanding of our least discussed human emotion. This book reflects the dawn of a revolutionary approach to living. Norman Vincent Peale anointed Jim McReynolds as minister of joy to the world. The most important characteristic of a minister of joy is humility. This book teaches people the purpose of our lives is to create an atmosphere for joy and miracles to happen. Life is difficult. Building a wealth of joy enables us to know happiness. Readers will enter the joy of the Lord as they reflect upon their own joy. This book can be used as a text for study groups. Questions for reflections are included at the end of each chapter. This book was envisioned during studies at Vanderbilt University and the University of Oxford in England. The material has been shared during a lifetime of weekend retreats, conferences, and seminars for churches, schools, workplaces, and community groups.

Author : Faith Eury Cho
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780593445570

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Experiencing Friendship with God by Faith Eury Cho Pdf

Build a confident friendship with Jesus that will carry you through the seasons of wilderness and back to abundance, with ancient wisdom alongside modern guidance from pastor and speaker Faith Eury Cho. “A kind guide to help us explore the riches of our friend and Savior, Jesus . . . You’ll love this book.”—Jess Connolly, author of You Are the Girl For the Job and Breaking Free From Body Shame In the wilderness of the soul, we can become more familiar with pain than progress and more acquainted with loneliness than companionship. But what if the purpose of our wandering is not to reach the Promised Land but to recognize that God is with us in the desert? In Experiencing Friendship with God, speaker and pastor Faith Eury Cho draws on Brother Lawrence’s ancient wisdom about intimacy with God to help us know God’s Presence more fully in today’s complicated world. With practical ideas and stories from her own spiritual journey, Faith explores how to • wrestle with the tension of believing in God even when we can’t sense Him • glean wisdom from Israel’s journey in the wilderness • understand what a life centered around God’s Presence looks like • find tools to deepen our intimacy with God • embrace the paradox of mystery and faith and of longing and hope If knowing the Presence of God is our greatest desire, then every season of our lives has significance—even the wilderness. In that barren land, we realize that the purpose of each moment is God Himself. And when we do that, we will understand that we were never without Him after all.

Author : Linda Hopkins
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781635421149

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False Self by Linda Hopkins Pdf

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship The definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis.Both gifted analyst and generational bete noire, M. Masud R. Khan (1924–1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents turned detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Khan grew up in a world of privilege that was radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London. Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, Khan was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished individuals of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller, Michael Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more. Khan’s subsequent downfall, which is powerfully narrated in this biography, offers interesting insights not only into Khan’s psychic fragility but into the world of intrigues and deceptions pervasive in the psychoanalytic community of the time. In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to a complete copy of Khan’s unpublished Work Books, which are quoted extensively. Additionally, she conducted innumerable interviews with Khan’s peers, relatives, and analysands in order to provide an in-depth and balanced account of Masud Khan as a talented and deeply conflicted individual.

Author : Marilyn R. Schuster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479807239

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Passionate Communities by Marilyn R. Schuster Pdf

In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures. From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan mail she received-Schuster also draws on interviews, conversations, and personal encounters with the author to elicit the ways in which Rule interrogates the meanings and politics of sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and language, and the stakes of communities in individual claims on identity. Passionate Communities is a thorough, engaging, and long-overdue study of an important voice in lesbian literature and gay and lesbian politics.

Author : Mary Jane Kehily
Publisher : Sage Publications Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412930642

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Understanding Youth by Mary Jane Kehily Pdf

Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices addresses the changing context and nature of youth, encouraging readers to understand different conceptualizations of youth, issues of identity and the key social practices that give shape to young people's lives in the contemporary period.

Author : Ulf Leonhardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521497302

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Measuring the Quantum State of Light by Ulf Leonhardt Pdf

Appendix A: Semiclassical approximation

Author : Randall David Randall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9781474448697

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Conversational Enlightenment by Randall David Randall Pdf

The ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational EnlightenmentThe Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. The book narrates this triumph of conversational style and thought partly as a succession to the oratorical rhetoric that characterised the Renaissance and partly as the victory of the only mode of speech that recognised women as women, and not as imitation men. It also rewrites Jrgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.Key Features:The first book-length intellectual history of Enlightenment conversation in EnglishSynthesises a great deal of Enlightenment intellectual history within the frameworks of rhetoric and conversationPuts women's speech at the heart of the history of Enlightenment rhetoricFuses Habermas' historical-theoretical framework to the history of rhetoric, revising both

Author : Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1845195507

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Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia by Saskia Wieringa Pdf

"This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism.The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities"--

Author : Geoffrey Percival
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107497719

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Aristotle on Friendship by Geoffrey Percival Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this book contains an expanded English translation of Books 8 and 9 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These two books are devoted to a discussion on the nature of friendship and the role it played in Greek life, and Percival supplies an introduction with a background to the subject of ancient friendship prior to Aristotle's formulation. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient friendship or the philosophy of Aristotle.

Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015091130057

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A History of American Literature During the Colonial Time... by Moses Coit Tyler Pdf

Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000005956401

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A History of American Literature ...: 1676-1765 by Moses Coit Tyler Pdf

Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435020050589

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A History of American Literature During the Colonial Period, 1607-1765 by Moses Coit Tyler Pdf