Sublime Surrender

Author : Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781501717741

Get Book

Sublime Surrender by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg Pdf

When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body, he defined a recurring motif of the second half of the nineteenth century, according to Suzanne R. Stewart. Directing her attention to the voice of the shriveled male body at beauty's feet, she investigates the discourse by and about men that took hold in the German-speaking world between 1870 and 1940 and that articulated masculinity as and through its own marginalization. Male masochism, she suggests, was a rhetorical strategy through which men asserted their cultural and political authority paradoxically by embracing the notion that they were (and always had been) wounded and suffering. Stewart demonstrates and develops her contentions through close readings of the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Richard Wagner, and Sigmund Freud, in each case showing that the very act through which men sacrificed themselves to women comprised the essence of the new male subject "deeply penetrated by relations of political and sexual power." Masochistic scenarios, whether in literature, music, the visual arts, or medicalized diagnoses of the fin-de-siècle malaise, stage the male as one who submits, as Stewart explains, "to an aestheticized and eroticized gaze and voice."

Author : Dr Christopher Morris
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409461791

Get Book

Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema by Dr Christopher Morris Pdf

Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not least music. This operatic reflexivity, in which the very question of music's identity is repeatedly restaged, invites consideration of musical encounters with mountains in other genres, and Morris shows how these issues resonate in Strauss's Alpine Symphony and in the Bergfilm (mountain film). By using music and the ideology of mountains to illuminate aspects of each other, Morris makes an original and valuable contribution to the critical study of modernism.

Author : Peter Heymans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415507301

Get Book

Animality in British Romanticism by Peter Heymans Pdf

This book shows how the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality interacted with their moral, scientific and religious ideas. It argues that the discourses of the sublime, beautiful and ugly helped the Romantics represent their changing relationship with the animal world and understand the increasingly precarious state of their own humanity.

Author : Thinley Norbu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570627781

Get Book

White Sail by Thinley Norbu Pdf

Buddhism teaches that enlightenment is our natural state; the problem is that we do not recognize this state, owing to the mind's confusion about its true nature. Thinley Norbu presents the Buddhist view in a way meant to clear up misconceptions and awaken the reader's innate wisdom. Thinley Norbu is a distinguished teacher of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the author of The Small Golden Key and Magic Dance.

Author : M. Koehler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137313607

Get Book

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century by M. Koehler Pdf

By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.

Author : Quan Tran
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644133309

Get Book

Imitation of Mary by Quan Tran Pdf

Our Lord is constantly pouring out graces upon mankind, yet only a few — those closest to His heart — know how to receive them. Sadly, countless graces are left unclaimed (likely many by you!) and are thus never allowed to further God's will on earth. How different our lives would be if we accessed God's grace more intentionally! Thankfully, God in His compassion gave us a perfect model for disposing ourselves to His graces and responding to them: the Blessed Virgin Mary. In The Imitation of Mary, Fr. Quan Tran shows you how to imitate the twelve essential qualities of Mary in order to unleash a torrent of graces in your life. He explains that, like any gift, grace must be received, opened, and used. As you learn how, you'll begin to acquire the temperaments, dispositions, and qualities that are most pleasing to God — and you'll serve as a channel of God's grace for others. You'll also learn:

Author : Roderick W Cole
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490871974

Get Book

Walking in Kingdom Grace by Roderick W Cole Pdf

Walking in Kingdom Grace is a thoroughly biblical exploration of the term the kingdom of God. Tracing the concept of the kingdom of God from pre-creation to the future eternal state, you will clearly understand Gods intention for humankind as never before. You will discover such things as: What is the kingdom of God? How does it relate to your eternal purpose in God? How does it relate to the New Covenant? How does it relate to the church? Exactly how does Christ build His church? If Jesus was God, why did He need to be anointed by the Holy Spirit? What does the anointing upon Jesus have to do with believers today? These and many more questions are answered from the Scripture. Complex questions are unraveled and explained in an illuminating way, which will provide many Aha! moments as complicated subjects become crystal clear. One reader commented, Pull up a comfortable chair, clear your schedule, and turn your cell phone off because you are not going to want to put this book down once you get started! Len Harper, Pastor

Author : Daniel Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134672721

Get Book

Traumatic Narcissism by Daniel Shaw Pdf

In this volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of narcissism in interpersonal relations, Shaw describes the relational system of what he terms the 'traumatizing narcissist' as a system of subjugation – the objectification of one person in a relationship as the means of enforcing the dominance of the subjectivity of the other. Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession. Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational Psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.

Author : Max Shulman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781609388454

Get Book

The American Pipe Dream by Max Shulman Pdf

"The American Pipe Dream examines the representational history of addiction on the U.S. stage from 1890 to the start of the nation's involvement in the second World War in 1941. Through intensive archival work, textual and performance analysis, and by considering related literary, legislative, and medical histories, this work argues that performance was essential in the creation of the drug addict in the U.S. cultural imagination. Though little attention has been paid to the figure of the stage-addict, this conventionalized figure was a major presence in U.S. popular entertainment through the Progressive Era into the Roaring Twenties, and through the Great Depression. The aim of this study is to trace this complex history, establish the stage-addict's place in U.S. theatre studies, and, by doing so, provide a new lens for examining the history of drug addiction and drug use in the U.S"--

Author : Phillip Barrish
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210109

Get Book

White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism by Phillip Barrish Pdf

White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism brings literary works from the turn of the last century face to face with some of the dilemmas and paradoxes that currently define white liberal identity in the United States. Phillip Barrish develops fresh analytic and pedagogical tools for probing contemporary white liberalism, while also offering new critical insights and classroom approaches to American literary realism. New ground is broken by using bold close analysis of works by canonical American realist writers such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin. These contexts include an affirmative-action court case, the liberal arts classroom, and the "war on drugs," as well as current debates about the United States' role on the international scene. Invoking a methodology that he calls "critical presentism," Barrish's book offers a fresh response to that perennial classroom question, often posed most forcefully by students committed to progressive political agendas: why devote so much time and effort to detailed analyses of canonical American literature? This book makes specific contributions not only to American literary and cultural studies, but also to critical race theory, masculinity studies, and critical pedagogy. -- from back cover.

Author : Rob Preece
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559393331

Get Book

The Courage to Feel by Rob Preece Pdf

When circumstances are challenging how do we react? This book offers methods to help us develop greater inner strength and openness to life by changing the habit of what Rob Preece calls "self-preoccupation"—the tendency to act from a narrow perspective dominated by insecurity and isolation. When we learn to look outside this mentality and truly cherish others as well as ourselves, we create a happier, relaxed mind and more fulfilling relationships, as well as realizing our life's purpose in a meaningful way. A long-time Buddhist practitioner and psychotherapist, Preece shares traditional meditations and practices for awakening the mind and heart, including tonglen, but he also offers a Jungian perspective on these and his own sense—cultivated during many years experience—of the ways in which Westerners may need to re-see these practices to benefit most from them. Preece's insightful fusion of East and West will help readers tap inner resources of compassion and integrity in order to flourish in times of uncertainty, and ultimately generate the altruistic aspiration to realize the awakened mind for the benefit of all living beings. Preece offers meditation practices at the end of many chapters to help the reader digest and integrate the book's information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UIUC:30112109810561

Get Book

Ethical Addresses by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren John Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526631312

Get Book

At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph Pdf

SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S FICTION YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'AN ESSENTIAL READ' NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE, STYLIST, SHEERLUXE AND FOYLES 'A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent' OLIVIA LAING 'Pure delight ... A queer romance novel like no other' TATLER It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th – the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims – and culminate in terrible betrayal. At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York – a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. 'Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit, glamour, and style! I haven't read a book that so powerfully evokes what it's like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things' TORREY PETERS, author of Detransition, Baby 'Screamingly funny, scandalously hot, opulent, deep - a devastating torch song of obsession and excess' JEREMY ATHERTON LIN, author of Gay Bar 'Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh, funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren' TRAVIS ALABANZA 'The struggle to find ones place in the world as an artist and lover, creating self and culture as you go along - At Certain Points We Touch captures this fleeting, dazzling moment with glamour and heart' MICHELLE TEA

Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Alabama
ISBN : UCAL:B4102283

Get Book

At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta Jane Evans Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Handford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112038155211

Get Book

Illustrated Home Book of Poetry and Song by Thomas W. Handford Pdf