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Author : Steven Bruhm
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904702
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Reflecting Narcissus written by Steven Bruhm and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lomas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780947912994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Narcissus Reflected written by David Lomas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, which accompanies the exhibition 'Narcissus Reflected' at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, explores the myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and contemporary art.
Author : Steven Zalman Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226475431
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection written by Steven Zalman Levine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own prolific writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late nineteenth-century France. Through a careful blending of psychoanalytical theory and historical study, Levine identifies narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and demonstrates how we derive meaning from the accumulated verbal responses to an artist's work.
Author : Jane Megan Northrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415521394
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery written by Jane Megan Northrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging the theme of appearance dissatisfaction expressed by women who had undergone cosmetic surgery, and its subsequent impacts upon body image and self-perception, this study concludes that shame and narcissism are interrelated processes, whereby the evaluations and amendments to appearance, and the notions of self and social acceptance which underpin it, are negotiated.
Author : Steven Zalman Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226475448
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection written by Steven Zalman Levine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own prolific writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late nineteenth-century France. Through a careful blending of psychoanalytical theory and historical study, Levine identifies narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and demonstrates how we derive meaning from the accumulated verbal responses to an artist's work.
Author : Lieve Spaas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571817617
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Echoes of Narcissus written by Lieve Spaas and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen contributors from the humanities and social sciences present essays exploring the myth of Narcissus, and the formation of theories based on this myth. Topics include the origin of the myth; variations of the myth; works of art inspired by the myth; the application of the myth to various social phenomena, literary works, and films; what the myth suggests about the relationship between self and others; and the transference of the myth from the individual level to the collective group. Spaas teaches French cultural studies at Kingston U. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Matt Colquhoun
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1914420640
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Narcissus in Bloom written by Matt Colquhoun and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name, this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism?
Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618872169
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Narcissus Leaves the Pool written by Joseph Epstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius, Anglophilia, and surgery--the head and the heart. Excerpted in "The New Yorker".
Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779100
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush written by David Greven and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed by an explosion of films that foregrounded non-normative gendered identity and sexualities. In the years that have followed, popular cinema has either emulated or evaded the representational strategies of this era, especially in terms of gender and sexuality. One major focus of this study is that, in a great deal of the criticism in both the fields of film theory and queer theory, masochism has been positively cast as a form of male sexuality that resists the structures of normative power, while narcissism has been negatively cast as either a regressive sexuality or the bastion of white male privilege. Greven argues that narcissism is a potentially radical mode of male sexuality that can defy normative codes and categories of gender, whereas masochism, far from being radical, has emerged as the default mode of a traditional normative masculinity. This study combines approaches from a variety of disciplines—psychoanalysis, queer theory, American studies, men's studies, and film theory—as it offers fresh readings of several important films of the past twenty years, including Casualties of War, The Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, The Passion of the Christ, Auto Focus, and Brokeback Mountain.
Author : Gary Rosenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948796910
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Blind People Describing an Elephant written by Gary Rosenthal and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr David Greven
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409469921
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature written by Dr David Greven and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.
Author : Jaime Hovey
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210147
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book A Thousand Words written by Jaime Hovey and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long-overdue volume dedicated to space trajectoro optimisation. Interest in the subject has grown, as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication, complexito, and scientific return - hardlo imaginable in the 1960s - have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimisation theoro remain an accepted canon, there has been a revolution in the manner in which theo are applied and in the development of numerical optimisation. This volume purposelo includes a varieto of both analotical and numerical approaches to trajectoro optimisation. The choice of authors has been guided bo the editor's intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialities presented. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this mao oield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also oields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevant to contemporaro problems.
Author : Mikhail Kritakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Narcissus of Mirror Lake and Other Yosemite Poems written by Mikhail Kritakis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikēphoros (ho Vasilakēs)
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674660242
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes written by Nikēphoros (ho Vasilakēs) and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes, translated here into English for the first time, illuminate teaching and literary culture in one of the most important epochs of the Byzantine Empire.
Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135010129X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period written by Maria Gerolemou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.
Author : David Summers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting written by David Summers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illusion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present. Using examples from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, David Summers argues that scene-painting (architectural backdrops) and shadow-painting (in which forms are modeled or shown as if in relation to a source of light) not only evolved in close association with geometric optics toward the end of the fifth century B.C.E., but also contributed substantially to the foundations of the new science. The spread of understanding of how light is transmitted, reflected, and refracted is evident in the works of artists such as Brunelleschi, van Eyck, Alberti, and Leonardo. The interplay between optics and painting that influenced the course of Western art, Summers says, persisted as a framework for the realism of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Goya and continues today in modern photography and film.
Author : Ronald Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878010
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema written by Ronald Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.
