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Ambiguous Desires!

Author : Loverboy
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491807342
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Desires! written by Loverboy and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous Desires is more than surface poetry. Its meanings are meant to inspire the brain to react to education. EROGENOUS MOON EROGENOUS MOON, FIRMAMENT INDUCED INTRICATE PLEASURES. SPONTANEOUS IMPULSES BEYOND ALL MEASURE; AROUSED BY NATURE. HAR THE THUNDER ROAR!! FALL SECRET DESIRES, WE DO ADORE;' COME TO ME' SURRENDER YOUR WILL! FILL MY POWER! AS TIME STANDS STILL! FEEL THE PASSION, FEAR THE PAIN. HEAR MY HEARTBEAT, SOUNDS THE SAME. FALL FROM THE SKY, O' FULL MOON, AND LAY DOWN BESIDE ME. BRIDE AND GROOM.

Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438423667
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon written by Allen S. Weiss and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological premises that the ideal seldom coincides with the empirical, and that identification is always partial, fragmented, heterogeneous, mixed, such that total identification would be tantamount to delirium. The imagination is but the ephemera of partial objects torn from culture and history, the transgression by fragmentation of a contemporary cosmos all too unified and all too controlled to admit the most singular, and idiosyncratic, phantasms of our desires. Thus we must posit an aesthetics where theory and interpretation are juxtaposed to, or traced above, the effects of the passions, where a muscular contraction or spasm is worth as much as a concept. It is here, at the fragile limit between iconophilia and iconoclasm, that the ironies and exigencies of poetic justice reside.

Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Author : Janka Kaščáková
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443827495
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous written by Janka Kaščáková and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the essential features of the postmodern age: how it can be defined as opposed to what it means or is, where it can be found, to what purposes it can be put, including questions of whether it is a positive or negative factor. But this, of course, is not a new phenomenon. Writers have always depended on equivocation, multiplicity of meaning, uncertainty of meaning—deliberate mystification one might say. Language itself is the base of ambiguity not only in literature but in everyday public discourse. Thus the papers in the volume should appeal not only to scholars working in the fields of modern or postmodern literature, but those who see the importance of ambiguity in the earlier texts, and perhaps their influences in later writing. Finally the essays included here not only provide specific analyses and proposed solutions for specific works or authors they also open the reader to other appearances of ambiguity, often not simply in literature or critical theory, but in the kinds of social issues the literary works deals with.

Ambiguous Borderlands

Author : Erik Mortenson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334321
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Borderlands written by Erik Mortenson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson argues that shadow imagery in 1950s and 1960s American culture not only reflected the anxiety and ambiguity of the times but also offered an imaginative space for artists to challenge the binary rhetoric associated with the Cold War. From comics to movies, Beats to bombs, Ambiguous Borderlands provides a novel understanding of the Cold War cultural context through its analysis of the image of the shadow in midcentury media. Its interdisciplinary approach, ambitious subject matter, and diverse theoretical framing make it essential reading for anyone interested in American literary and popular culture during the midtwentieth century.

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

Author : Allan Hazlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198889844
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism written by Allan Hazlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that nothing really matters. However, if someone thinks that nothing matters--if they are a "nihilist about value"--then it seems that it is irrational for them to care about anything. It seems that nihilism about value mandates total indifference. This is the "problem of nihilism" Allan Hazlett addresses in The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism. Hazlett argues that the problem of nihilism arises because desire--and thus caring--is a species of evaluation that admits of irrationality. This contradicts the influential Humean view that desire does not admit of irrationality, which has a ready solution to the problem of nihilism: since desire does not admit of irrationality, it cannot be irrational to care about something that you believe does not matter. However, following G.E. Anscombe, Hazlett argues that desire has the same relationship to goodness as belief has to truth: just as truth is the accuracy condition for belief, goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This reveals desire as an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry, in the same way that belief is an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry. Desires can amount to knowledge (in the same way that beliefs can amount to knowledge) and, crucially for the problem of nihilism, desire admits of irrationality (in the same way that belief admits of irrationality). Nevertheless, although it is obviously irrational to believe something that you believe is not true, Hazlett argues that it is not irrational to desire something you believe is not good, despite the fact that goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This provides a solution to the problem of nihilism, and shows that nihilism about value can coherently be combined with the anti-Humean view that desire is a species of evaluation.

Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421567
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon written by Allen S. Weiss and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological premises that the ideal seldom coincides with the empirical, and that identification is always partial, fragmented, heterogeneous, mixed, such that total identification would be tantamount to delirium. The imagination is but the ephemera of partial objects torn from culture and history, the transgression by fragmentation of a contemporary cosmos all too unified and all too controlled to admit the most singular, and idiosyncratic, phantasms of our desires. Thus we must posit an aesthetics where theory and interpretation are juxtaposed to, or traced above, the effects of the passions, where a muscular contraction or spasm is worth as much as a concept. It is here, at the fragile limit between iconophilia and iconoclasm, that the ironies and exigencies of poetic justice reside.

Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421550
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon written by Allen S. Weiss and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological premises that the ideal seldom coincides with the empirical, and that identification is always partial, fragmented, heterogeneous, mixed, such that total identification would be tantamount to delirium. The imagination is but the ephemera of partial objects torn from culture and history, the transgression by fragmentation of a contemporary cosmos all too unified and all too controlled to admit the most singular, and idiosyncratic, phantasms of our desires. Thus we must posit an aesthetics where theory and interpretation are juxtaposed to, or traced above, the effects of the passions, where a muscular contraction or spasm is worth as much as a concept. It is here, at the fragile limit between iconophilia and iconoclasm, that the ironies and exigencies of poetic justice reside.

Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

Author : Dr Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472438132
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture written by Dr Gevork Hartoonian and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect’s role in the design and production processes of architecture. Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Peggy Deamer, Bernard Tschumi, Donald Kunze and Marco Biraghi, this volume investigates and critically addresses various dimensions of the present crisis of architecture.

Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317516133
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals) written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Form as Compensation for Life

Author : Oddvar Holmesland
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131478
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Form as Compensation for Life written by Oddvar Holmesland and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stylistic study of Virgina Woolf's fiction. Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of `double reflexiveness': first, the reader's interaction with Woolf's words and what they describe, and second, the interaction of these words with the world Woolf perceivedand attempted to represent. Oddvar Holmesland takes this paradox and shows that it is not the invention of recent critics but something of which Woolf herself is well aware. In a number of analyses of Woolf's major works - MrsDalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves - he explores the ambiguity that Woolf's reader must work through in order to reach the insights and rewards that her fiction offers. Professor ODDVAR HOLMESLAND is Professor of English at the University of Tromso, Norway.

Spaces of Belonging

Author : Elizabeth H. Jones
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401205000
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Belonging written by Elizabeth H. Jones and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate.The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the ‘postmodern maps’ that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today.Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing.

Ambiguous Transitions

Author : Jill Massino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335995
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Transitions written by Jill Massino and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

Ambiguous Discourse

Author : Kathy Mezei
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866938
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Discourse written by Kathy Mezei and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology--the combination of feminist theory with the study of the structures that underpin all narratives. Until recently, narratology has resisted the advances of feminism in part, as some contributors argue, because theory has replicated past assumptions of male authority and point of view in narrative. Feminist narratology, however, contextualizes the cultural constructions of gender within its study of narrative strategies. Nine of these essays are original, and three have been revised for publication in this volume. The contributors are Melba Cuddy-Keane, Denise Delorey, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Stanford Friedman, Janet Giltrow, Linda Hutcheon, Susan S. Lanser, Alison Lee, Patricia Matson, Kathy Mezei, Christine Roulston, and Robyn Warhol.

Comfort

Author : Ilia Kavaja
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460276477
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Comfort written by Ilia Kavaja and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever before in human history, the dependency for comfort along with the indispensable necessity of moral, emotional and spiritual encouragement is in conflict with the iniquitous disposition of this present day society. The spirit of this world continues to resist and debilitate the divinely instilled organic appetite that is part of human original nature, personality and character. Even though the surrounding world tries to convince us as if we are unlovable, worthless and unforgivable, this volume will inspire our sensibleness so as to persist with the needed confidence, for finding or seeing the respectable extent of our own worth on the supreme pedestal of God’s given image and moral strength. We are exquisitely designed and divinely designated to remain everlastingly precious in love, goodness and reassurance. Even though our own heart tends to discourage and condemn us, this comforting volume will empower our vision to discern the true meaning and purpose of human existence, by authenticating the greatness of our value with eternity in view. The structure of human nature, character and personality would not be reliable pertaining to fundamental moral strength, lasting comfort and true happiness, unless exist a supreme purpose to appreciate the reason of holding on to such an objective. In actual fact, without this perpetual purpose along with love, faith and hope that galvanize our mind, heart and soul, there would not dwell the needed optimism for the author to initiate such painstaking descriptive work with the view to put in paper the proceeding five volumes of Authenticity, Comfort, Love, Perception and Dedication.

Ambiguity and Logic

Author : Frederic Schick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521531719
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Logic written by Frederic Schick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Author : Melissa E. Sanchez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474256694
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Queer Theory written by Melissa E. Sanchez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field's historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.

Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens

Author : Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192581384
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens written by Celia E. Deane-Drummond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality broadly is inadequate. Instead, different aspects need to be teased apart. It is not sufficient to assume that different virtues are bolted onto a vicious animality, red in tooth and claw. Nature and culture have interlaced histories. By weaving in evolutionary theories and debates on the evolution of compassion, justice and wisdom, it showa a richer account of who we are as moral agents. The second driving question concerns our relationships with animals. Deane-Drummond argues for a complex community-based multispecies approach. Hence, rather than extending rights, a more radical approach is a holistic multispecies framework for moral action. This need not weaken individual responsibility. She intends not to develop a manual of practice, but rather to build towards an alternative philosophically informed approach to theological ethics, including animal ethics. The theological thread weaving through this account is wisdom. Wisdom has many different levels, and in the broadest sense is connected with the flow of life understood in its interconnectedness and sociality. It is profoundly theological and practical. In naming the project the evolution of wisdom Deane-Drummond makes a statement about where wisdom may have come from and its future orientation. But justice, compassion and conscience are not far behind, especially in so far as they are relevant to both individual decision-making and institutions.