Veiled Passions

Author : Tracy MacNish
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420107500

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Veiled Passions by Tracy MacNish Pdf

In this evocative, wildly romantic new novel set in Venice and London, Tracy MacNish follows one woman's journey from vengeance to extraordinary passion. . . Three years ago, Kieran Mullen was a carefree, confident beauty. One fateful night, everything changed, and she became solitary and aloof, reluctant to leave her London home even when her brother, Rogan, insists she accompany him on holiday to Venice. There, amid the wild revelries of Carnivale, Kieran is attacked by a masked villain and rescued by a charismatic stranger who offers the one thing that might free her from her haunting past: revenge. . . Matteo de Gama is a study in contradiction--a gambler and a philosopher, a reckless libertine and a most unlikely savior. When he pulls Kieran from a canal's watery depths and learns her secrets, he resolves to help her exact justice. But soon he has another mission in mind--to release the unmistakable fire buried beneath her icy beauty, and teach her the bliss that comes with trusting in her own desires, and in their fierce, abiding love. . . "A lushly written, richly detailed Georgian historical [that] pushes the boundaries of the genre with a story of love, revenge, jealousy, and secrets. . .compelling." --Booklist "This is neo old-school romance done well. . .this book was a treat to read. It was like drinking fine brandy after having had nothing but weak tea. MacNish has a strong and distinctive style." --All About Romance.com "Excellent. . .phenomenal." --The Romance Reader.com "There's nothing veiled about the emotional power and dark sensuality of MacNish's sequel to Veiled Promises. With strong characters playing out a plot that delves into the deepest parts of the human soul, this is a tale to keep you riveted." --Romantic Times "Another delectably intense and edgy tale of passion and peril, revenge and romance." --Booklist "Memorable characters and strong emotions take center stage in a powerful love story that digs deeply into character motivation." --Kathe Robin, Romantic Times

Author : Maureen Sabine
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780823252114

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Veiled Desires by Maureen Sabine Pdf

Ingrid Bergman’s engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary’s made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a “complete understanding” of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naïve? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires—a unique full-length, in-depth look at nuns in film—Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women’s Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Author : Maureen Sabine
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780823251650

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Veiled Desires by Maureen Sabine Pdf

Veiled Desires is the first full-length study of the film nun to trace the shifting features of her screen representation in twelve or more postwar films that span a sixty-year period. It not only situates them within the changing history of modern women religious but employs an inter-disciplinary perspective to argue that the film nun projects a complex and often vexed portrait of both traditional religious and modern female desires.

Author : Dorothea E. von Mücke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804718652

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Virtue and the Veil of Illusion by Dorothea E. von Mücke Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Tracy MacNish
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420140569

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Veiled Desires by Tracy MacNish Pdf

Tracy MacNish's deeply romantic sequel new novel reveals the untapped power of a woman's heart--and how fiercely she dares to protect it. . . Emeline's entire life is controlled by men. She's just been won in a wager by Jeffrey, the Duke of Eton, who keeps her under lock and key. And her cruel stepfather, Simon, wants nothing more than to dominate her entire future. What she wants is a man who'll set her free . . . and Rogan Mullen, heir to the dukedom, just may be the answer to her dreams . . . Rogan is more than eager to have Emeline in his care, but his urge to protect her grows into a yearning to possess her--body and soul. Surrendering completely to love, they cannot foresee that something very sinister threatens to destroy them, for Simon will stop at nothing to control his stepdaughter's fate . . . and only the most fervent passion can endure against such relentless odds . . . "A lushly written, richly detailed Georgian historical [that] pushes the boundaries of the genre."--Booklist

Author : Javād Nūrbakhsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sufi literature
ISBN : UOM:39015055576972

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Sufi Symbolism: Veils and Clothing, government, economics and commerce, medicine and healing by Javād Nūrbakhsh Pdf

Author : Douglas Northrop
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801488915

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Veiled Empire by Douglas Northrop Pdf

Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. He shows it as emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia.

Author : Ajume H. Wingo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521891280

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Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States by Ajume H. Wingo Pdf

In this exciting and challenging account of the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state, Ajume H. Wingo offers a completely new perspective from that provided by political theorists. Such theorists will typically argue for the basic values of liberal democracies by rationally justifying them. This book argues that it is non-rational factors - rhetoric, symbols, traditions - that more often than not provide the real source of motivation. Drawing from both historical and philosophical sources Ajume H. Wingo demonstrates that these 'veils', as he calls them, can play an essential role in a thriving, stable liberal democratic state. This theory of veil politics furnishes a conceptual framework within which we can reassess the role of aesthetics in politics, the nature and function of political myths in liberal democracies, and the value of civic education.

Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. Yeats Pdf

I At the end of the ’eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several mantelpieces of wood, copied from marble mantelpieces designed by the brothers Adam, a balcony and a little garden shadowed by a great horse-chestnut tree. Years before we had lived there, when the crooked ostentatiously picturesque streets with great trees casting great shadows had been a new enthusiasm: the Pre-Raphaelite movement at last affecting life. But now exaggerated criticism had taken the place of enthusiasm, the tiled roofs, the first in modern London, were said to leak, which they did not, and the drains to be bad, though that was no longer true; and I imagine that houses were cheap. I remember feeling disappointed because the co-operative stores, with their little seventeenth century panes, had lost the romance they had when I had passed them still unfinished on my way to school; and because the public house, called The Tabard after Chaucer’s Inn, was so plainly a common public house; and because the great sign of a trumpeter designed by Rooke, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, had been freshened by some inferior hand. The big red-brick church had never pleased me, and I was accustomed, when I saw the wooden balustrade that ran along the slanting edge of the roof where nobody ever walked or could walk, to remember the opinion of some architect friend of my father’s, that it had been put there to keep the birds from falling off. Still, however, it had some village characters and helped us to feel not wholly lost in the metropolis. I no longer went to church as a regular habit, but go I sometimes did, for one Sunday morning I saw these words painted on a board in the porch: “The congregation are requested to kneel during prayers; the kneelers are afterwards to be hung upon pegs provided for the purpose.” In front of every seat hung a little cushion and these cushions were called “kneelers.” Presently the joke ran through the community, where there were many artists who considered religion at best an unimportant accessory to good architecture and who disliked that particular church.

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786224545

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Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite Pdf

Christianity has often been suspicious of the human imagination, equating it with what is imaginary or merely made-up, while in the secular world the arts are often seen as little more than a source of entertainment. In Lifting the Veil, Malcolm Guite explores the vision from which all his writing springs – that there is a radiant reality at the heart of things which our dulled sight misses, and that the imagination is an aspect of the image of God in us that can awaken us to the presence and truth of God shimmering through all creation. He considers how Jesus appealed to the imagination in his use of stories, parables and everyday metaphors, often startling people into a fresh awareness of the kingdom of God, and explores how poets and artists such as Blake and Coleridge sought to remove the dull ‘film of familiarity’ that lies over our senses and reawaken a sense of wonder. Malcolm argues that renewing our artistic imaginations strengthens our moral and prophetic imaginations, making Lifting the Veil an inspiring manifesto for all who seek to embody the kingdom of God.

Author : Isaac Williams (Fellow of Trinity College Oxford.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000703412

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The Gospel Narrative of Our Lord's Passion Harmonized by Isaac Williams (Fellow of Trinity College Oxford.) Pdf

Author : Franciscus Costerus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590263242

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The passion of our Lord, meditations on the whole narrative, ed. by J. Hipwell [from the 1616 tr. by L. Worthington]. by Franciscus Costerus Pdf

Author : Michael P. Carroll
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801852900

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Veiled Threats by Michael P. Carroll Pdf

In his acclaimed Madonnas That Maim, Michael Carroll began his systematic examination of popular Catholicism in Italy. Now, in Veiled Threats, Carroll delves more deeply into the distinctive character of Italian popular Catholicism. He explores in detail the complex relationship between popular and official Catholicism in Italy from the fifteenth century to the present, bringing to light a considerable body of recent Italian scholarship on the Catholic experience in Italy never before translated into English. Carroll places special emphasis on miraculous images and the cults that form around them, on public performances such as self-flagellation during Holy Week processions, on devotion to souls in Purgatory, on the success of preaching orders in adapting to local beliefs, on the role of relics and the incorrupt bodies of saints, and on differing responses to the Reformation in northern and southern Italy. Throughout Veiled Threats, Carroll discovers in the beliefs and practices of popular Catholicism and implicit logic and vital creativity that reflect local experiences and needs far removed from those of official Catholicism.

Author : Piers Dudgeon
Publisher : Pilot productions
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781900064101

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Lifting The Veil by Piers Dudgeon Pdf

The real John Tavener revealed...' GRAMOPHONEWith generous access to Sir John himself, Piers Dudgeon lifts the veil on the secrets of how Tavener produced the most evocative and inspirational music of our times - pieces such as Song for Athene (played a

Author : Joseph Haydn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022751930

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The Passion. (The Seven Words of Our Saviour on the Cross.) ... The English Adaptation by ... H. C. Smith. [Vocal Score.] by Joseph Haydn Pdf