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Download or read book Innocence and Rapture written by K. Ohi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.
Book Synopsis Innocence and rapture : the erotics of childhood in aestheticism by : Kevin Jon Hisao Ohi
Download or read book Innocence and rapture : the erotics of childhood in aestheticism written by Kevin Jon Hisao Ohi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For great aestheticist writers such as Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, viewing a work of art or reading a literary text is often rapturously overwhelming, provoking a dissolution of identity through an absorption with the aesthetic object. The intensity of this cultivated rapture largely depends on the sexualized fascination exerted by the beautiful child. Examining the centrality of the child's emblematic allure to the aesthetics of these writers helps to specify how their texts undermine many of the oppositions that have structured their reception, oppositions that have pitted, for example, historical reference against form and aesthetics against both politics and erotics. The desired and desiring child in these texts points to a homoerotics erotics and intergenerational desire articulated through, and formed by, aesthetic style. Exploring the relation of style and desire through children and through the subversion, in these texts, of a narrative of aesthetic education, the thesis examines aesthetic experience as the rapture of identificatory disorientation and the allure of death in Pater's notion of the Renaissance; it contrasts psychiatric denunciations of pedophilia to a more expansive discourse of narcissism in Lacanian psychoanalysis and to the erotic possibilities of reading as an ecstatic experience of formation in. The Picture of Dorian Gray; it suggests that The Turn of the Screw might be read as an allegory of contemporary narratives of erotic innocence where the protection of innocence is innocence's endangerment; it argues that What Maisie Knew presents an identification with a child's point of view that is both made inevitable and rigorously shown to be impossible, that the novel, by linking her excruciating position establishing systems of exchange in the novel to her position establishing novelistic representation, eschews contemporary sentimental narratives of innocence's endangerment; and it explores the deployment of sentimentality in Lolita as both a disruption to narratives of sincere confession and remorse (the dominant terms of the novel's criticism challenged as Humbert makes the impossibility of sincere confession stand in for an impossible desire, articulating a passionate erotics of melancholia) and to an ideology built around the coerced forgetting of the impossibility of the aesthetic education.
Download or read book Rapture written by Susan Minot and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is a New York apartment where two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men–this man in particular–but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fiancée. As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.
Download or read book Rapture in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Eve Dallas delves into the world of virtual reality gaming to stop a sadistic killer in this In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb. They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common—and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the deaths suspicious. And her instincts pay off when autopsies reveal small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve’s investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games—where the same techniques used to create joy and desire can also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction...
Book Synopsis The Book Of Rapture by : Nikki Gemmell
Download or read book The Book Of Rapture written by Nikki Gemmell and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read new novel from Nikki Gemmell -- as provocative and as deeply felt as her international bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE. three children wake up in a basement room. they have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are alone. Where are their parents? Who can they trust? the family has been betrayed to the government and Salt Cottage, their home on a clifftop above the ocean, is no longer safe. their mother's scientific work has put them all in danger. to protect them, she must let them go. She must put her faith in an old family friend - and in her children's own resilience and courage. Searing, provocative and unputdownable, tHE BOOK OF RAPtURE is a novel of our time that's every bit as passionate and driven as tHE BRIDE StRIPPED BARE. It will compel, seduce and haunt you. 'the true dramatic tension of the book is really quite compelling . . . this book will generate discussion' Sydney Morning Herald 'At the heart of A Book of Rapture is a sweet, thoughtful fable about the innocence of children and the power of familial love' the Age 'powerful and heart-rending . . . Nikki Gemmell well knows how to keep readers engaged' Courier Mail 'the Book of Rapture is a haunting, seductive story and challenging, not least because it is so hard to put down' Sunday tasmanian 'Intense' townsville Bulletin 'rapturous passages . . . lovely words push the Book of Rapture up on to another, mysterious level' Weekend Australian 'Nikki Gemmell's haunting new novel challenges readers to question all that they know and believe' Herald Sun 'a gripping read . . . this is a book that challenges beliefs about science, children, marriage and trust' Border Mail 'Haunting, thought-provoking and beautifully written' Marie Claire 'thought-provoking' Weekend Post 'splendidly lyrical and visceral' Sun Herald 'if the strength of a novel lies in its power to haunt a reader well after the last page, this is herculean' West Australian 'A fine novel' Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin
Book Synopsis Exposing the Fallacies of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture by : Billy Broadwater
Download or read book Exposing the Fallacies of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture written by Billy Broadwater and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pretribulation Rapture theory has had a foothold on many Christians in America for over a hundred years. This teaching is not allowed to be challenged in many Christian circles. Exposing the Fallacies of the Pretribulation Rapture takes the building blocks of this theory and dismantles them one by one in a serious, thought-provoking analogy of this doctrine. Is the seven year tribulation really a biblical term? Is the church literally raptured in Revelation chapter 4? Are there signs that precede the return of Christ? Is the rapture really an invisible event? Are Christians exempt from tribulation? Where did the true roots of the pretribulation rapture come from? What does the day of the Lord have to do with the rapture? These questions and many more are answered in Exposing the Fallacies of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Not only is there a thorough examination of the rapture, but also a detailed account is given of the numerous discrepancies among leading pretribulation teachers over Bible passages on the second coming. Billy Broadwaters in-depth Bible based research for over twenty-years brings home the truth about the rapture.
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Download or read book Raptured written by Geraldine Cool and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to test the faith of every Christian. This book will answer questions such as: 1) Will the Lord come again? 2) Will people be carried away at the rapture? 3) Will millions of Christians disappear from the face of the earth? 4) Before the full wrath of God falls upon sinful humanity--will people have to endure the reign of the beast? 5) Or will hideous torture inflicted upon innocent be a prelude to the glorious eternity in Christ? The Great Tribulation will be hell on earth. You will either have to take the mark of the beast or give up your life. Decide for yourself, with God's help, whether the days of rapture are fact or a fairy tale.
Book Synopsis Rapture's Rendezvous by : Cassie Edwards
Download or read book Rapture's Rendezvous written by Cassie Edwards and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maria leaves Italy on a ship to America, she has no idea she is about to meet the only man she will ever love. Michael is enraged by Nathan Hawkins' unjust treatment of immigrant coal miners, and is aboard the same ship to uncover information to end Hawkins' reign of terror. But when destiny brings Michael and Maria together, neither can foresee that Maria would be Hawkins' next pawn.
Book Synopsis Gabriel's Rapture by : Sylvain Reynard
Download or read book Gabriel's Rapture written by Sylvain Reynard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires. But those very desires may destroy them—NOW A FILM FROM PASSIONFLIX! Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever? In Gabriel’s Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader’s mind, body, and soul, forever.
Book Synopsis The Rapture Exposed by : Barbara R. Rossing
Download or read book The Rapture Exposed written by Barbara R. Rossing and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of "The Rapture" -- the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth -- is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling "Left Behind" series of books. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. In The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing argues that this script for the world's future is nothing more than a disingenuous distortion of the Bible. The truth, Rossing argues, is that Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world. The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.
Book Synopsis The Rapture Before? Or After? Conclusively by : Quency Gardner
Download or read book The Rapture Before? Or After? Conclusively written by Quency Gardner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rapture written by Claire McGlasson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapture written by J.R. Ward and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the wickedly inventive imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward comes a world where sin and salvation collide in a battle for the future of mankind—where a cynical fallen angel struggles against the seven deadly sins and a demon’s lure over seven chosen souls... Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they’re in over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too. As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover’s memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried. Especially when you’re trapped in a no holds barred war between angels and demons. With a soul on the line, and Mels’s heart at risk, what in Heaven—or in Hell—will it take to save them both?
Book Synopsis The Bride Stripped Bare by : Nikki Gemmell
Download or read book The Bride Stripped Bare written by Nikki Gemmell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RUNAWAY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Bride Stripped Bare shows us the inside–out of marriage, infidelity, obsession and taxi drivers (I may never take a cab ride in London again). . . . Few books can be both dark and light. This one dances on the edge, and sometimes crosses it, with much satisfaction to be had on either side.”— Valerie Frankel, author of The Accidental Virgin An explosive novel of sex, secrecy, and escape. A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. Known by her family and friends as quiet and self-contained, she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening. The diary opens on her honeymoon in Morocco: she believes herself to be happy—or happy enough, anyway. Swiftly, this security masquerading as love fractures in an act of massive betrayal, only to propel her into a world of desire and fantasy and recklessness. In need of guidance, she finds an unlikely heroine in the anonymous author of a dusty, rare manuscript. Written by a woman in the 1600s, it is a cry from the heart for women to live and love freely. Emboldened, she allows herself to discover the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, how long can her soul sustain a perilous double life? Coolly impassioned, Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. Couched in a deceptively simple style, its gorgeous, incantatory rhythms will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.
Book Synopsis Why I Believe in the Rapture by : Michael L. Palladino Sr.
Download or read book Why I Believe in the Rapture written by Michael L. Palladino Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show an understanding of the Bible, some "doom and gloom" but not entirely, a must read. Feed on His Word, to be victorious in the battle. All soldiers go to Boot camp. The word "revelation" in Greek means "unveiling" of hidden things only revealed by God. Revelation is our armour, power for the time of judgment. We must put on the whole armour of God to defeat Satan. Without armour we will be destroyed. The Word is our sword. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." (Ho. 4: 6) In the beginning of Revelation, His Word states, "Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." (Rev. 1: 3) Revelation is the book in the Bible that contains a special promise to obedient readers and at the same time pronounces a curse upon those who tamper with its contents. Obedience will bring us reward, and disobedience the wrath of God in the last days. Jesus said, "If you love me, pick up your cross and follow me daily." To learn the truth of his will we must come with a humble and teachable heart. In doing so, we will obtain the wisdom and knowledge of his Word. The mystery of Jesus Christ and his coming, is to all those who read it. The final Victory of the Son of God is in his Love. Then we will rejoice forever in the glory of his presence and in the abundance of his reward. A-men. A-men.
Book Synopsis Writing the Rapture by : Crawford Gribben
Download or read book Writing the Rapture written by Crawford Gribben and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Crawford Gribben offers a history, description, and analysis of the rapture-novel genre. The late 1980s culminated in the creation of the Left Behind series. The novels in this series, Gribben shows, are derivative - borrowing entire characters and significant incidents from earlier books.
