Eros in the Mind's Eye
Eros in the Mind's Eye

Author: Donald Palumbo

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1986-07-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty.

The Power of Divine Eros
The Power of Divine Eros

Author: A. H. Almaas

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0834829134

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Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye

Author: Kevin Clark

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205498239

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Focusing on imagery and sound, this groundbreaking book on the teaching of poetry writing is concise, practical, and inexpensive and it's the only poetry writing text designed specifically for a college term. Winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award, Kevin Clark is a university professor, a widely published poet, and the author of the collection In the Evening of No Warning. Developed and proven over two decades of college level workshops, the flexible progression of lessons and exercises guides students through the major components of contemporary poetry writing. WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS EDITION Clear, active prose that instructs without condescending An adaptable sequence of chapters guiding writers through increasingly complex aspects of poetry: imagery, sound, implication, conflict, transformation, the lyric (and lyricism), structure, portraiture, narrative, traditional forms, sequencing, and other facets of the art, especially revision. More than 100 writing exercises, ranging from the general to the highly specific. Over 80 inspiring model poems by a diverse group of well-known contemporary poets plus poems by students. The Poet's Note Card, a concise summary of main ideas at the end of each chapter. Suggestions for extending interest in poetry beyond the classroom: how to form poetry writing groups; how to arrange and give poetry readings; and how to publish poems.

Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker

Author: Alec Worley

Publisher: Abaddon Books

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1849978549

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Mega-City One, 2100 AD. Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson?s first year on the streets as a full-Eagle Judge. After a string of apparently random, deadly assaults by customers at Meet Market ? Mega-City One?s biggest, trashiest dating agency ? Anderson is convinced a telepathic killer is to blame. Putting her career on the line, the newly-trained Psi-Judge goes undercover to bring the murderer to justice. She'll have to act fast. Mega-City One's annual huge, riotous Valentine?s Day Parade is fast approaching, and the killer has a particularly grand gesture planned...

Eros and Illness
Eros and Illness

Author: David B. Morris

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0674659716

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When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. He shows how desire—emotions, dreams, stories, romance, even eroticism—plays a crucial part in illness.

Narratology and Interpretation
Narratology and Interpretation

Author: Jonas Grethlein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009-08-17

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 3110214539

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The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to elucidate the content of narrative form. Besides exploring new theoretical avenues and offering exemplary readings of ancient epic, lyric, tragedy and historiography, the volume also investigates ancient predecessors of narratology.

Chaos
Chaos

Author: Russell Nohelty

Publisher: Wannabe Press, LLC

Published:

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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The end of the Universe is coming, and it will consume everything in its wake. It's been over 10,000 years since the Apocalypse. Katrina has ascended beyond just being a Devil into one of the most powerful gods in the Universe. However, all is not well in the cosmos. The Godschurch is in shambles after the events of Doom, hemorrhaging money and support among the pantheons. Katrina, Julia, Akta, and Rebecca spend their days fighting for backing among the deities but are making mercilessly little headway with them. In the eyes of the immortals, the Godschurch is a joke. However, when the gods start dying at an incredible rate, the church might be the only hope for the galaxy…whether the divines like it or not. Join Katrina, Akta, Julia, Kimberly, and Rebecca in the most explosive entry into The Godsverse Chronicles yet, as they work to stop the Primordials from unraveling the very fabric of existence…with the fate of the Universe hanging in the balance. If you love mythology, magic, fast-paced action, and non-stop adventure, pick up Chaos today.

Setting Plato Straight
Setting Plato Straight

Author: Todd W. Reeser

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 022630700X

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In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations.

Eros/Power
Eros/Power

Author: Hilary Bradbury

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781495159145

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Can you approach love in a way that opens your eyes rather than blinds you? Can you love passionately, compassionately, and dispassionately all at once? Can you love non-possessively but with commitment? Can you love inquiringly, bringing benefit to your beloveds? What is the relationship between your spiritual life and embodied love? How are we each to engage this great life adventure, in spite of our unique wounds? In this book filled with passion, compassion, and dispassion, Hilary Bradbury and Bill Torbert go way, way out on a limb. Sharing their erotic autobiographies with us - the beautiful and the ugly - starting with the history of their relationship with one another as professor and student, they invite exploration of the secret places where true love gets lived (and gets crushed). They ask us to reflect on our own stories of love and loss as a way to re-imagine the whole world of erotic friendship in more life affirming ways, at home, at play and at work. Coaxing love under the sign of inquiry they suggest that we already know that passionate love can enchant us, exerting a power over us that can feel like the most liberating feeling in the world. Yet it can also lead us into torturous agony. They discuss the exercise of power to love rather than imprison self and other. These pages invite you to invite yourself and your friends further into this living inquiry, inviting love with inquiry, joining Eros with Power.