Virgin Whore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virgin Whore write by Emma Maggie Solberg. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Virgin Whore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Virgin Whore, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality. Although history is narrated as a progressive loss of innocence, the Madonna has grown purer with each passing century. Looking to a period before the idea of her purity and virginity had ossified, Solberg uncovers depictions and interpretations of Mary, discernible in jokes and insults, icons and rituals, prayers and revelations, allegories and typologies—and in late medieval vernacular biblical drama. More unmistakable than any cultural artifact from late medieval England, these biblical plays do not exclusively interpret Mary and her virginity as fragile. In a collection of plays known as the N-Town manuscript, Mary is represented not only as virgin and mother but as virgin and promiscuous adulteress, dallying with the Trinity, the archangel Gabriel, and mortals in kaleidoscopic erotic combinations. Mary’s "virginity" signifies invulnerability rather than fragility, redemption rather than renunciation, and merciful license rather than ascetic discipline. Taking the ancient slander that Mary conceived Jesus in sin as cause for joyful laughter, the N-Town plays make a virtue of those accusations: through bawdy yet divine comedy, she redeems and exalts the crime. By revealing the presence of this promiscuous Virgin in early English drama and late medieval literature and culture—in dirty jokes told by Boccaccio and Chaucer, Malory’s Arthurian romances, and the double entendres of the allegorical Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn—Solberg provides a new understanding of Marian traditions.
The Virgin Whore
The Virgin Whore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virgin Whore write by Mercy Ogechukwu Gabriel. This book was released on 2001. The Virgin Whore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the bid of a dynamic young rural man, Ikechukwu Okeke, to chart his part from the dark society. The work refeals the squalor of Obibi, Rianginen rural dwellers of the 1970s, and the corruption of contemporary Rianginen society and irs effects on the youths.
Numinous Subjects
Numinous Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Numinous Subjects write by Lucy Tatman. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Numinous Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part religious studies, part feminist theory, part philosophy, part indescribable: such is Numinous Subjects. Described by the author as ‘a kaleidoscopic exploration of why three gendered figures of the sacred matter within western culture,’ the experience of reading this text truly is akin to gazing through a constantly turning kaleidoscope. Images, concepts, phrases and quotes are continually revisited, recombined, though never repeated in quite the same way. From these tumbling constellations arises a new understanding and wary appreciation of the figures of the virgin, the mother, and the whore. Drawing on the insights of thinkers as diverse as Rudolph Otto, Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, and Martin Buber, Numinous Subjects simultaneously expands and focuses our attention on the myth of the sacred and its implications for female subjects in western culture today.
Virginity on Screen
Virginity on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virginity on Screen write by Caroline Madden. This book was released on 2024-09-06. Virginity on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Virginity--a major adolescent rite of passage--has been explored in the coming-of-age film genre for many decades. This book examines the evolution of teen movies over the past 40 years, posing crucial questions about how film shapes our cultural understanding of virginity. By surveying more than 30 mainstream and independent coming-of-age films from the 1980s to the present, it considers what types of first-time sexual experiences are represented on screen, how they are different for men and women, and whether they are subverting or reinforcing gender stereotypes. Drawing from notable teen movies such as Dirty Dancing (1987), American Pie (1999), Real Women Have Curves (2002), Lady Bird (2017), and Plan B (2021), the book identifies a progressive shift toward more sex-positive and feminist representations of first-time sexual experiences on screen. Each chapter studies how the political climate, sex education policies, and cultural norms specific to each era impact the film's release and its teenage audience.
Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis
Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis write by Volney P. Gay. This book was released on 2001-08-30. Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a hundred years, psychoanalysts have applied their theories of neurosis to objects of culture, including literature. In this book, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and scholar of religion Volney P. Gay reverses field and uses literature to reevaluate psychoanalysis. Arguing that neurosis occurs when we cannot recollect joy, Gay focuses upon the nature of joy as articulated in drama and literature. It is the absence of joy, he suggests, that evokes in children a lifelong quest for repair and restitution, usually through the stories they tell themselves. Therefore, Gay argues, literary accounts of joy are essential to contemporary psychoanalysts because they illuminate the nature of an "object" that, when absent, produces the form of human suffering that Freud named "neurosis." Throughout the book, case studies are juxtaposed with analyses of works by Plato, Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Hawthorne, Wharton, and others in order to explore the notion that the objects of psychoanalysis (and similar psychotherapies) are structured like narratives rather than organisms or other natural objects.
