The Muses Among Us

Author : Kim Stafford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780820340364

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The Muses Among Us by Kim Stafford Pdf

The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side is our story, our poem, our song. On this side are the resonant hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions from which our writing will emerge. Guiding us from such glimmerings through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of writers. Informing The Muses Among Us are Stafford's own convictions about writing—principles to which he returns again and again. We must, Stafford says, honor the fragments, utterances, and half-discovered truths voiced around us, for their speakers are the prophets to whom writers are scribes. Such filaments of wisdom, either by themselves or alloyed with others, give rise to our poems, stories, and essays. In addition, as Stafford writes, "all pleasure in writing begins with a sense of abundance—rich knowledge and boundless curiosity." By recommending ways for students to seek beyond the self for material, Stafford demystifies the process of writing and claims for it a Whitmanesque quality of participation and community.

Author : John D. Evans, EdD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781532002922

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Musology 101: Muses Are Among Us by John D. Evans, EdD Pdf

Inspiration is the positive energy that comes from positive people, places, things, and ideasincluding yourself, your experiences, and your relationships with family, friends, and support systems. It is vital for overcoming the lethargy and depression that affect human beings all over the world. Musology 101: Muses Are among Us seeks to educate muses all over the globe about the transforming power of inspiration, as well as its benefits and implications for numerous fields. It presents three approaches to understanding inspiration: poetic, philosophical, and scholarly. Part 1 features original verse intended for readers of all ages. Part 2 focuses on arguments and logic statements designed to reveal the philosophy of inspiration, while part 3 consists of author John D. Evanss doctoral dissertation, a qualitative study of the impact and importance of inspiration. It also introduces the science of inspiration, which Evans calls musology. Through these examinations, we can come to understand that muses are among usthat we are muses. This three-part self-help resource considers the topic of inspiration from various perspectives, addressing it both as a positive construct and essential phenomenon.

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479832835

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Clio Among the Muses by Peter Charles Hoffer Pdf

History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces history’s complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social sciences, literature, biography, policy studies, and law. As in ancient days, when Clio was preeminent among the other eight muses, so today, the author argues that history can and should claim pride of place in the study of past human action and thought. Intimate and irreverent at times, Clio among the Muses synthesizes a remarkable array of information. Clear and concise in its review of the companionship between history and its coordinate disciplines, fair-minded in its assessment of the contributions of history to other disciplines and these disciplines' contributions to history, Clio among the Muses will capture the attention of everyone who cares about the study of history. For as the author demonstrates, the study of history is something unique, ennobling, and necessary. One can live without religion, philosophy and the rest. One cannot exist without history. Rigorously documented throughout, the book offers a unique perspective on the craft of history.

Author : Pat Cleveland,Lorraine Glennon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501108228

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Walking with the Muses by Pat Cleveland,Lorraine Glennon Pdf

New York in the sixties and seventies was glamorous and gritty at the same time, a place where people like Warhol, Avedon, and Halston as well their muses came to pursue their wildest ambitions, and when the well began to run dry they darted off to Paris. Though born on the very fringes of this world, Patricia Cleveland, through a combination of luck, incandescent beauty, and enviable style, soon found herself in the centre of all that was creative, bohemian, and elegant. A "walking girl," a runway fashion model whose inimitable style still turns heads on the runways of New York, Paris, Milan, and Tokyo, Cleveland was in high demand. Ranging from the streets of New York to the jet-set beaches of Mexico, from the designer retailers of Paris to the offices of Diana Vreeland, here is Cleveland's larger-than-life story. One minute she's in a Harlem tenement making her own clothes and dreaming of something bigger, the next she's about to walk Halston's show alongside fellow model Anjelica Huston. One minute she's partying with Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson, the next she's sharing the dance floor with Warhol. One moment she's idolizing the silver screen sensation Warren Beatty, years later, she's deciding whether to resist his considerable amorous charms. In New York, she struggles to secure her first cover of a major magazine. In Paris, she's the toast of the town. A page-turning memoir of a life well lived, Walking with the Muses is a book you won't soon forget.

Author : Joseph M. Hassett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614897

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W.B. Yeats and the Muses by Joseph M. Hassett Pdf

W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of W.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite idea of woman as 'romantic and mysterious, still the priestess of her shrine', Yeats found his Muses in living women. His extraordinarily long and fruitful poetic career was fuelled by passionate relationships with women to and about whom he wrote some of his most compelling poetry. The book summarizes the different Muse traditions that were congenial to Yeats and shows how his perception of these women as Muses underlies his poetry. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to explore the creative process and interpret the poems. Because Yeats believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, but the speech of a man,' exploring the relationship between poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry, illuminates the process of its creation, and unlocks the 'second beauty' to which Yeats referred when he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, when the circumstances of their origin is known, gain a second a beauty, passing as it were out of literature and becoming life.' As life emerges from the literature, the Muses are shown to be vibrant, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the idea of the Muse as a passive stereotype and take their proper place as begetters of timeless poetry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1654
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021282384

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Witts Recreations. Selected from the finest Fancies of Moderne Muses. With a Thousand out Landish Proverbs (selected by Mr. G eorge H erbert ). by Anonim Pdf

Author : sir John Mennes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555090010

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Facetiae. Musarum deliciæ: or, The muses recreation, by sr. J.M. and Ja: S. And Wit restor'd, in severall select poems [by sir J. Mennes]. Also Wits recreations by sir John Mennes Pdf

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316337564

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Truevine by Beth Macy Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Author : Filippomaria Pontani,Stefan Weise
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110652758

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The Hellenizing Muse by Filippomaria Pontani,Stefan Weise Pdf

Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire. However, after the Byzantine refugees restored the knowledge of Ancient Greek in the west during the early humanistic period (15th century), Italian scholars (and later their French, German, Spanish colleagues) started to use Greek, a purely literary language that no one spoke, for their own texts and poems. This habit persisted with various ups and downs throughout the centuries, according to the development of Greek studies in each country. The aim of this anthology - the first one of this kind - is to give a selective overview of this kind of humanistic poetry in Ancient Greek, embracing all major regions of Europe and trying to concentrate on remarkable pieces of important poets. The ultimate goal of the book is to shed light on an important and so far mostly neglected aspect of the European heritage.

Author : Carol Smallwood,,Colleen S. Harris,Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488711

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Women on Poetry by Carol Smallwood,,Colleen S. Harris,Cynthia Brackett-Vincent Pdf

In these 59 essays, published female poets share a wealth of practical advice and inspiration. Aimed at students and aspiring and experienced poets alike, the essays address such topics as the women's collective writing experience, tips on teaching in numerous contexts, the publishing process, and essential wisdom to aid the poet in her chosen vocation.

Author : Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199240043

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Cultivating the Muse by Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler Pdf

Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vitalforms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fatesand explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Antonia Angress
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593496459

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Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress Pdf

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light.”—Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Glamour, PopSugar, Debutiful It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisa’s unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors. Gradually, Louisa and Karina are drawn into an intense sensual and artistic relationship, one that forces them to confront their deepest desires and fears. But Karina also can’t shake her fascination with Preston Utley, a senior and anti-capitalist Internet provocateur, who is publicly feuding with visiting professor and political painter Robert Berger—a once-controversial figurehead seeking to regain relevance. When Preston concocts an explosive hoax, the fates of all four artists are upended as each is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat New York art world. Now all must struggle to find new identities in art, in society, and among each other. In the process, they must find either their most authentic terms of life—of success, failure, and joy—or risk losing themselves altogether. With a canny, critical eye, Sirens & Muses overturns notions of class, money, art, youth, and a generation’s fight to own their future.

Author : David Hutchens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118974124

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Circle of the 9 Muses by David Hutchens Pdf

The action-based guide to powerful, influential organizationalstorytelling Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of theworld's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers tohelp you find, tell, and draw value from your organizationalstories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded withfun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, andfacilitated processes that require no special training orexpertise. You'll discover your organization's hidden narrativeassets, use different templates and frameworks to tell the storiesof your past, present, and future and then draw team members intorich meaning-making dialogue that translates into action. Theseactivities can be exercised in endless permutations, and expertadvice steers you toward the right activity for a specific purpose,including managing change, setting strategy, onboarding, definingthe brand, engaging supporters or customers, merging cultures,building trust, and much more. Organizational storytelling is a powerful managerial tool and anessential change management technique. This is about your influenceas a leader. Knowing the right story to tell and how to deliver iteffectively gives you and your organization enormous influence, andhelps connect employees to strategy by providing understanding,belief, and motivation in their personal contribution. This book isthe ultimate field guide to becoming an influential storyteller,with concrete, actionable guidance toward all the storytellingfundamentals. Identify your organization's "narrative assets" Craft an elegant, well-constructed organizational story Capture, bank, and share stories with extraordinaryengagement Facilitate a dialogue to draw out meaning and inducechange The growing interest surrounding organizational storytelling hasmany change agents focused on "trying to tell better stories," butgoals are useless without a plan of action. Circle of the 9Muses helps you weave narrative wisdom into organizationaldevelopment activities, engaging employees and driving change.

Author : J. J. Chambliss
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791498705

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Educational Theory as Theory of Conduct by J. J. Chambliss Pdf

Chambliss presents clearly the position that educational theory is a theory of conduct rather than an applied science. It is theory of conduct, not about conduct. He reveals the richness of this idea and examines the various ways it has been discussed in the works of Aristotle, Rousseau, Dewey, and others. He also demonstrates its timeliness for today's educators by presenting it as an antidote to the current widespread tendency of trying to quantify conduct, to treat education as a thing to be measured.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681951942

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

One Hundred Tales, One Great Masterpiece “To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ” - Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron The Black Death is upon Europe and the beautiful city of Florence. How can you escape it one must wonder? The 14th-century Italian writer came up with a solution in his masterpiece, The Decameron: story-telling. He gathered seven young women and three young men in a remote villa outside the city with one sole purpose: to tell 100 unique stories about humanity’s great fortunes and misfortunes. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes