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Sex, Time, and Power

Author : Leonard Shlain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142004678
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Time, and Power written by Leonard Shlain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female’s pelvis and the increasing size of infants’ heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex—a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain’s brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.

The Experiences of Tiresias

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864062
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Experiences of Tiresias written by Nicole Loraux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders. The emphasis falls on the body, often associated with feminine vulnerability and weakness, and often dissociated from the ideal of the brave, self-sacrificing male warrior. But heroes such as the Homeric Achilles, who fears yet fights bravely, and Socrates, who speaks of the soul through the language of the body, challenge these representations. The anatomy of pain, the heroics of childbirth, the sorrows of tears, the warrior's wounds, and the madness of the soul: all these experiences are shown to engage with both the masculine and the feminine in ways that do not denigrate the experiences for either gender. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Approaches to Greek Myth

Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801838644
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Greek Myth written by Lowell Edmunds and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. In Approaches to Greek Myth, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Contributors are H. S. Versnel on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carlo Brillante, on the history of Greek myth and history in Greek myth; Robert Mondi, on the near Eastern contexts, and Joseph Falaky Nagy, on the Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William F. Hansen on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the Greimasian approach; Richard Caldwell, on psychoanalytic interpretations; and Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on the iconography of vase paintings of Theseus and Medea—and on a methodology for "reading" such visual sources. In his introduction, Edmunds confronts Marcel Detienne's recent deconstruction of the notion of Greek mythology and reconstructs a meaning for myth among the ancient Greeks.

History and Memory

Author : Harold Schweizer
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754177
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book History and Memory written by Harold Schweizer and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the relationship between history and suffering, and ask what forms of narrative could articulate such a relationship. They refer to writers from Sophocles to Celan, from Wordsworth to Thomas Bernhard and from Proust to Benjamin Fondane.

The Waste Land

Author : Vikramaditya Rai
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805378
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Waste Land written by Vikramaditya Rai and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this

Tiresian Poetics

Author : Ed Madden
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838639375
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Tiresian Poetics written by Ed Madden and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed andembodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure. Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities." "This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian andmodernist writers reimagined Ovid's tale of sex change and sexual judgment, they also created a poetics that grounded artistic or perfonnative power in figures of sexual difference - most often a feminized, often homosexual malebody, which this study links to the developing discourses of homosexuality and sexual identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114109
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles' Oedipus Rex written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.

The Critical Romance

Author : Jean-Pierre Mileur
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299124144
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Romance written by Jean-Pierre Mileur and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Pierre Mileur asserts that "the literary tradition, the great tradition of the Romantics, is now being carried on by criticism," and that modern criticism "is a late Romantic literary genre, a distinctive form of the romance." By collapsing the boundaries between the literary and the literary-critical traditions, Mileur embarks on a thought-provoking analysis of literary criticism. Criticism becomes a modern version of the age-old quest romance, and the critic becomes a romantic hero--a brooding figure fraught with self-doubt who strives, like Browning's Childe Roland, despite knowledge of certain failure. The Critical Romance is an exciting intervention in the critical study of criticism, and makes a significant contribution to the study of Romanticism as well.

The Structuralist Controversy

Author : Richard A. Macksey
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883958
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Structuralist Controversy written by Richard A. Macksey and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a 1966 international symposium hosted by the Johns Hopkins University, many of the leading figures of European structuralist criticism first presented their ideas to the American academic community. The proceedings of this event—which proved epoch-making on both sides of the Atlantic—were first published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1970 and are now available once again, with a reflective new preface by editor and symposium convener Richard Macksey.

Who's Who in Classical Mythology

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113450943X
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who in Classical Mythology written by Michael Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and detailed reference book of its kind, Who's Who in Classical Mythology contains over 1200 extensive entries, covering both Greek and Roman characters.

Distant Companions

Author : C. M. J. Sicking
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004110540
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Distant Companions written by C. M. J. Sicking and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers on Greek literature, historiography and philosophy and on the history of classical scholarship seek to explore the consequences of the paradoxical combination of interpreting messages from a distant past and at the same time vindicating their relevance to contemporary civilization.

The Twentieth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nineteenth Century and After

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Twentieth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineteenth century and after (London)

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre

Author : I. Eynat-Confino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616968
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre written by I. Eynat-Confino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.