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The Manly Paradox

Author : Max Steiner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781477273005
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Paradox written by Max Steiner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manley Paradox is the story of a romance between a young poor orphan and a rich girl whose father is not only arrogant and controlling but has something to hide. The boy, Chris, is a student in computer science but is so poor that he is actually homeless until one of his professors finds him sleeping in the woods. As an undergrad Chris becomes interested in the security of financial transfers. As part of his research he stumbles across the very rich Manly family that controls a financial transfer company. When Kyle Manly turns up at the same university, Chris is a first year grad student and she is in a freshman in a section that he teaches. He dislikes the Manly family based on what he knows about them but finds himself attracted to Kyle. Kyle for her part is infatuated with Chris and has no idea how to proceed. Kyles father has given a grant to the university and Chris works on the grant. As part of his work he is asked to see if the companys security can be breached and whether he can take money without getting caught. This turns out to be a setup. Chris is eventually arrested and charged with theft. One must believe that in all young romance, love and truth should triumph.

The Manly Eunuch

Author : Mathew Kuefler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226457390
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Eunuch written by Mathew Kuefler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-07-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of masculinity formed a key part of the intellectual life of late antiquity and was crucial to the development of Christian society. This idea is at the heart of Mathew Kuefler's new book, which revisits the Roman Empire during the third and fifth centuries of the common era. Kuefler argues that the collapse of the Roman army, an increasingly autocratic government, and growing restrictions on the traditional rights of men within marriage and sexuality all led to an endemic crisis in masculinity: men of Roman aristocracy, who had always felt themselves to be soldiers, statesmen, and the heads of households, became, by their own definition, unmanly. The cultural and demographic success of Christianity during this epoch lay in the ability of its leaders to recognize and respond to this crisis. Drawing on the tradition of gender ambiguity in early Christian teachings, which included Jesus's exhortation that his followers "make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven," Christian writers and thinkers crafted a new masculine ideal, one that took advantage of the changing social realities in Rome, inverted the Roman model of manliness, and helped solidify Christian ideology by reinstating the masculinity of its adherents.

Scripture Paradoxes: their true explanation. Lectures, etc. no. 1-12

Author : Jonathan Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Scripture Paradoxes: their true explanation. Lectures, etc. no. 1-12 written by Jonathan Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arena of Masculinity

Author : Brian Pronger
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429934999
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Arena of Masculinity written by Brian Pronger and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle. Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete in a straight sporting world, examines the homoerotic undercurrent subliminally present in the masculine struggle of sports, and explicates the growth of gay sports in the framework of the developing gay culture.

The Tragic Paradox

Author : Leonard Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171224
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Paradox written by Leonard Moss and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity brought into play by an unrelenting drive for respect. Their patterns of speech, action, and image project a convergence of polarities, the convergence of integrity and radical change, of constancy and infidelity. A fanatical drive to fulfill a traditional code of masculine conduct produces the ironic consequence of de-forming that code—the tragic paradox. Tragic literature exploits irony. In Athenian and Shakespearean tragedy, self-righteous male or female aristocrats instigate their own disgrace, shame, and guilt, an un-expected diminishment. They are victimized by a magnificent obsession, a fantasy of un-alloyed authority or virtue, a dream of perfect self-sufficiency or trust. The authors of tragedy revised the concept of “nobility” to reflect the strange fact that grandeur elicits its own annulment. “Strengths by strengths do fail,” Shakespeare wrote in Coriolanus. The playwrights made this paradoxical predicament concrete with a narrative format that equates self-assertion with self-detraction, images that revolve between incredible reversals and provisional reinstatements, and speech that sounds impressively weighty but masks deception, disloyalty, cynicism, and insecurity. Three heroic philosophers, Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche, contributed invaluable but contrasting accounts of these literary languages (Aristotle's Poetics will be discussed in connection with Plato's attitude toward poetry). Their divergent descriptions can be reconciled to show that invalidations as well as affirmations—the transmission of contraries—are essential for tragic composition. An equivocal rhetoric, a mutable imagery, and an ironic progression convey the tortuous pursuit of personal preeminence or (in later tragic works by Kafka and Strindberg) family solidarity and communal safety. I am trying to integrate the disparate arguments offered by several notable theorists with technical procedures fashioned by the Athenian dramatists and recast by Shakespeare and other writers, procedures that articulate the tragic paradox.

Paradoxes of Gender

Author : Judith Lorber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064971
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes of Gender written by Judith Lorber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, a well-known feminist and sociologist--who is also the Founding Editor of Gender & Society--challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber views gender as wholly a product of socialization subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation. In her new paradigm, gender is an institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Drawing on many schools of feminist scholarship and on research from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, Lorber explores different paradoxes of gender: --why we speak of only two "opposite sexes" when there is such a variety of sexual behaviors and relationships; --why transvestites, transsexuals, and hermaphrodites do not affect the conceptualization of two genders and two sexes in Western societies; --why most of our cultural images of women are the way men see them and not the way women see themselves; --why all women in modern society are expected to have children and be the primary caretaker; --why domestic work is almost always the sole responsibility of wives, even when they earn more than half the family income; --why there are so few women in positions of authority, when women can be found in substantial numbers in many occupations and professions; --why women have not benefited from major social revolutions. Lorber argues that the whole point of the gender system today is to maintain structured gender inequality--to produce a subordinate class (women) that can be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers, and emotional nurturers. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize economic, educational, and cultural resources or the positions of power.

Paradoxes

Author : Max Simon Nordau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes written by Max Simon Nordau and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cicero's Essays on Old Age and Friendship, Also His Paradoxes

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Essays on Old Age and Friendship, Also His Paradoxes written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Paradoxical Brain

Author : Narinder Kapur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495798
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Brain written by Narinder Kapur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: • Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss • Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions • Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development • Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease • Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will lead to a better understanding of brain function and to the introduction of new therapeutic strategies. The book will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.

Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love

Author : Hillel Matthew Daleski
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211255
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love written by Hillel Matthew Daleski and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the vast changes in literary criticism that have occurred during the last thirty years, H. M. Daleski reexamines Thomas Hardy's novels in the novelist's own terms, presenting a revisionary account of his treatment of gender. He also shows that Hardy was not as sexist as is asserted in much feminist criticism and that his female characters are sympathetically portrayed as the centers of his fictional worlds. By carefully analyzing the novels, Daleski refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his powers, claiming that he drove himself to a dead end in Jude the Obscure. The typical Hardy plot places a female protagonist in a love triangle with two male protagonists who are portrayed as polar opposites. The woman contradicting a general view of her as victim is always granted the freedom of choice of a marriage partner. She invariably makes the wrong choice, which leads to a bad marriage and disastrous sexual relationships. As this scenario is played out in most of Hardy's novels, the men are presented as distinct types, the types being depicted with rich diversity and with steadily greater psychological depth. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity. In his intuitions about sexual relations, Daleski maintains Hardy was not outdone by writers such as Lawrence and Joyce. Daleski studies Hardy within his Victorian context, but he also shows that Hardy, both in his depiction of sexuality and in his technical innovations, was in advance of his time. In these respects Hardy deserves to be regarded as a forerunner of the great modernists. In Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love, Daleski offers acute and thoughtful analyses of Hardy's major novels. Avoiding critical jargon, the author has made his book accessible to all readers with an interest in Hardy and his novels, as well as in the study of gender in English literature.

Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's dream, and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate, tr. by C.R. Edmonds

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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's dream, and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate, tr. by C.R. Edmonds written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial Paradoxes

Author : Robert James Merrett
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007976
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Paradoxes written by Robert James Merrett and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history.

Women Writing the Nation

Author : Leanne Maunu
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756706
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Women Writing the Nation written by Leanne Maunu and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Writing the Nation: National Identity, Female Community, and the British - French Connection, 1770-1820 engages in recent discussions of the development of British nationalism during the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Leanne Maunu argues that women writers looked not to their national identity, but rather to their gender to make claims about the role of women within the British nation. Discussing texts by Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, Maunu demonstrates that women writers of this period imagined themselves as members of a fairly stable community, even if such a community was composed of many different women with many different beliefs. They appropriated the model of collectivity posed by the nation, mimicking a national imagined community.

Masculinity

Author : Peter Lehman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135273405
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity written by Peter Lehman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema.

Paradoxes and Puzzles. Historical, Judicial and Literary

Author : John Paget (Barrister-at-Law.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes and Puzzles. Historical, Judicial and Literary written by John Paget (Barrister-at-Law.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradoxes and Puzzles, Historical, Judicial, and Literary

Author : John Paget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Paradoxes and Puzzles, Historical, Judicial, and Literary written by John Paget and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674403727
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes written by Georges Duby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.