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Sacrificial Muse

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Author : Maegan Beaumont
language : en
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2014-07-08

Sacrificial Muse written by Maegan Beaumont and has been published by Llewellyn Worldwide this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Fiction categories.

She is his muse, and the fates require sacrifice. San Francisco Detective Sabrina Vaughn is able to shrug off the nine red roses being delivered to her office every day. But when only eight roses arrive on the same day a Berkeley student's mutilated body is found, Sabrina fears that the killer is taunting her. Forced into a partnership with a deceitful reporter who somehow remains one step ahead of her, Sabrina discovers that she's the object of a psychopath's twisted delusion...and there may be no escape.

Sacrificial Muse

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Author : Maegan Beaumont
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-13

Sacrificial Muse written by Maegan Beaumont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-13 with categories.

Roses are red... San Francisco Detective Sabrina Vaughn is able to shrug off the nine red roses being delivered to her office every day. But when only eight roses arrive on the same day that a murdered Berkeley student's body is found, Sabrina fears that the killer is taunting her. Forced into a partnership with a deceitful reporter who somehow remains one step ahead of her, Sabrina discovers that she's the object of a psychopath's twisted delusion...and there may be no escape. Don't miss the second book in the award-winning Sabrina Vaughn thriller series. __________________________ What readers are saying about Maegan Beaumont and Sacrificial Muse: ★★★★★ "Riveting!" ★★★★★ "Best book I've read this year!" ★★★★★ "Screams with voice and ferocity!" ★★★★★ "Creepy and scary, Maegan Beaumont is my favorite author to read with all the lights on!" ★★★★★ "Just when you thought Maegan Beaumont couldn't out-write Carved In Darkness, she did." ★★★★★ "This book kept me turning page after page and then blindsided me with an ending I never saw coming!"

The Sabrina Vaughn Series Books 1 2

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Author : Maegan Beaumont
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-14

The Sabrina Vaughn Series Books 1 2 written by Maegan Beaumont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-14 with categories.

THE FIRST 2 BOOKS OF THE SABRINA VAUGHN SERIES From award-winning author Maegan Beaumont "Prepare to be overwhelmed by the tension and moodiness that permeates this edgy thriller. Beaumont's ability to keep the twists coming even when the answer seems obvious is quite potent." ―Library Journal (starred review) and Debut of the Month __________________________________ Book 1: CARVED IN DARKNESS SHE SPENT YEARS HIDING IN FEAR...BECAUSE HE'S STILL OUT THERE. AND NOW HE KNOWS THAT SHE IS, TOO. Awarded the 2014 gold medal by Independent Publishers for Outstanding Thriller Fifteen years ago, Melissa was kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead. She survived, but not as Melissa. Carved from the horrors of her captivity, Sabrina Vaughn was born. With a new identity and a strength forged in the darkness of her past, Sabrina becomes a homicide inspector. Her mission in life is hunting down psychopaths like the man who tried to kill her...and nearly succeeded. But when a childhood acquaintance with a suspicious past suddenly discovers Sabrina, her cover is blown. Believing that his sister has fallen victim to the same killer who attacked Sabrina, he is dead set on getting revenge―and using Sabrina as bait. Her nightmare has come to life. While Sabrina has been hiding, her abductor has kept killing young girls. But now he knows that his Melissa didn't die after all. And he's coming for her. ____________________________________ Book 2: SACRIFICIAL MUSE ROSES ARE RED... San Francisco Detective Sabrina Vaughn is able to shrug off the nine red roses being delivered to her office every day. But when only eight roses arrive on the same day that a murdered Berkeley student's body is found, Sabrina fears that the killer is taunting her. Forced into a partnership with a deceitful reporter who somehow remains one step ahead of her, Sabrina discovers that she's the object of a psychopath's twisted delusion...and there may be no escape. ____________________________________ Praise for Meagan Beaumont and THE SABRINA VAUGHN SERIES: Named a Best Debut of 2013 by Suspense Magazine "Pulse-pounding terror, graphic violence and a loathsome killer."―Kirkus Reviews "Beaumont knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat...Buckle up for the ride of a lifetime."―Suspense Magazine "Maegan Beaumont might be new to thriller scene, but her debut thriller, Carved in Darkness, promises to be the first in a long line of novels. Be warned, however, this novel isn't for those who jump a mile every time they hear something go bump in the night. But for anyone who's ever dreamed about enacting a just revenge, this book is for you. Beaumont knows how to cook up and serve a dish called revenge, but she doesn't serve it cold. She serves it sizzling hot."―Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of The Remains and Murder by Moonlight _____________________________________ What readers are saying about CARVED IN DARKNESS and SACRIFICIAL MUSE: ★★★★★ "Riveting!" ★★★★★ "In a word, excellent!" ★★★★★ "Best book I've read this year!" ★★★★★ "Screams with voice and ferocity!" ★★★★★ "I love a fast paced thriller and this book delivered." ★★★★★ "Creepy and scary, Maegan Beaumont is my favorite author to read with all the lights on!" ★★★★★ "Just when you thought Maegan Beaumont couldn't out-write Carved In Darkness, she did." ★★★★★ "...kep

Muse

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Author : Ruth Millington
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-04-07

Muse written by Ruth Millington and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Art categories.

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOË ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti? How did Francis Bacon meet the burglar who became his muse? The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the mercy of an influential and older artist. But is this trope a romanticised myth? Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career-changing creativity and practical help to artists. Muse tells the true stories of the incredible muses who have inspired art history's masterpieces. From Leonardo da Vinci's studio to the covers of Vogue, art historian, critic and writer Ruth Millington uncovers the remarkable role of muses in some of art history's most well-known and significant works. Delving into the real-life relationships that models have held with the artists who immortalised them, it will expose the influential and active part they have played and deconstruct reductive stereotypes, reframing the muse as a momentous and empowered agent of art history.

Ritual Irony

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Author : Helene P. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15

Ritual Irony written by Helene P. Foley and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity. Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes. Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.

Muse In The Machine

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Author : Mark Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2004

Muse In The Machine written by Mark Conroy and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American fiction categories.

"A writer who simply panders to the public is seldom taken for an artist. An artist who cannot publish is seldom granted a career. This dilemma, the subject of Muse in the Machine, has been home to many authors of serious fiction since the eighteenth century. But it is especially pointed for American writers, since the United States never fostered a sustainable elite culture readership. Its writers have always been reliant on mass publicity's machinery to survive; and when they depict that machinery, they also depict that reliance and the desire to transcend its banal formulas. This book looks at artist tales from Henry James to don DeLillo's Mao II, but also engages more indirect expressions of this tension between Romantic individualism and commercial requirements in Nathanael West, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon. It covers the twentieth century, but its focus is not another rehearsal of "media theory" or word versus image. Rather, it aims to show how various novels "about" publicity culture also enact their authors' own dramas: how they both need and try to critique the "machine". In subject as well as approach, this study questions the current impasse between those who say that the aesthetic aspires to its own pure realm, and those who insist that it partakes of everyday practicality. Both sides are right; this book examines the consequences of that reality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Lude Collection

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Author : E.D. Casaubon
language : en
Publisher: Club Lighthouse Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-27

The Lude Collection written by E.D. Casaubon and has been published by Club Lighthouse Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-27 with Fiction categories.

Laura Nye is a book dealer and former sex worker who finds herself being pulled back into sex work by money issues—and a girl named Holly Oakes, a professional S&M provider with a secret. Holly knows something about a suspicious death at a commercial dungeon where she worked. Laura’s search for a book once owned by a celebrated Beat writer leads her to the Lude Collection—vintage porno mags, fetish art, and a small cache of Beat-related materials, including the book in question. The latter contains a note pointing to the completed manuscript of a fragmentary gothic poem by a famous nineteenth-century poet. When Laura begins her quest for this lost manuscript, though, she discovers others are pursuing it too. As Laura gets closer to the truth about the manuscript and Holly’s secret, parallels arise between the novel’s narrative and the manuscript’s cryptic tale. The Lude Collection alternates between book trade and flesh trade as Laura is drawn deeper into the hard-core world of pay-for-play fetish.

Sexual Personae

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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1990-09-10

Sexual Personae written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-10 with Social Science categories.

In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence. Paglia offers provocative views of literature, art history, psychology, and religion. She focuses, for example, on the amorality, voyeurism, and pornography in great art that have been ignored or glossed over by most critics. She discusses sex and nature as brutal daemonic forces, and she criticizes feminists for sentimentality or wishful thinking about the causes of rape, violence, and poor relations between the sexes. She stressed the biologic basis of sex differences and sees the mother as an overwhelming force who condemns men to lifelong sexual anxiety, from which they escape through rationalism and physical achievement. She examines the culture and style of modern male homosexuals. She demonstrates how much of western life, art, and thought is ruled by personality, which she traces through recurrent types or personae such as the female vampire (Medusa, Lauren Bacall); the pythoness (the Dephic oracle, Gracie Allen); the beautiful boy (Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray); the epicene man of beauty (Lord Byron, Elvis Presley); and the male heroine (Baudelaire, Woody Allen). Her book will stimulate and awe readers everywhere.

Paragraph

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Paragraph written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Art criticism categories.

Beyond Sacred Violence

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Author : Kathryn McClymond
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-07-02

Beyond Sacred Violence written by Kathryn McClymond and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-02 with History categories.

Argues that the modern Western world's reductive understanding of sacrifice simplifies an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities, drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices to demonstrate not only that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic, but also that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts--death and violence--are not universal.