Manifold Visions of Self
Manifold Visions of Self

Author: Ujjwala Kakarla

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2019-02-10

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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The book Manifold Visions of Self is a collection of poems questioning the freedom of self, in connection to nature and existence. In one way, one's search for freedom may be quiet introspection; in other way it may be a means of extrospection mirroring the humanization of the world in entirety. Some of my poems are interior monologues of my inner Self, musings on Nature and God. Moreover, a few poems question the advocacy of women's rights, and a few against inimical child labour. Some of my poems reflect the magnitude of general evil penned with language of freedom, power of reality and substantial action. All the poems are absolute invention of me and the facts which took place within my personal observation, a natural delineation of human passions, human characters and human incidents. As such, many poems speak more philosophically of my spiritual attachment with the unique things of existence.

The Agony and Ecstacy of Caregivers (Burnout and Preventive Action)
The Agony and Ecstacy of Caregivers (Burnout and Preventive Action)

Author: Nilakanta Siva

Publisher: Prowess Publishing

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1545744939

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While tons of praise and empathy for the medical fraternity and for the patients struggling long term exist, very little seems to permeate to the home caregivers forgotten and forlorn. Forever silent throughout the battle and through those self-debilitating years of their lives, they remain among the long-lost perennial sufferers. This book causes a few to speak out, both those who buckled under the strain as also those who came out with joy and satisfaction at the end outcome. The ‘recalled to life’ dear one obliterates all the trauma of the past. We need to be more aware of how difficult the task of care giving is, and show respect and extend a helping hand when such a situation arises. At the very least, she ought to be respected as a human being whose sole purpose in life, for the time being, has been the welfare of the sick husband. This certainly has a cascading effect and a word of appreciation and a simple smile a day will bring more care from the spouse. This book establishes this without an iota of doubt.

Visions of the Courtly Body
Visions of the Courtly Body

Author: Christiane Hille

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-01-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 305006255X

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In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.