Reflecting Narcissus
Author: Steven Bruhm
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781452904702
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Author: Steven Bruhm
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781452904702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Lomas
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780947912994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication, which accompanies the exhibition 'Narcissus Reflected' at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, explores the myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and contemporary art.
Author: Steven Zalman Levine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780226475448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own prolific writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late nineteenth-century France. Through a careful blending of psychoanalytical theory and historical study, Levine identifies narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and demonstrates how we derive meaning from the accumulated verbal responses to an artist's work.
Author: Lieve Spaas
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781571817617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteen contributors from the humanities and social sciences present essays exploring the myth of Narcissus, and the formation of theories based on this myth. Topics include the origin of the myth; variations of the myth; works of art inspired by the myth; the application of the myth to various social phenomena, literary works, and films; what the myth suggests about the relationship between self and others; and the transference of the myth from the individual level to the collective group. Spaas teaches French cultural studies at Kingston U. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Jane Megan Northrop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0415521394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging the theme of appearance dissatisfaction expressed by women who had undergone cosmetic surgery, and its subsequent impacts upon body image and self-perception, this study concludes that shame and narcissism are interrelated processes, whereby the evaluations and amendments to appearance, and the notions of self and social acceptance which underpin it, are negotiated.
Author: Joseph Epstein
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780618872169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius, Anglophilia, and surgery--the head and the heart. Excerpted in "The New Yorker".
Author: Gary Rosenthal
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781948796910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matt Colquhoun
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1914420640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name, this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism?
Author: David Greven
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0292779100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed by an explosion of films that foregrounded non-normative gendered identity and sexualities. In the years that have followed, popular cinema has either emulated or evaded the representational strategies of this era, especially in terms of gender and sexuality. One major focus of this study is that, in a great deal of the criticism in both the fields of film theory and queer theory, masochism has been positively cast as a form of male sexuality that resists the structures of normative power, while narcissism has been negatively cast as either a regressive sexuality or the bastion of white male privilege. Greven argues that narcissism is a potentially radical mode of male sexuality that can defy normative codes and categories of gender, whereas masochism, far from being radical, has emerged as the default mode of a traditional normative masculinity. This study combines approaches from a variety of disciplines—psychoanalysis, queer theory, American studies, men's studies, and film theory—as it offers fresh readings of several important films of the past twenty years, including Casualties of War, The Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, The Passion of the Christ, Auto Focus, and Brokeback Mountain.
Author: Dr David Greven
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-03-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1409469921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExpanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.