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Desert Ecstasy
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Author : Connie Mason
language : en
Publisher: Leisure Books
Release Date : 1988
Desert Ecstasy written by Connie Mason and has been published by Leisure Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
Lovely young Christa Horton left her dank, dreary English estate to join her diplomat father in sun-drenched Algeria. She expected a desert of loneliness--but found instead an oasis of passion in the arms of the virile sheik, Prince Ahmed. Sweeping ecstasy by the author of Promised Splendor.
Desert Passions
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Author : Hsu-Ming Teo
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-11-15
Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.
An Imperialist Love Story
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Author : Amira Jarmakani
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-07-31
An Imperialist Love Story written by Amira Jarmakani and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
Gould And Variations
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Author : Ghyslaine Guertin
language : en
Publisher:
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Gould And Variations written by Ghyslaine Guertin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The work of Glenn Gould employs a range of expressive techniques that combine sounds, words and images without ever compromising the unity and logic of the aesthetic vision they reflect. Nevertheless, it is his interpretive brilliance as a pianist that continues to inspire emotion and awe. The genius of Glenn Gould lies in the sounds he created. With Gould, music becomes a language – a language of such rigour, coherence and clarity that all who hear it are able to discern its principal components. Each sound is articulated and perceived distinctly as part of a melodic and harmonic sequence that imbues it with meaning. The structure of each musical phrase is integrated into the work as a whole according to a rhythm and a tempo that continually reinforce the central discourse. Gould compared his approach to that of a composer analyzing and dissecting his own work. As an interpreter, he did not hesitate to define himself as a “recording artist” dedicated to the “reconstruction” of that same work.The CD on which it is presented to the listener is thus the result of a lengthy process: take after take of the same phrases, the same ornaments – marginally different each time – until the point when the whole piece precisely mirrored the idea already formulated in his mind. This endless editing and splicing of the audio tape can be likened to the craft of the filmmaker. As well as broadening the possibilities of his art through the application of new technologies, Gould helped revolutionize the relations between composer, work and listener, requiring that the latter be not only receptive but also creative. He always conceived of a listener with access to the most sophisticated equipment, whom he could lead straight to the essence – discovery of the work – of his own quest for beauty and ecstasy. S. Bach and his contrapuntal composition were his main source of inspiration. “I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that – its humanity.”Gould’s career was framed by one of Bach’s most fascinating compositions, the Goldberg Variations. The work is concerned with balance, symmetry, harmonic coherence and, according to baroque principles, diversity and contrast. Transcending his mathematical rigour, the composer operates highly imaginatively, using a variety of genres, writing techniques and expressive means. Bach succeeds in transforming his basic musical material – an aria – without altering the general structure of the work. Owing to its harmonic form, the aria enables the listener to perceive the wide diversity of the sound landscape that is revealed as the work unfolds. The interpreter can play with complete freedom in the garden created by the composer: “It is, in short, music which observes neither end nor beginning, music with neither real climax nor real resolution.”
Landscape And Film
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Author : Martin Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-07
Landscape And Film written by Martin Lefebvre and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with Performing Arts categories.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This Ecstasy
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Author : John Squadra
language : en
Publisher: Heron Dance Press
Release Date : 2006-03
This Ecstasy written by John Squadra and has been published by Heron Dance Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with American poetry categories.
John Squadra's book of poetry, This Ecstasy, is courageous and beautiful. His poems explore with simplicity the truths of love and a spiritual life. Some poems are very erotic. Some poems expose the truths of life we all share. What I love most about this collection is that John is real and honest. I never feel, as I do with many poetry collections, that he is trying to be poetic, that he is trying to be anything. These are pure expressions from a tender heart.
Ecstasy
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Author : Eisner
language : en
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01-09
Ecstasy written by Eisner and has been published by Ronin Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-09 with Social Science categories.
The history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.
R Zbih N Baql
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Author : Carl W. Ernst
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
R Zbih N Baql written by Carl W. Ernst and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Mysticism categories.
Ruzbihan Baqli is a full-length study devoted to the life and mystical experiences of one of the outstanding figures in Persian Sufism. Although Ruzbihan Baqli (d.1209) was long recognized within the Sufi tradition, it is only within the past few decades that his works have been rediscovered and printed. This study introduces and analyzes the most important sources for the life of Ruzbihan, his own visionary diary (The Unveiling of Secrets) written in Arabic, and two Persian hagiographies written by his great-grandsons a century after his death; and extensive excerpts from these works are presented here in translation. Ruzbihan's diary is filled with visions of astonishing intensity, and it contains remarkable encounters with God, the angels, the prophets and the Sufi saints. This book aims to articulate and describe the structure of mystical experience in Ruzbihan's writings through analysis of his rhetoric of sainthood. Ruzbihan's diary is contrasted with the two biographies devoted to him by his descendants.
John Cassian
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Author : John Cassian
language : en
Publisher: The Newman Press
Release Date : 1997
John Cassian written by John Cassian and has been published by The Newman Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
"John Cassian: The Conferences is the first complete English translation of the twenty-four dialogues between Cassian and the desert fathers of Egypt. A native of Dacia, Cassian (c. 360-430) joined a monastery in Bethlehem when he was in his early adult years. From Palestine, Cassian and Germanus, a companion, traveled several times to Egypt where they learned about the monastic tradition from the great desert masters or abbas. Cassian's writings here record twenty-four dialogues with fifteen abbas." "The Conferences have long been a key work in monastic circles and among scholars of spirituality. Ramsey's helpful introductions and annotations make them accessible to a new and broader readership. Careful attention to references, notes and appendices demonstrate the outstanding research and writing which helped produce this monumental volume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Soul Of The Desert
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Author : Aleister Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Teitan Press
Release Date : 1974
The Soul Of The Desert written by Aleister Crowley and has been published by Teitan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.