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Sacred Monsters
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Author : Nosson Slifkin
language : en
Publisher: Zoo Torah
Release Date : 2007
Sacred Monsters written by Nosson Slifkin and has been published by Zoo Torah this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Animals in rabbinical literature categories.
Dragons, unicorns, mermaids ... all the famous creatures of myth and legend are to be found in the Torah, Talmud and Midrash. But what are we to make of them? Do they really exist? Did the Torah scholars of old believe in their existence? And if not, why did they describe these creatures? Sacred Monsters is a thoroughly revised and vastly expanded edition of the bestselling book Mysterious Creatures. Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the famous "Zoo Rabbi," revisits all the creatures of that work as well as a host of new ones, including werewolves, giants, dwarfs, two-headed mutants, and the enigmatic shamir-worm. Sacred Monsters explores these cases in detail and discusses a range of different approaches for understanding them. Aside from the fascinating insights into these cryptic creatures, Sacred Monsters also presents a framework within which to approach any conflict between classical Jewish texts and the modern scientific worldview. Complete with extraordinary photographs and fascinating ancient illustrations, Sacred Monsters is a scholarly yet stimulating work that will be a treasured addition to your bookshelf
Sacred Monsters
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Author : Edmund White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Sacred Monsters written by Edmund White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications as varied The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, House and Garden, and the New York Review of Books. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than twenty of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Paul Bowles, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Vladimir Nabokov, Auguste Rodin, Edith Wharton, Christopher Isherwood, Martin Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, John Rechy, Ford Maddox Ford, David Hockney, Reynolds Price, E.M. Forster, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, and Marcel Proust, among others.
Sacred Monsters
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Author : Carl Evans
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Sacred Monsters written by Carl Evans and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with categories.
In 1954, America flourished in the youth of global supremacy. The industrial and cultural heart of the ascendant empire was Chicago the gleaming crown jewel of the first nuclear nation.Amidst glamour and blithe a harrowing tale unfolds when the savage murder of a child entwines the fates of two cops on a perilous journey into their own humanity.
Holy Monsters Sacred Grotesques
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Author : Michael E. Heyes
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-08-10
Holy Monsters Sacred Grotesques written by Michael E. Heyes and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-10 with Religion categories.
This book explores the intersection of religion and monstrosity. The first section contains fresh research on the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, and the second explores the topic of religion and monstrosity from the Early Modern to Modern period.
Sacred Monsters Sacred Masters
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Author : John Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 2001
Sacred Monsters Sacred Masters written by John Richardson and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Insightful and opinionated, erudite and amusing, this collection by the author of "A Life of Picasso" provides a personal, close-up look at a marvelously eclectic mix of artists and writers, tastemakers and tycoons.
Sacred Monsters
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Author : Doug Bradley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Sacred Monsters written by Doug Bradley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Cinematography categories.
Actor Doug Bradley, who portrayed the terrifying character, Pinhead in Clive Carker's Hellraiser series of films, gives his own personla guide to cinema monsters and the men who portayed them.
Sacred Monsters
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Author : Daniel Farson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Sacred Monsters written by Daniel Farson and has been published by Bloomsbury Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a parade of some of the most unforgettable characters of our time. Beginning with his childhood memories of Somerset Maugham, the author tells of encounters with Salvador Dali, Kenneth Tynan, Brendan Behan, Trevor Howard, Kingsley Amis, Joan Littlewood, and many others.
Monsters Tricksters And Sacred Cows
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Author : Albert James Arnold
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1996
Monsters Tricksters And Sacred Cows written by Albert James Arnold and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows brings a fresh perspective to the confusing question of American identity. It clears the minefields laid by the generals commanding the opposing camps, while demonstrating that both sides have been primarily interested in protecting and defending an idea of "Americanness" that cannot resist scrutiny. Some of the leading international scholars in anthropology, comparative literature, and history of the Americas show convincingly in this book that contacts between and among peoples and ethnic groups have, since early colonial times, produced new- and typically American- cultural forms throughout the hemisphere. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows will appeal to the general reader and will attract a wide readership in folklore and cultural anthropology as well as in Caribbean and Latin American studies, comparative literature, and history.
Sacred Monsters Sacred Masters
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Author : John Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2001
Sacred Monsters Sacred Masters written by John Richardson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Item consists of essays or articles about artists and people from the art world.
Fortissimo
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Author : William Murray
language : en
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Release Date : 2010-04-28
Fortissimo written by William Murray and has been published by Crown Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003–2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling rehearsals—and finally perform with some of the most celebrated names (and spectacular egos) in opera, from Samuel Ramey to José Cura and Natalie Dessay. While chronicling their progress, Murray offers an insider’s look at the different aspects of the opera world that influence a young singer’s success, a world filled with temperamental maestros, ambitious directors, old-world tradition and sacred monsters. Weaving recollections of his own days training in New York, Rome and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of the young singers in Chicago today, Murray lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. As he writes, “Becoming a successful opera singer—stepping out on a huge stage to try to fill the house with your voice, to bring an audience of thirty-six hundred people to its feet—is as risky in its own peculiar way as embarking on a career as a matador. You can triumph, you can struggle to survive or you can perish from your wounds.” Fortissimo is a delicious tale of rising talents, angst and heartache and small triumphs, and the music that inspires it all.