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The Aphrodisia

Author : William Percy
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681145626
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Aphrodisia written by William Percy and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare marinal about disguised identities and loves among the Greco-Roman deities under the Mediterranean Sea. Percy described Aphrodisia as an experiment in a new genre he was inventing, the marinal, designed to contrast the pastoral set on land in the countryside. Beyond this setting, this comedy focuses on taking to an extreme the popular European trope of disguises by having most of the main characters reveal themselves to have an identity other than the one they present themselves as. Arion relates a sad story that is an original translation of a segment out of Bartas’ Weeks about him being a poor singer who was captured by pirates, but in the conclusion, Arion reveals himself to actually be Jupiter, the King of the gods in Roman mythology. And Talus pretends to be an engineer and Vulcan’s (god of fire) son, when he is really Neptune (god of water). In standard published plots from the Renaissance, these revelations prove to have been necessary to further the goals of the characters, but in this censored story, the disguises cause lifetimes of misery and prevent all who are disguised from achieving their romantic and power goals. Percy has designed a plot that subversively shows how common pseudonyms and fraudulent identities are in British society, as it confesses the Workshop’s role in selling ghostwriting services. On the surface, the story is dense with innovative love entanglements, and the mythological misadventures of complex and stumbling characters. The preparations for Empress Cytherea’s arrival and the Aphrodisia feast in her honor also showcases realistic details about what a day might have been like when the aristocratic Percy family prepared for James I’s visit to their Sion House on June 8, 1603, just before James was crowned. “Fascinating study of disguise, identity, self-fashioning, metamorphosis, and authorship. *****” —LibraryThing, Early Reviewers, Charles Alan Ralston Plot and Staging Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises

Aphrodisia

Author : Craig Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975491225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Aphrodisia written by Craig Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains index of artists.

Aphrodisia II

Author : Craig Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975491232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)

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William Percy's The Aphrodisia

Author : William Percy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book William Percy's The Aphrodisia written by William Percy and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare marinal about disguised identities and loves among the Greco-Roman deities under the Mediterranean Sea. Percy described Aphrodisia as an experiment in a new genre he was inventing, the marinal, designed to contrast the pastoral set on land in the countryside. Beyond this setting, this comedy focuses on taking to an extreme the popular European trope of disguises by having most of the main characters reveal themselves to have an identity other than the one they present themselves as. Arion relates a sad story that is an original translation of a segment out of Bartas' Weeks about him being a poor singer who was captured by pirates, but in the conclusion, Arion reveals himself to actually be Jupiter, the King of the gods in Roman mythology. And Talus pretends to be an engineer and Vulcan's (god of fire) son, when he is really Neptune (god of water). In standard published plots from the Renaissance, these revelations prove to have been necessary to further the goals of the characters, but in this censored story, the disguises cause lifetimes of misery and prevent all who are disguised from achieving their romantic and power goals. Percy has designed a plot that subversively shows how common pseudonyms and fraudulent identities are in British society, as it confesses the Workshop's role in selling ghostwriting services. On the surface, the story is dense with innovative love entanglements, and the mythological misadventures of complex and stumbling characters. The preparations for Empress Cytherea's arrival and the Aphrodisia feast in her honor also showcases realistic details about what a day might have been like when the aristocratic Percy family prepared for James I's visit to their Sion House on June 8, 1603, just before James was crowned"--

Aphrodisia

Author : Paolo Serpieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882931293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)

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Aphrodisia

Author : Julie Bruton-Seal
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9780762779871
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Aphrodisia written by Julie Bruton-Seal and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of make-your-own aphrodisiacs with ingredients and recipes to create a variety of love-enhancing elixirs, tinctures, oils, and edibles, all illustrated with original photography by authors.

The Play of the Self

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496988
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Play of the Self written by Ronald Bogue and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze.

Testosterone Dreams

Author : John Hoberman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520939786
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Testosterone Dreams written by John Hoberman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testosterone has inspired dreams—of restored youth, recharged sexual appetites, faster running, quicker thinking, bigger muscles—since it was first synthesized in 1935. This provocative book investigates the complex, bizarre, and sometimes outrageous history of synthetic testosterone and other male hormone therapies. Exploring many little-known social arenas—both inside and outside the medical world—in which these substances are becoming increasingly available and accepted, Testosterone Dreams examines the implications and dangers of their use in professional sports, in the workplace, in our sex lives, and beyond. Testosterone Dreams tells the story of testosterone's growing and sometimes concealed influence in our culture over the past 70 years. It explores such controversial topics as the invention and marketing of the male menopause, the disturbing history of hormonal and other medical treatments aimed at boosting or suppressing women's sexuality, and hormone doping in sporting events such as the Tour de France and the Olympics, and in Major League Baseball. It brings to light the hidden use of hormone doping by policemen, soldiers, and other workers in a variety of jobs. It also discusses the burgeoning steroid use in the gay community and its relation to AIDS, and takes a hard look at the pharmaceutical industry's promotional campaigns to create new markets for testosterone products. Testosterone Dreams is the first book to bring together the whole story of testosterone and to consider its social and ethical implications: Where does therapy end and performance enhancement begin? How are changing medical technologies affecting how we think about our identities as men and women and the elusive goal of "well-being"? This book will be essential reading as we move inexorably toward the wide-open, libertarian pharmacology that is now making these drug regimes available to a wider and wider clientele.

A Local History of Greek Polytheism

Author : Irene Polinskaya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004262083
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Local History of Greek Polytheism written by Irene Polinskaya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of the deities and cults of the important Greek island-state of Aigina from the Geometric to Classical periods (800-400 BCE). It rests on a thorough first-hand reconsideration of the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. The development of the local cults is reconstructed, along with their interrelationships and how they responded to the social needs of the Aiginetans. Revising other recent models of interpretation, the author proposes a distinctive approach, informed by anthropology and social theory, to the study of the religious life of the ancient Greeks. On this basis, she uses the case of Aigina to explore fundamental issues such as the nature and variety of local religious worlds and their relationship to the panhellenic concepts and practices of Greek religion.

The Poenulus of Plautus

Author : Albert Eugene Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Poenulus of Plautus written by Albert Eugene Porter and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Structuralism: The sign sets, 1967-present

Author : François Dosse
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816623716
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book History of Structuralism: The sign sets, 1967-present written by François Dosse and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137094834
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Hermeneutics of the Subject written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most prestigious institutions. Faculty at the Collège give public lectures, in which they present works-in-progress on any subject of their choosing. Foucault's wide-ranging lectures influenced his groundbreaking works like The History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish. In the lectures comprising this volume, Foucault focuses on how the "self" and the "care of the self" were convinced during the period of antiquity, beginning with Socrates. The problems of the ethical formation of the self, Foucault argues, form the background for our own questions about subjectivity and remain at the center of contemporary moral thought. This series of lectures throws new light on Foucault's final works and shows the full depth of his engagement with ancient thought. Lucid and provocative, The Hermeneutics of the Subject reveals Foucault at the height of his powers.

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312425708
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Hermeneutics of the Subject written by Michel Foucault and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last 50 years. His works on sexuality, madness, prison and medicine are classics. This book focuses on how the 'self' and the 'care of the self' were conceived during the period of antiquity.

The Social Scientific Study of Religion

Author : Paul S. Chung
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227177681
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Social Scientific Study of Religion written by Paul S. Chung and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Paul S. Chung charts the history of social scientific study of religion from the axial age to the present day, and thereby lays a foundation for a new model of constructive theology in the comparative study of religion, culture and society. Analysing the thought of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edmund Husserl, Max Horkheimer and others, Chung deals effectively with material interests, power relations and the history of race, gender and sexuality. The result is a synthesis that is at once innovative, critical, and applicable to current methodology in theology and the social sciences.

The International Cyclopaedia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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The International Cyclopædia

Author : Harry Thurston Pech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The International Cyclopædia written by Harry Thurston Pech and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819272
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2 written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Use of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?