Transmutations Of Desire

Author : Qiancheng Li
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789882371224

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Transmutations of Desire by Qiancheng Li Pdf

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity--this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qing, whether in traditional or modern forms. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on critical readings of the texts that have shaped this trend, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious/philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. "The power of qing or strong emotion is a major theme in late imperial Chinese literature--some writers asserting that it can transcend even life itself. Qiancheng Li surveys a number of seventeenth-century philosophical, religious, and literary texts to elucidate the metaphysical aspects of emotional attachment and of sexual desire in particular. Through his broad and penetrating reading, Li demonstrates incontrovertibly how, to seventeenth-century writers, qing and religion were inextricably linked. To those writers, qing could bring enlightenment, and certainly Li’s study enlightens its readers to new levels of complexity in major literary works of that period. Transmutations of Desire sets a major new milestone in the study of traditional Chinese culture."--Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis

Author : Ruwan Meepagala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520334184

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The 7 Steps for Transmuting Desire Into Power by Ruwan Meepagala Pdf

What is Sex Transmutation?The word transmute means to change in form. Ancient alchemists used it as their verb for their pursuit of turning a base metal like lead into a precious metal like gold. Modern mystic, artists, and personal development enthusiasts commonly use it to describe inner change for turning our base qualities into precious ones.In 1937, Napoleon Hill coined the term "Sex Transmutation" in his seminal work Think and Grow Rich. The book was part of the "New Thought" movement in the early 1900s and about a century later was tied in with the "Law of Attraction" movement popularized by The Secret. Many of the book's success techniques such as affirmations, positive thinking, and habits have become common personal development knowledge. But the one chapter "The Mysteries of Sex Transmutation" seems to have been forgotten.Hill speaks of how sexual energy can energize, elevate mood, boost creativity, increase personal magnetism and attractiveness, and perhaps even help materialize one's desires. But there is very little on how to do any of it.There are probably many reasons as to why this is rarely taught:● It is not a linear process that can be controlled to produce predictable results● It does generate a lot of raw power, and power can destroy as well as create● Sex is generally tabooOne aspect that might be confusing is that Hill keeps referring to "Sex" in the abstract. Upon reading his words, one can see he really meant is "Sexual Energy," the instinctual drive that creates life.Energy = Feeling. Anytime someone refers to "energy" in a subjective sense, they are referring to something they feel. Feeling comes in different forms. Our body (reptilian brain) experiences energy/feeling as sensation. Our heart (limbic brain) experiences energy/feeling as emotion. Our mind (neocortex) experiences energy/feeling as intuition or creative ideas.Sexual Energy therefore, is the sum of sensations, emotions, and intuitions that feed our drive to create.A more colloquial word for "Sexual Energy" is Desire.

Author : H S Shivaprakash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000931563

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The Word in the World by H S Shivaprakash Pdf

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator. Edited by Kamalakar Bhat, this book brings together Prof Shivaprakash’s interventions in the realm of issues that are entwined with the continuities and discontinuities in the cultural negotiations of India. Distinctively, these are essays on subjects ranging from the nature and significance of medieval works of literature in India to issues arising out of developments in Indian aesthetics. The unfeigned magnitude of this work must be found among students and scholars, who will gain from it a perspective significantly different from the ones available in the prevailing academic discourses, thus indicating a way beyond poststructuralist/postmodernist frameworks. This is a book that will interest a wide variety of readers with its engaging insights and breadth of reference especially because it is written in a comprehensible style. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Author : Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192660176

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Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis by Paul S. Fiddes Pdf

This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of 'co-inherence' at the centre of their friendship. The idea of 'co-inherence' has long been recognized as an important contribution of Williams to theology, and had significant influence on the thought of Lewis. This account of the two writers' conviction that human persons 'inhere' or 'dwell' both in each other and in the triune God reveals many inter-relationships between their writings that would otherwise be missed. It also shows up profound differences between their world-views, and a gradual, though incomplete, convergence onto common ground. Exploring the idea of co-inherence throws light on the fictional worlds they created, as well as on their treatment (whether together or separately) of a wide range of theological and literary subjects: the Arthurian tradition, the poetry of William Blake and Thomas Traherne, the theology of Karl Barth, the nature of human and divine love, and the doctrine of the Trinity. This study draws for the first time on transcriptions of Williams' lectures from 1932 to 1939, tracing more clearly the development and use of the idea of co-inherence in his thought than has been possible before. Finally, an account of the use of the word 'co-inherence' in English-speaking theology suggests that the differences that existed between Lewis and Williams, especially on the place of analogy and participation in human experience of God, might be resolved by a theology of co-inherence in the Trinity.

Author : Alex DiFrancesco
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644210673

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Transmutation by Alex DiFrancesco Pdf

Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces. DiFrancesco's first novel All City (Seven Stories 2019) was praised by Publishers Weekly as a "loving, grieving warning [that] thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice." All City was one of BookRiot's "Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2019," Entropy Mag's "Best of 2019," and Largehearted Boy's "Favorite Novels of 2019." It was a finalist for the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.

Author : Tom Idema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351846998

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Stages of Transmutation by Tom Idema Pdf

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments. Narrating dramatic ecological events of human-to-nonhuman encounter, invasion, and transmutation, these novels allow the reader to understand the planet as an unstable stage for evolution and the human body as a home for bacteria and viruses. Idema argues that by drawing tension from biological theories of interaction and emergence (e.g. symbiogenesis, epigenetics), these works unsettle conventional relations among characters, technologies, story-worlds, and emplotment, refiguring the psychosocial work of the novel as always already biophysical. Problematizing a desire to compartmentalize and control life as the property of human subjects, these novels imagine life as an environmentally mediated, staged event that enlists human and nonhuman actors. Idema demonstrates how literary narratives of transmutation render biological lessons of environmental instability and ecological interdependence both meaningful and urgent—a vital task in a time of mass extinction, hyperpollution, and climate change. This volume is an important intervention for scholars of the environmental humanities, posthumanism, literature and science, and science and technology studies.

Author : Teresa Berger,Bryan D. Spinks
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814662342

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The Spirit in Worship-Worship in the Spirit by Teresa Berger,Bryan D. Spinks Pdf

The Spirit in Worship 'Worship in the Spirit represents an essential contribution, from the field of liturgical studies, to the vibrant retrieval of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in contemporary theology. The fifteen authors of this volume are scholars and practitioners from a wide range of traditions, including Pentecostal and charismatic communities as well as voices from outside the modern West. Together they articulate a richly diverse understanding of the presence of the Holy Spirit, grounded both in the practice of worship and in the scholarly reflection that attends to this practice of faith. Contributors include: N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, U.K. Paul F. Bradshaw, University of Notre Dame Teresa Berger, Yale University Maxwell E. Johnson, University of Notre Dame Teresa Berger is professor of liturgical studies at Yale's Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School. She holds doctorates in both dogmatic theology and liturgical studies. Her recent books include Women's Ways of Worship (1999), andFragments of Real Presence (2005). She is also coproducer, of the interactive CD-ROM Ocean Psalms. Bryan D. Spinks, DD (Dunelm, UK), is Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and is coeditor of the Scottish Journal of Theology. Spinks is a former consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Author : Linda C. Dowling
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801468735

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Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda C. Dowling Pdf

"Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature "Dowling's study is an exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis of the way Greek studies operated as a 'homosexual code' during the great age of English university reform.... Beautifully written and argued with subtlety, the book is indispensable for students of Victorian literature, culture, gender studies, and the nature of social change."—Choice "Hellenism and Homosexuality... presents a detailed and knowledgeable... account of such factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian dons as Jowett and Pater and the evolving evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also enhanced by [an] analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato's Republic."—Lambda Book Report

Author : Lawrence M. Principe
Publisher : Synthesis
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226700786

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The Transmutations of Chymistry by Lawrence M. Principe Pdf

A merchant of the marvelous -- A Batavian in Paris -- Essaying chymistry -- A new chymical light -- Chrysopoeia at the AcadeÌ1mie and the Palais Royal -- Chymistry in Homberg's later years : practices, promises, poisons, and prisons -- Homberg's legacy -- Epilogue: Homberg and the transmutations of chymistry at the AcadeÌ1mie.

Author : Adel Bahroun
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527591394

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Doom, Desire and the Polis in Eugene O'Neill's Drama by Adel Bahroun Pdf

This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire, the power of doom, and the variable configurations of the polis. It highlights that the modern American city, or polis, is the stage on which the antithetic categories of doom and desire are re-enacted in different undertones. The text notes that desire, doom, schizophrenia, and the archeology of the polis are reconceived by the playwright, while legacy, sexuality, lucre, and the volatility of the free flow of capital entrap the American subject in a maze of qualms and queries. Subjection and resistance give birth to schizorevolutionary subjects, seeking lines of flight. Indeed, as noted here, O’Neill’s plays portray their protagonists as desiring machines, trying to evade the modern closed circles of power, and various modes of becoming, to use Gilles Deleuze’s concept. O’Neill encounters Deleuze at the level of thoughts and sensations, anticipating postmodern plateaus for the human subject to grow into a rhizome.

Author : Morris Weitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0029349907

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Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Morris Weitz Pdf

From Simon & Schuster and edited by Morris Weitz, 20th Century Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition is a collection of readings in the history of philosophy. The full scope and impact of Western philosophy from the Presocratics to the important thinkers of the twentieth century are presented in this original paperback series.

Author : Master of Silent Whistle Studio
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780295747736

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Further Adventures on the Journey to the West by Master of Silent Whistle Studio Pdf

As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards. This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the author’s erudition and versatility.

Author : Gerald Doherty
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820497355

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Pathologies of Desire by Gerald Doherty Pdf

Discussions of the self in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traditionally have a generic or a generalized quality: the self is modernist or postmodernist, essential or processive, unified or fragmented, etc. Pathologies of Desire takes a different tack: it shifts the ground of discussion, locating the self in relation to particular dispositions or traits of the subject, Stephen Dedalus. More specifically, it foregrounds three pathological states (autoerotic, paranoia, and the shame/guilt syndrome) as primary modes of self-aggregation - the unique power of painful inner splits and divisions to precipitate self-awareness, and to make the self self-reflexive. As challenges to self-understanding, anxiety (autoeroticism), persecution (paranoia), and humiliation (shame/guilt) are prime catalysts of those multi-layered linguistic resources that fortify Stephen's self with the means of comprehending its own angst. The fact that each particular self dissolves to make way for another underscores its purely contingent and transitional quality - it functions as a defense against the singularity of the pain that it generates. Stephen's ultimate prospect of creating new future selves is thus contingent on his power to liberate himself from the old ones' oppressive conditioning.

Author : Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477320273

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My Shadow Is My Skin by Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery Pdf

The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a vast, global diaspora, with many Iranians establishing new lives in the United States. In the four decades since, the diaspora has expanded to include not only those who emigrated immediately after the revolution but also their American-born children, more recent immigrants, and people who married into Iranian families, all of whom carry their own stories of trauma, triumph, adversity, and belonging that reflect varied and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be Iranian or Iranian American. The essays in My Shadow Is My Skin are these stories. This collection brings together thirty-two authors, both established and emerging, whose writing captures the diversity of diasporic experiences. Reflecting on the Iranian American experience over the past forty years and shedding new light on themes of identity, duality, and alienation in twenty-first-century America, the authors present personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the news media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. My Shadow Is My Skin pulls back the curtain on a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.

Author : C. Louis Kervran,Michel Abehsera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biochemistry
ISBN : UOM:39076006453463

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Biological Transmutations, and Their Applications in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Ecology, Medicine, Nutrition, Agriculture, Geology by C. Louis Kervran,Michel Abehsera Pdf