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Author: Keith Oatley
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-03-23
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0199767637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.
Author: Rowena Isidro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 1456777890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forsaken Muse, a Woman's Journey from Sorrow to Hope takes you inside a woman's world as she struggles from despair, sadness, travail and self-examination to finding hope, growth and her own destiny. This is a book of poetry with PASSION, and a collection of beautiful PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS and other ARTt forms. ALL poems are beautifully illustrated by original photography which could stand on their own as beautiful art and were meticulously hand-picked. This book is for women, and therefore also relevant to men. ******************************************* "The book goes through a journey from despair to awakening, healing and triumph at the end. The poems in VOLUME I called 'Songs of Lamentation, My Life is Out of Rhyme' can be quite painful to read for some, but show the realities of life so we can appreciate when we have been through them. VOLUME II, 'I Endure, I Suffer, I Give Birth' takes us further to the woman's journey where she starts to awaken to her natural ability to fight for survival, to do something to change her situation, where she suffers and yet she is involved in birthing something beautiful within her life. VOLUME III, 'Changing...Loving myself, Loving others... Finding me, finding my destiny' shows us the beauty of her transformation, where she now has confidence to move forward, reconciles herself with herself, understands who she really is, and eventually, start to think beyond herself to help others. VOLUME IV is titled 'The Forsaken Woman Finds Herself'. - this provides a conclusion as to her journey and her self-realization. THIS BOOK OF POETRY, WHICH IS A WOMAN'S STORY, WILL NOT DISAPPOINT!
Author: Michael Gungor
Publisher: Woodsley Press
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780988242906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur creativity is inextricably entwined with our humanity. So what shall we make of the world?
Author: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 332
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne DeLong
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0739170449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the poetry of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) and the prose of Mary Shelley reveals that these Romantic-era writers equate the enraptured state that produces spontaneous literary creation with the mesmeric trance. These writers employ Medusan imagery to portray both the mesmerist and the mesmerized subject, a conflation of subject/object positions that complicates issues of agency, subjectivity, and gender. Images of Medusan mesmerism ultimately work to deconstruct Romantic ideological dichotomies of self/other, female/male, muse/artist, and sublime/beautiful. In contrast to a traditional, masculinized Romantic discourse that emphasizes self-possession, this study uncovers a feminized, improvisational, Romantic discourse, characterized “Other-possession,” an assumption of the mesmerized subject position that enhances subjective fluidity. This study interrogates the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity through an examination of Romantic poetry, prose, and theory that utilizes mesmeric and Medusan metaphors to suggest creative inspiration.Building on recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a feminist icon, this work suggests that the mesmeric Medusan muse not only enables creativity for women writers but also provides a mirror in which they view (and through which they give voice to) their own societal oppression. The mesmeric Medusan muse in Romantic-era literature—from the Ancient Mariner and the Frankenstein monster to the tragic, abandoned Sapphic poetess—often represents the face of oppression, an unwelcome and monstrous truth in nineteenth-century British society. For women writers in particular, braving the stare of the Medusan muse enhances empathy, and therefore inspiration and literary productivity.
Author: Stephen Downes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1351218360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse, and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production, and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler, Bartók, Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy, Berg, Poulenc and Weill.
Author: Jessica Decker
Publisher: tredition
Published: 2024-11-17
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3384424794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStep into the captivating world of Sappho, the legendary poetess of Lesbos, whose verses have inspired and mystified readers for over two millennia. In this comprehensive exploration, Jessica Decker peels back the layers of myth and history to reveal the woman behind the lyrical fragments that continue to resonate with modern audiences. Sappho was celebrated in her own time as a "Tenth Muse," her poetry immortalizing themes of love, longing, and the beauty of human connection. But who was the enigmatic figure behind the verses? Drawing on historical accounts, cultural analysis, and the latest discoveries, Decker paints a vivid portrait of Sappho's life amidst the vibrant intellectual and artistic milieu of Ancient Greece. From her revolutionary role as a female voice in a male-dominated literary tradition to her profound influence on Western poetry, this book explores Sappho's enduring legacy. It dives deep into her poetic style, her cultural context, and the controversies surrounding her life—illuminating how her work challenged societal norms and redefined the expression of desire and emotion. For lovers of history, poetry, and feminist studies, Sappho: The Tenth Muse of Passion and Mystery is an evocative journey into the life and legacy of one of the world's most remarkable creative minds. Prepare to be inspired by the timeless power of Sappho's words and her story. Perfect for readers seeking to unravel the mystery of the poetess who gave voice to love itself.
Author: Sarah Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317319990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.
Author: Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1107653932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first monograph entirely devoted to the corpus of late classical Greek lyric poetry. Not only have the dithyrambs and kitharodic nomes of the New Musicians Timotheus and Philoxenus, the hymns of Aristotle and Ariphron, and the epigraphic paeans of Philodamus of Scarpheia and Isyllus of Epidaurus never been studied together, they have also remained hidden behind a series of critical prejudices – political, literary and aesthetic. Professor LeVen's book provides readings of these little-known poems and combines engagement with the style, narrative technique, poetics and reception of the texts with attention to the socio-cultural forces that shaped them. In examining the protean notions of tradition and innovation, the book contributes to the current re-evaluation of the landscape of Greek poetry and performance in the late classical period and bridges a gap in our understanding of Greek literary history between the early classical and the Hellenistic periods.
