The Medusa Effect
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Medusa Effect The
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Author : Thomas Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2009-12-23
Medusa Effect The written by Thomas Albrecht and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-23 with Psychology categories.
Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy. Focusing on the recurring metaphor of Medusas head, The Medusa Effect examines images of horror in texts by Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a series of Victorian artists and critics writing about aesthetics. Through nuanced and innovative readings of canonical works by Freud, Nietzsche, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, A. C. Swinburne, and George Eliot, Thomas Albrecht demonstrates the twofold nature of these writers images of horror. On the one hand, the analysis illuminates how the representation of something seen as horrifyingfor instance, a disturbing work of art, an existential insight, or a recognition of the fundamental inaccessibility of another persons consciousnesscan serve a protective purpose, to defend the writer in some way against the horror he or she encounters. On the other hand, the representations themselves can be a potential threatepistemologically unreliable, for instance, or illusory, deceptive, fundamentally unstable, and potentially dangerous to the writers. Through a psychoanalytically informed literary analysis, The Medusa Effect explores crucial ethical and epistemological questions of Victorian aesthetics, as well as underexamined complexities of the mechanisms of Victorian literary representation. an elegant study in rhetorical analysis. Victorian Studies Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aestheticspsychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicistin The Medusa Effect. Studies in English Literature
The Medusa Effect
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Author : Thomas Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2009-12-23
The Medusa Effect written by Thomas Albrecht and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-23 with Psychology categories.
Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.
The Medusa Effect
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Author : Justin Richards
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-31
The Medusa Effect written by Justin Richards and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Fiction categories.
Medusa - an experimental spaceship developed by the Advanced Research Department of St Oscar's University. Missing since it was launched, presumed lost in the wars, it was a project so secret that it has never been declassified. Now, twenty years on, Medusa is coming home. After one of the investigation team dies suspiciously, Professor Bernice Summerfield is assigned to help discover what went wrong. But to do so she must solve a riddle. What is the strange link between the original crew and the team now on board the drifting ship? And why do their ghosts still haunt Medusa?
The Medusa Reader
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Author : Marjorie Garber
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
The Medusa Reader written by Marjorie Garber and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Art categories.
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Medusa Uploaded
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Author : Emily Devenport
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Medusa Uploaded written by Emily Devenport and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Fiction categories.
This sci-fit thriller about a rogue starship servant has “mysteries around every corner. . . . the end product is just as fantastic as one would hope” (Los Angeles Times). My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm. They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that’s the trick, isn’t it? A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans. “Readers will be riveted.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The first book in the Medusa Cycle does not disappoint.” —RT Book Reviews “A chilling tale of class warfare in deep space.” —Booklist “An enticing start to a new space opera .” —Library Journal “One of the best generation starship novels.” —SF Revu “The worlds . . . both physical and virtual, are richly detailed and gorgeously imagined.” —Kirkus Reviews “Disturbing, exciting, and frankly kind of mind-blowing.” —Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous
Medusa S Ear
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Author : Dawne McCance
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Medusa S Ear written by Dawne McCance and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
In traditional mythology and iconography, Medusa's killing powers are attributed to visual means: the monster is slain for her looks and her effect is to kill men for looking at her. Challenging the familiar account of the modern era as ocularcentric, this book reads the Medusa-effect on the philosophy of the modern research university as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. Author Dawne McCance links phonocentrism to an aural imaginary by tracking the trope—and terror—of the deaf ear and mute mouth in the discourse on the university that was inaugurated by Kant and that extends through Hegel and Heidegger to the present. She shows how, repeatedly, in founding texts on the modern research university, the philosopher's fearful recoil from an animal-female figure that he defines as deaf and dumb has the effect—the Medusa-effect—of cutting off his own, and therefore the institution's, ear and tongue. McCance also considers some recent efforts to shake the modern institution out of its Medusa-effect petrification.
Medusa The Mean
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Author : Joan Holub
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-03
Medusa The Mean written by Joan Holub and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Seeking to become immortal like the other Goddess Girls, Medusa searches for a magical necklace, an effort that is compromised by her mean reputation, her snaky hair, and unexpected consequences.
Medusa
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Author : David Leeming
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Medusa written by David Leeming and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with History categories.
With her repulsive face and head full of living, venomous snakes, Medusa is petrifying—quite literally, since looking directly at her turned people to stone. Ever since Perseus cut off her head and presented it to Athena, she has been a woman of many forms: a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed, an erotic power that could annihilate men, and, thanks to Freud, a woman whose hair was a nest of terrifying penises that signaled castration. She has been immortalized by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dalí and was the emblem of the Jacobins after the French Revolution. Today, she’s viewed by feminists as a noble victim of patriarchy and used by Versace in the designer’s logo for men’s underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. She even gives her name to a sushi roll on a Disney resort menu. Why does Medusa continue to have this power to transfix us? David Leeming seeks to answer this question in Medusa, a biography of the mythical creature. Searching for the origins of Medusa’s myth in cultures that predate ancient Greece, Leeming explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history. From an oil painting by Caravaggio to Clash of the Titans and Dungeons and Dragons, he delves into the many depictions of Medusa, ultimately revealing that her story is a cultural dream that continues to change and develop with each new era. Asking what the evolution of the Medusa myth discloses about our culture and ourselves, this book paints an illuminating portrait of a woman who has never ceased to enthrall.
Beyond Recognition
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Author : Craig Owens
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992
Beyond Recognition written by Craig Owens and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
On the arts and postmodernism
Selected Writings
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Author : Sarah Kofman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007
Selected Writings written by Sarah Kofman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).