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Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls.

Author : Chantal Kwast-Greff
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209286
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls. written by Chantal Kwast-Greff and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos. Pain. Self-mutilation. Women starve themselves. They burn or slash their own flesh or their babies’ throats, and slam their newborns against walls. Their bodies are the canvases on which the suffering of the soul carves itself with knife and razor. In Australian fiction written by women between 1984 and 1994, female characters inscribe their inner chaos on their bodies to exert whatever power they have over themselves. Their self-inflicted pain is both reaction and language, the bodily sign not only of their enfeeblement but also to a certain extent of their empowerment, of themselves and their world. The texts considered in this book – chiefly by Margaret Coombs, Kate Grenville, Fiona Place, Penelope Rowe, Leone Sperling, and Amy Witting – function as both defiance and ac¬ceptance of prevailing discourses of femininity and patriarchy, between submission and a possible future. The narratives of anorexia, bulimia, fatness, self-mutilation, incest, and murder shock the reader into an understanding of deeper meanings of body and soul, and prompt a tentative interpretation of fiction in relation to the world of ‘real’ women and men in contemporary (white) Australia. This is affective literature with the reader in voyeuristic complicity. Holding up the mirror of fiction, the women writers act perforce as a social lever, their narratives as Bildungsromane. But there is a risk, that of reinforcing stereotypes and codes of conduct which, supposedly long gone, still represent women as victims. Why are the female characters (self-)destroyers and victims? Why are they not heroes, saviours or conquerors? If women read about women / themselves and feel pity for the Other they read about, they will also feel pity for themselves: there is little happiness in being a woman. But infanticide and distorting the body are problem-solving behaviours. In truth, the bodies of the female characters bear the marks and scars of the history of their mothers and the history of their grandmothers – indeed, that of their own: the history of survivors.

Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls

Author : Chantal Kwast-Greff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Towards a Transcultural Future

Author : Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042017368
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Transcultural Future written by Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents: TOPICS TREATED Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to 'void'; women's overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England. WRITERS DISCUSSED Lalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred Wah CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY Ken Arvidson; Thomas Bruckner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppe; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav Ku nir; Chantal Kwast-Greff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent O'Sullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stephanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Ronning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schroder; Joseph Swann; Andre Viola; Christine Vogt-William; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold. CREATIVE WRITING BY Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol THE EDITORS: Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen; Benedicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liege.

Gender and Action Films 1980-2000

Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801175063
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.

Rethinking the Victim

Author : Anne Brewster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351606905
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Victim written by Anne Brewster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women’s agencies. In doing so, it provides a theoretical context for the increasing number of contemporary literary works by Australian women writers that directly address gendered violence, an issue that has taken on urgent social and political currency. By analysing Australian women’s literary representations of gendered violence, this book rethinks victimhood and agency, particularly from a feminist perspective. One of its major innovations is that it examines mainstream Australian women’s writing alongside that of Indigenous and minoritised women. In doing so it provides insights into the interconnectedness of Australia’s diverse settler, Indigenous and diasporic histories in chapters that examine intimate partner violence, violence against Indigenous women and girls, family violence and violence against children, and the war and political violence.

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009093207
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel written by David Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition

Author : Liam D. Murphy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442636874
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition written by Liam D. Murphy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this bestselling reader builds a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory, with a sharpened focus on gender and anthropology, and the anthropology of new media and technology. Short introductions and key terms accompany every reading, and light annotations have been added to aid students in reading original articles. Used on its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition, this anthology offers a flexible and unrivalled introduction to anthropological theory that reflects not only the history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.

The Distortion of Orthodox Truth in Russian Theological Thought

Author : St. Seraphim (Sobolev), Sofia wonderworker
Publisher : Vladimir Djambov
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distortion of Orthodox Truth in Russian Theological Thought written by St. Seraphim (Sobolev), Sofia wonderworker and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Regarding the article by Metr. Antony (Khrapovitsky) “The Dogma of Atonement” We have divided the entire contents of this study into three parts. In the first of these, we talk about the denial by Metr. Antony of the legal view of the atonement and cite the revealed and patristic evidence to refute this denial. The subject of the second part is the presentation of the doctrine of Metr. Antony about the atonement of us with the compassionate love of Christ, His spiritual Gethsemane torment. This teaching is also overturned by the scriptures and the works of the Holy Fathers of the Church. Finally, in order to maximally capture the hearts of the readers of our book of the Orthodox doctrine of the atonement, we give a brief summary of it on the basis of Divine Revelation, patristic teachings, and liturgical books, which is the third part of this study.

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

Author : Deepak Chopra
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407061178
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul written by Deepak Chopra and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering work Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Having revealed the connection between our health and our thoughts, Dr Chopra shows us how to create a whole new self - the self we want to be - in this revolutionary sequel. Dr Chopra explains how the body is a reflection of the mind, 'a symbol in flesh and blood of everything you think and feel'. From early childhood each one of us has invented our bodies and our personalities through our beliefs, conditioning and responses to everyday stress. But we have mostly done this unconsciously, which is why we may now feel unfulfilled. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul will help us to reconnect with our ideal sense of self, guiding us one step at a time through a remarkable process of renewal and discovery. Chopra invites us all to live from the soul, to satisfy our deepest desires in a life rich with joy and meaning. 'You are inventing your body in every moment of life,' he reasons. 'Why not take control and reinvent it from the highest level?'

From Florence to the Heavenly City

Author : ClaireE. Honess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351566318
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book From Florence to the Heavenly City written by ClaireE. Honess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns. Consequently, the symbolic and poetic values which Dante attaches to political structures have been largely ignored or marginalised by Dante criticism. This omission is addressed here by Claire Honess, whose study of Dante's poetry of citizenship focuses on more fundamental issues, such as the relationship between the individual and the community, the question of what it means to be a citizen, and above all the way in which notions of cities and citizenship enter the imagery and structure of the Commedia.

Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity

Author : Stanimir Panayotov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003818803
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity written by Stanimir Panayotov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period. Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history, philosophy, and theology.

Body & Soul: A Guide for Addressing Eating Disorders in a Jewish Education Setting (Notes From ATID Series)

Author : Caroline Peyser
Publisher : Torah Education in Israel, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9657324068
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Body & Soul: A Guide for Addressing Eating Disorders in a Jewish Education Setting (Notes From ATID Series) written by Caroline Peyser and published by Torah Education in Israel, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meditation of Yogananda

Author : Jayadev Jaerschky
Publisher : Ananda Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8833320928
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Meditation of Yogananda written by Jayadev Jaerschky and published by Ananda Edizioni. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hong-Sau Technique for reaching deeper levels Based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda Advanced and Techniques – Daily Practice – Expert Guidance This is a unique compendium of Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings on meditation, an absolute treasure that will remain a milestone for all spiritual seekers, both beginners and advanced. The book presents the ancient Hong-Sau meditation technique, brought to the West by Yogananda and taught by his direct disciple Swami Kriyananda. The book is divided into three parts. The first describes the basic technique for everyone and teaches how to practice it with success. The second helps deepen meditation in seven weeks, learning how to practice yogic attitudes during daily life. The third is devoted to achieving the highest goal: Self-realization.

Gospel Conversations

Author : Robert W. Kellemen
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310516161
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Gospel Conversations written by Robert W. Kellemen and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community. Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling: Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.” Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.” Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven.” Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature.” These four compass points combine to equip readers to develop twenty-two ministry relational competencies—the “how to” of caring like Christ. This book serves as a practical training manual that can be used for lab and small group interaction. Gospel Conversations is the second volume in The Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, a comprehensive relational training curriculum for the local church that provides a model for equipping God’s people to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. This two-volume series weaves together comprehensive biblical insight with compassionate Christian engagement.

The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology

Author : Edward Howells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191034061
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology written by Edward Howells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology provides a guide to the mystical element of Christianity as a theological phenomenon. It differs not only from psychological and anthropological studies of mysticism, but from other theological studies, such as more practical or pastorally-oriented works that examine the patterns of spiritual progress and offer counsel for deeper understanding and spiritual development. It also differs from more explicitly historical studies tracing the theological and philosophical contexts and ideas of various key figures and schools, as well as from literary studies of the linguistic tropes and expressive forms in mystical texts. None of these perspectives is absent, but the method here is more deliberately theological, working from within the fundamental interests of Christian mystical writers to the articulation of those interests in distinctively theological forms, in order, finally, to permit a critical theological engagement with them for today. Divided into four parts, the first section introduces the approach to mystical theology and offers a historical overview. Part two attends to the concrete context of sources and practices of mystical theology. Part three moves to the fundamental conceptualities of mystical thought. The final section ends with the central contributions of mystical teaching to theology and metaphysics. Students and scholars with a variety of interests will find different pathways through the Handbook.

Healing Body & Soul

Author : John A. Sanford
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664253516
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Healing Body & Soul written by John A. Sanford and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness comes to all of us at one time or another. Some of us even have close friends or relatives who may be suffering from serious illness. This book discusses the meaning of illness in the Gospels and helps to address the important aspect of coming to terms with the meaning of illness, for spiritual satisfaction and for help with recovery.

The Light of Egypt

Author : Thomas H. Burgoyne
Publisher : Book Tree
ISBN 13 : 9781585090525
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Egypt written by Thomas H. Burgoyne and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two continues where Part One left offwithin the areas of the zodiac and astro-theology. Advanced information, at a higher level than Volume One. Contains more information on astrology than any book you are likely to see. It is a small occult library in itself, commonly used as a text for esoteric knowledge, whether alone or part of a group. Both books contain spiritual truths not found elsewhere, mostly concerning mans place in the universe, both here and after death.