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Author : Lois Gould
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394582290
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Gift written by Lois Gould and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure in the realms of fame, sexual power and history set on an island in the Aegean.
Author : Lois Gould
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Gift written by Lois Gould and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure in the realms of fame, sexual power and history set on an island in the Aegean.
Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231334
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Medusa written by David Leeming and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her repulsive face and head full of living, venomous snakes, Medusa is petrifying—quite literally, since looking directly at her turned people to stone. Ever since Perseus cut off her head and presented it to Athena, she has been a woman of many forms: a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed, an erotic power that could annihilate men, and, thanks to Freud, a woman whose hair was a nest of terrifying penises that signaled castration. She has been immortalized by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dalí and was the emblem of the Jacobins after the French Revolution. Today, she’s viewed by feminists as a noble victim of patriarchy and used by Versace in the designer’s logo for men’s underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. She even gives her name to a sushi roll on a Disney resort menu. Why does Medusa continue to have this power to transfix us? David Leeming seeks to answer this question in Medusa, a biography of the mythical creature. Searching for the origins of Medusa’s myth in cultures that predate ancient Greece, Leeming explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history. From an oil painting by Caravaggio to Clash of the Titans and Dungeons and Dragons, he delves into the many depictions of Medusa, ultimately revealing that her story is a cultural dream that continues to change and develop with each new era. Asking what the evolution of the Medusa myth discloses about our culture and ourselves, this book paints an illuminating portrait of a woman who has never ceased to enthrall.
Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404878203
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Stony Stare written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa, once a bewitching beauty, has become a hideous monster with snakes for hair. When men look at her, they turn to stone. Whe King Polydectes sends Perseus for Medusas head, he thinks Perseus will soon be another one of Medusas stone men. Or will he?
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618921X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Hair written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying. The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not only to orthodox Sinhala Buddhism (the official religion of Sri Lanka) but also, as Gananath Obeyesekere shows, to the traditional anthropological and psychoanalytic theories of symbolism. Focusing initially on one symbol, matted hair, Obeyesekere demonstrates that the conventional distinction between personal and cultural symbols is inadequate and naive. His detailed case studies of ecstatics show that there is always a reciprocity between the personal-psychological dimension of the symbol and its public, culturally sanctioned role. Medusa's Hair thus makes an important theoretical contribution both to the anthropology of individual experience and to the psychoanalytic understanding of culture. In its analyses of the symbolism of guilt, the adaptational and integrative significance of belief in spirits, and a host of related issues concerning possession states and religiosity, this book marks a provocative advance in psychological anthropology.
Author : Rob M. Worley
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1616413050
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Medusa written by Rob M. Worley and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty isn't everything, as Medusa learns. Find out how the goddess Athena teaches this lesson in this brilliantly illustrated Greek myth. Pink level for your fluent reader.
Author : Nick Saunders
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836877489
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Perseus and Medusa written by Nick Saunders and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Turnbridge Wells, Kent: Ticktock Media, 2006.
Author : Jennifer Buchet
Publisher : Spork
ISBN 13 : 9781950169474
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Little Medusa's Hair Do-Lemma written by Jennifer Buchet and published by Spork. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Medusa comes from a long line of snake-loving, serpentine-wearing Gorgons. When she receives her very first snake, Little Medusa discovers that having a snake slither and slide through her hair isn't so great after all. And to make matters more difficult, she begins questioning if she really wants to scare her friends to stone with her new forever friend. Using her imagination and heart, Little Medusa tries her best to please her family, her best-pet snake, and herself. Based on Greek Mythology, Little Medusa features Common Core Connections and explores the universal themes of following family tradition and staying true to oneself.
Author : Rosie Hewlett
Publisher : Silverwood Books
ISBN 13 : 9781800420663
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Medusa written by Rosie Hewlett and published by Silverwood Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgon. Killer. Monster. Victim. Survivor. Protector. Medusa breathes new life into an ancient story and echoes the battle that women throughout millennia have continued to wage.
Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199739315
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Gaze written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long and intricate history of the beautifully carved Hellenistic style Egyptian bowl, from the days of Cleopatra to Constantinople, the French Revolution, and to near destruction by a deranged museum guard in 1925.
Author : Bob Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057511004X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Children written by Bob Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What unfathomed secrets lay sleeping in this eerie world of water? The Clan knew almost nothing about the giant sphere of water they inhabited, and even less about the sun and planets nearby in space. Living amidst a cluster of nets anchored to the roots of a giant plant, they were aware only of their unending quest for precious air bubbles; and of the unending threat from the ever-hungry Hora. Those who fell victim to the beasts' voracious tentacles were left to sink slowly to the depths, where an awesome and unknown being awaited them. He was the greatest mystery of Clan existence - until that is, the world began to change, until the current began to draw the city down to the realms of Ka.
Author : Jessie Burton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547607602
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Medusa written by Jessie Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, lyrical YA retelling of Greek myth, from Jessie Burton, internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. "A powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story." -Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The Song of Achilles If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait to hear the rest? The why, the how, what happened next? Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashing desire, love, betrayal . . . and destiny itself. With stunning, full-color illustrations and a first person narrative illuminating the fierce, vulnerable, determined girl behind the myth, this astonishing retelling is perfect for readers of Circe, and brings the story of Medusa to life for a new generation.
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593321596
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Ankles written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary—even beyond the gloss of the fantastical—to places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.
Author : Corinne J. Naden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893753627
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Perseus and Medusa written by Corinne J. Naden and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perseus is sent to slay Medusa and also saves a princess from a sea serpent.
Author : Cindy Dees
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460824423
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Master written by Cindy Dees and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain "Kat" Kim, leader of the all-female Medusa squad, lives by the warrior's code. Trained in an ancient warrior tradition, she can scale a wall in complete silence. But when she's paired with Special Forces Captain Jeff Steiger, she faces new danger. Steiger is all-American, from his blue eyes to his sun-streaked hair, and his laid-back manner goes against Kat's control-freak ways. When the two hunt for a high-end art thief, their opposite styles combust. And as mysterious commandos turn the job deadly, Kat must ditch her steely discipline and surrender to the desire that threatens to take them both down .
Author : Melissa Monroe
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374595
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Medusa Beach written by Melissa Monroe and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from one of the most exciting voices in American poetry. For many years, Melissa Monroe has been assembling one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry, drawing on all different kinds of writing, from technical manuals to books of spells to dictionaries of slang, to explore the many ways—poetry is, after all, one of them—in which we human beings seek to know and control the elusive realities of the world around and within us. Her subject is both the strangeness of things and the strangeness of the things we think, and she has an unsurpassed eye for the wilderness between them that we inhabit. The poems collected in Medusa Beach include “Planetogenesis,” recording the life of an imaginary planet; “Whiz Mob,” a sequence of haikus composed in the criminal argot of 1940s America; “Frequently Asked Questions About Spirit Photography”; and the title poem, which interweaves an account of the life and thought of the great German philosopher and marine biologist Ernst Haeckel with a meditation on the many historical and natural historical avatars of the figure of Medusa. As formally adventurous as they are rigorous, disconcertingly comic, and deeply strange, the poems in Medusa Beach are the work of a true American original.
Author : Paria Honardoust
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Medusa's Mourning written by Paria Honardoust and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa's Mourning draws out the authentic nature of overthinking. As humans, we all have our self-criticisms, inner-turmoil, and snakes that whisper into our ears, meddling with our minds and dimming our perceptions. This collection of poems examines the many manifestations of insecurities and the attempt of regaining the territories of the mind taken by intrusive thoughts. Honardoust's work will resonate with readers who feel overwhelmed with their inner voice; you will feel empowered and heard in Medusa's Mourning. This poetry disregards ties to Greek mythology and any references made to Medusa are used as symbolism.
