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Author : Iris Murdoch,John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : Samuel French , Limited
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573015279
JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men
Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, European
ISBN : 9780231157209
Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Author : Frances Larson
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847088017
Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.
Author : Patricia Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041844
This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.
Author : Rachida Madani
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300176285
A brilliant retelling of the classic Arab tale of Scheherazade, set in the present day
Author : Robyn Schneider
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062217158
Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe. As Kirkus said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels." Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel—a heart-wrenching story about how difficult it is to play the part that people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985358877
Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992946050
Author : Chet Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cryosurgery
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044028392
Author : Rita Dolce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351657099
In the Ancient Near East, cutting off someone’s head was a unique act, not comparable to other types of mutilation, and therefore charged with a special symbolic and communicative significance. This book examines representations of decapitation in both images and texts, particularly in the context of war, from a trans-chronological perspective that aims to shed light on some of the conditions, relationships and meanings of this specific act. The severed head is a “coveted object” for the many individuals who interact with it and determine its fate, and the act itself appears to take on the hallmarks of a ritual. Drawing mainly on the evidence from Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia between the third and first millennia BC, and with reference to examples from prehistory to the Neo-Assyrian Period, this fascinating study will be of interest not only to art historians, but to anyone interested in the dynamics of war in the ancient world.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019109
In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man desperate for redemption.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004222281
The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. Contributors are Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Faulkner, Jay Paul Gates, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Dwayne Coleman, Mary Leech, Tina Boyer, Renée Ward, Andrew Fleck, Thomas Herron, Thea Cervone, and Asa Simon Mittman. Preface by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Author : Ian Armit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521877565
This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe.
Author : Alice Oswald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393285291
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world.” —Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, “give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer’s Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial—defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets—all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. FROM “VERTIGO” let me shuffle forward and tell you the two minute life of rain starting right now lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze
Author : Robert Olen Butler
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811856143
Pulitzer-winning Butler presents 62 stories, each exactly 240 words long, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. The characters are both real and imagined, including Medusa and Anne Boleyn.