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Author : Rachida Madani
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-09
Tales Of A Severed Head written by Rachida Madani 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 2012-10-09 with Poetry categories.
A brilliant retelling of the classic Arab tale of Scheherazade, set in the present day
Severed
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Author : Frances Larson
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Severed written by Frances Larson and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with History categories.
Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.
The Severed Head
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012
The Severed Head written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-20
The Severed Head written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Philosophy categories.
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred. Kristeva considers the head as icon, artifact, and locus of thought, seeking a keener understanding of the violence and desire that drives us to sever, and in some cases keep, such a potent object. Her study stretches all the way back to 6,000 B.C.E., with humans' early decoration and worship of skulls, and follows with the Medusa myth; the mandylion of Laon (a holy relic in which the face of a saint appears on a piece of cloth); the biblical story of John the Baptist and his counterpart, Salome; tales of the guillotine; modern murder mysteries; and even the rhetoric surrounding the fight for and against capital punishment. Kristeva interprets these "capital visions" through the lens of psychoanalysis, drawing infinite connections between their manifestation and sacred experience and very much affirming the possibility of the sacred, even in an era of "faceless" interaction.
A Severed Head
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Author : Iris Murdoch
language : en
Publisher: Samuel French , Limited
Release Date : 2015-09-23
A Severed Head written by Iris Murdoch and has been published by Samuel French , Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Drama categories.
JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men
The Severed Hand
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Author : Wilhelm Hauff
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Severed Hand written by Wilhelm Hauff and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Severed Hand" (From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation) by Wilhelm Hauff. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Assembly Of The Severed Head
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Author : Hugh Lupton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06
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A Severed Head
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Author : Iris Murdoch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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The Severed Head And The Grafted Tongue
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Author : Patricia Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Severed Head And The Grafted Tongue written by Patricia Palmer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.
The River Imp And The Stinky Jewel And Other Tales
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language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-20
The River Imp And The Stinky Jewel And Other Tales written by and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Fiction categories.
In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyōshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics in English for the first time, introducing readers to a captivating, humorous, and eye-opening genre of popular fiction. The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales collects five kibyōshi published between 1778 and 1807, chosen for both entertainment value and stylistic variety. Their authors reinvent traditional Japanese monsters as contemporary characters who mirror the foibles of the human world. They tell stories such as: The lover of the long-necked rokuro-kubi makes a ridiculous attempt to rescue her from her human captor. A mischievous river creature steals a jewel lodged deep inside a boy’s buttocks, setting off a curious chain of events involving a historical samurai and a real-life “fart man.” A demon girl from hell is sent to the world of the living in order to destroy a sacred Buddhist statue—but things don’t go quite as she plans. Exploring the grotesque, comic, bumbling, salacious, and charming world of these creatures, the stories also provide a glimpse into the society and culture of Edo-period Japan through the monsters’ distorted lens. The kibyōshi are reproduced in their entirety, conveying the feel of the original comics and allowing readers to experience the full visual impact of the monsters.