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Author : Robert Nixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781505117844
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Crown of the Virgin written by Robert Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative and lyrical set of meditations on the splendor, beauty, and sanctity of the Immaculate Mother of God.
Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307377989
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Brothers written by Yu Hua and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.
Author : Stasia Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950097203
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The Virgin and the Beast written by Stasia Black and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say good things come to those who wait. Bullsh*%! My whole life has been about waiting. Playing it safe. Be the good girl, don't color outside the lines. Put in the hard work trying to prove myself to Dad, then to my college professors, then to my boss at New World Media. Just waiting for the day when it will all pay off. And right when it was all starting to--I finally had the house, the job, I was even thinking about getting a cat--boom!--my life explodes and suddenly now I'm here and-- "All done," the doctor interrupts my thoughts, pulling off her gloves with a loud snap. Even from the bed where I'm lying, my legs spread like the Thanksgiving turkey, I can hear the impatient growl of the man standing in the doorway. If you can even call him a man. More like a beast out of a friggin' fairytale. "Well?" Her pronouncement echoes throughout the room while the speculum is still inside me. "She's a virgin."
Author : Mary F. Foskett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253108969
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book A Virgin Conceived written by Mary F. Foskett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The virginity of Mary has been an influential tenet of Christian belief, a catalyst for Marian devotion, and a foundation for the construction of female Christian piety and practice. In contrast to previous biblical interpreters who have drawn on either linguistic or historical evidence to ponder whether Mary the parthenos is indeed a "virgin," in this study Mary F. Foskett takes a different course. Rather than investigating the meaning and implications of the Virgin as a reified symbol, A Virgin Conceived examines the portrayal of Mary as a virgin in two important early Christian narratives: the canonical Luke-Acts and the second-century Protevangelium of James. Foskett explores the multiple meanings and images that parthenos and virginity display in two sources and describes how they exploit this range of possible meanings in their representations of Mary. Her study departs from earlier biblical interpretation by emphasizing neither the ambiguity of the term parthenos nor the history of tradition concerning Mary. Instead, it displays the multiple meanings of "virginity" and their implications for understanding representations of the Virgin Mary.
Author : Claire M. Waters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204034
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Angels and Earthly Creatures written by Claire M. Waters and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the preacher's susceptibility to the fleshly failings of lust, vainglory, deception, and greed. Preaching's problematic juxtaposition of the earthly and the spiritual made images of women preachers, real and fictional, key to understanding and exploiting the power, as well as the dangers, of the feminized flesh. Addressing the underexamined bodies of the clergy in light of both medieval and modern discussions of female authority and the body of Christ in medieval culture, Angels and Earthly Creatures reinserts women into the history of preaching and brings together discourses that would have been intertwined in the Middle Ages but are often treated separately by scholars. The examination of handbooks for preachers as literary texts also demonstrates their extensive interaction with secular literary traditions, explored here with particular reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Through a close and insightful reading of a wide variety of texts and figures, including Hildegard of Bingen, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena, Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary—standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide.
Author : M. Cynthia Oliver
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800265
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Virgins written by M. Cynthia Oliver and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created Creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
Author : Sonia Velázquez
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826104
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Promiscuous Grace written by Sonia Velázquez and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms of nubile youth and the wrinkles of old age. In Promiscuous Grace, scholar of religion Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about what beauty has to do with holiness. With an archive spanning medieval Spanish poetry, Baroque paintings, a seventeenth-century hagiographic drama, and Balzac's treatment of Saint Mary in Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the relevance of the appeal to the senses and the importance of the surface in religious texts. She draws on insights from philosophy, literary history and theory, and religious, visual and gender studies, and pays close attention to the texture of the words and images that make the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt come alive and remain relevant today"--
Author : Rosilie Hernández
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504772
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Immaculate Conceptions written by Rosilie Hernández and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination - sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions - as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.
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Author : Romualdo Gentilucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary [by R. G., Followed by “Letters Apostolic of Pius IX. Dogmatically Defining the Immaculate Conception], of Her Blessed Spouse Saint Joseph (by J. J. Vallejo) and Holy Parents St. ... Joachim & St. Anne (by S. Binet).” written by Romualdo Gentilucci and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Fanous
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415308588
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Christina of Markyate written by Samuel Fanous and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, and drawing on research from a wide range of disciplines, this interdisciplinary study provides students with a fascinating and comprehensive collection that surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman.
Author : Maren Lickhardt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839444004
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Transgression and Subversion written by Maren Lickhardt and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.
Author : Fr. Benedict D. O’Cinnsealaigh
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 9781452010304
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Mellifluous Bee written by Fr. Benedict D. O’Cinnsealaigh and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam of Dryburgh (d. 1212), a Scottish Canon of Prémontré, Monk of the Charterhouse of Witham, theologian, reformer, abbot, and hermit, is considered one of the earliest and most important witnesses to the nature of the canonical order in the twelfth century. Adam's theological works and sermons show a familiarity with the theological masters and schools of his day and indicate a profound familiarity with the Sacred Scripture, the liturgy of the Church, as well as, ancient classical and Christian literature. His theological writings are important for Marian theology because they present one of the earliest theological reflections on the status of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the reforming Canonical movement of the twelfth century. Adam's Marian theology maintains a formal Scriptural and Liturgical character; Mary is the daughter of the Father, Mother of the Son, and resting chamber of the Holy Spirit. She is the watered garden, the ark, the queen of heaven, and at the same time, Adam makes her approachable, humble, compassionate, familiar, close, a spiritual model for vowed religious; and, the Mother of the Canonical Order.
Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266781
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Great Wall written by Carlos Rojas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and help secure its hold on our collective imagination, while at the same time permitting it to constantly reinvent itself in accordance with the needs of each new era. Through an examination of allusions to the Wall in an eclectic array of texts—ranging from official dynastic histories, elite poetry, and popular folktales, to contemporary tourist testimonials, children’s songs, and avant-garde performance art—this study maps out a provocative new framework for understanding the structure’s function and significance. This volume approaches the Wall through the stories we tell and contends that it is precisely in this cultural history that we may find the Wall’s true meaning, together with the secret of its greatness.
Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000523454
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of ancient sexuality. The sources range from the era of Homer and Hesiod through to the Graeco-Roman world of the Fourth Century CE and explore the diversitiy of approaches to sexuality and sexual expression, as well as how these issues relate to the rest of ancient society and culture. Sexuality in Greek And Roman Society and Literature is an invaluable resource to students and academics alike, providing a detailed series of chapters on all major facets of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. It will particularly appeal to those interested in sexuality and gender in antiquity, as well as ancient literature and social studies.
Author : Anna More
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220655X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Baroque Sovereignty written by Anna More and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and Pacific trade routes and home to an ethnically diverse population, Mexico City produced a distinctive Baroque culture that combined local and European influences. In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants—or creoles, as they called themselves—began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Mathematician, antiquarian, poet, and secular priest, Sigüenza authored works on such topics as the 1680 comet, the defense of New Spain, pre-Columbian history, and the massive 1692 Mexico City riot. He wrote all of these, in his words, "out of love for my patria." Through readings of Sigüenza y Góngora's diverse works, Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite. In an analysis that contributes substantially to early modern colonial studies and theories of memory and knowledge, More posits the centrality of the creole archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382148471
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Saturday written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Erin Bernstein
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3743822288
Total Pages : 947 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling written by Erin Bernstein and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of life? Is it better to live a life of abstention and piety or die a hero in battle? Is it ever justified to wage war with your kin? What makes a warrior sound of body, mind, and spirit? These and many other questions are not subjects that sprung from the mind of man as of late. In this saga of gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, and the like, the reader can see, in a new, unabridged format, that such matters were just as mystifying then as they are now! This volume, one of eighteen to follow, takes us on a long and winding road that asks us hesitate, ruminate, and, ultimately celebrate the triumph of good over evil. -- The Author
