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Acid Revival

Author : Danielle Giffort
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959773
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Acid Revival written by Danielle Giffort and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today’s researchers tell stories about Leary as an “impure” scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science. This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.

The Muse Process

Author : Barbara Cox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674914
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Muse Process written by Barbara Cox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all instilled with principles, passed down through generations, that guide our feelings and behaviors. Women often feel immense pressure to live up to preconceived standards when taking on the roles of wife, partner or mother. The drive to meet expectations can lead to a sense of lost individuality and feelings of isolation and invisibility. This book serves as a guide through the "muse process," which encourages women to explore their innate feminine power to reach their full potential and create a happier, healthier life.

Manufacturing the Muse

Author : Dennis G. Waring
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565082
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing the Muse written by Dennis G. Waring and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.

Tolstoy's Dictaphone

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555972486
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy's Dictaphone written by Sven Birkerts and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors. For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium usher in an unprecedented age of interconnectedness and opportunities for wider communication? In the tradition of the Graywolf Annuals, this first Graywolf Forum presents a wide range of responses from contemporary creative writers. Contributors: Sven Birkerts Harvey Blume Daniel Mark Epstein Jonathan Franzen Thomas Frick Alice Fulton Albert Goldbarth Carolyn Guyer Gerald Howard Wendy Lesser Ralph Lombreglia Carole Maso Askold Melnyczuk Robert Pinsky Wulf Rehder Lynne Sharon Schwartz Tom Sleigh Mark Slouka Paul West

Alexandria 4

Author : David Fideler
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 9780933999398
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria 4 written by David Fideler and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria explores the relationships between philosophy, cosmology, myth and culture; the spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual heritage of the Western World; and what the humanities have to contribute to the world today.

In the Company of the Muse

Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0967951127
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of the Muse written by Okoro, Dike and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Dike Okoro, Sam Walton Fellow and finalist for the 1994 Iliad Poetry Award, teaches advanced reading and writing poetry and literature courses at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA. He received his PhD in English (with research specialization in African Diaspora literatures) from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, an M.A. in African American literature and an M.F.A. in poetry, both from Chicago State University. He is the editor and author of six books, including Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories, Echoes from the Mountain: New and Selected Poems by Mazisi Kunene A Long Dream: Poems by Okogbule Wonodi. His poems, essays, short stories, chapters and articles have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Alexandria

Author : David R. Fideler
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 9780933999541
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria written by David R. Fideler and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of cosmology, philosophy, myth, and culture.

Revival After the Great War

Author : Luc Verpoest
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702500
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Revival After the Great War written by Luc Verpoest and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse

Author : Anne DeLong
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739170449
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse written by Anne DeLong and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the poetry of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) and the prose of Mary Shelley reveals that these Romantic-era writers equate the enraptured state that produces spontaneous literary creation with the mesmeric trance. These writers employ Medusan imagery to portray both the mesmerist and the mesmerized subject, a conflation of subject/object positions that complicates issues of agency, subjectivity, and gender. Images of Medusan mesmerism ultimately work to deconstruct Romantic ideological dichotomies of self/other, female/male, muse/artist, and sublime/beautiful. In contrast to a traditional, masculinized Romantic discourse that emphasizes self-possession, this study uncovers a feminized, improvisational, Romantic discourse, characterized “Other-possession,” an assumption of the mesmerized subject position that enhances subjective fluidity. This study interrogates the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity through an examination of Romantic poetry, prose, and theory that utilizes mesmeric and Medusan metaphors to suggest creative inspiration.Building on recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a feminist icon, this work suggests that the mesmeric Medusan muse not only enables creativity for women writers but also provides a mirror in which they view (and through which they give voice to) their own societal oppression. The mesmeric Medusan muse in Romantic-era literature—from the Ancient Mariner and the Frankenstein monster to the tragic, abandoned Sapphic poetess—often represents the face of oppression, an unwelcome and monstrous truth in nineteenth-century British society. For women writers in particular, braving the stare of the Medusan muse enhances empathy, and therefore inspiration and literary productivity.

Matches

Author : S. D. Chrostowska
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1950192210
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Matches written by S. D. Chrostowska and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes any number of forms. Epigrams. Aphorisms. Fragments. Sayings. Dicta. Sententiae. Facetiae. Pearls of wisdom. Fractions of truth. Maxims. Definitions. Jottings. Miscellaneous musings. Meditations. Ricordi. Pensées. Ephemera. Miniatures. Sketches. Vignettes. Denkbilder. Capriccios. Tiny 'fires without flames' ... In returning to these genres, Matches goes back to the drawing board of modern critique. It sets out to rekindle short-form literary-philosophical reflection, with roots in the Antiquity of Heraclitus and Hippocrates, apogee in the French moralistes (La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Chamfort ...), and late splendour in German letters (Nietzsche, Kraus, Jünger ...). Moving from art and aesthetics to philosophies past and present, through natural and technological landscapes, beneath the constellations of politics, history and ethics, along the byways of contemporary literary culture--the slow reader with a little spare time will not fail to be struck. Here are pages to peruse and mistrust, texts to think with, a book to put down and ponder, to ponder and put down. A tome to keep handy, handle often, and strike repeatedly against the rough patches of the mind.

The Revival

Author : William Ainsworth Tyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Revival written by William Ainsworth Tyson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Middlebrow Modernism

Author : Christopher Chowrimootoo
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298659
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Middlebrow Modernism written by Christopher Chowrimootoo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the “great divide” between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten’s works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.

The Muse's Mirrour

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Muse's Mirrour written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

Author : Bj Heile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351542400
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music written by Bj Heile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.

Exploring Twentieth-Century Music

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016681
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Twentieth-Century Music written by Arnold Whittall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.

Essays in the History of Ideas

Author : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432382
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the History of Ideas written by Arthur O. Lovejoy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

Crown Princess in Kenya

Author : Festus Ogunbitan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984545205
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Crown Princess in Kenya written by Festus Ogunbitan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young lady who comes down from the TreeTop Hotel to answer her country in time of need, as Cincinnatus leaves Quinctian Meadow’s farm to answer his country in time of need.