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Author: Professor Peter Roberts Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ltd ISBN: 1847478336 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 260
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Description Desperate after being dismissed for a 'sex for marks' scandal, Tristram Kennedy is on the verge of panic about his university career and future. He denied the allegation but was found guilty of liaising with a young Oriental female student and awarding her grades beyond her ability and performance. He is ordered to get psychiatric help, which he does, from his old school colleague, Dr. William Brask. Brask treats Tristram for some time with medication, but one night their session continues and develops into a full expose of Tristram's affairs and demise, including the loss of his family. The story revolves around that night when Tristram opens, one after another, the sordid details of some of his affairs, and his inability to control himself when it came to Oriental women. Brask is full of sympathy but does not treat Tristram compassionately. He wants Tristam to reason his way through the corridors of his seduction and arrive at his own acknowledgment regarding his behavior and that of his women companions. Basically, Tristram sees the Oriental woman as brazenly and blatantly seductive - in her eyes, her hair, her figure and voice, her movements - and there was no resistance to such seduction. Brask has to lead Tristam to the realization that he, Tristram, was the seducer. The women were just normal girls caught in the phantasmagoria of his debauched imagination and inability to relate to them as normal human beings. Tristram denies this, saying they seduced him with a type of magic, weaved by Oriental women over Western men - or at least on him. One by one Tristram relates his encounters and demonstrates his own incapacity for love, only for sensation. Finally he maintains, if it was his problem, it was his illness, his anxiety, which took away his reason and disabled him to relate normally. But he goes further and says that people do not act on reason, that most actions only have the appearance of reason. In his state of mind he was able to reveal the deceit - the deceit of love, and all endeavours, supposedly based on sound judgment, but really concealing an anarchy of emotions and unconnected thoughts and false reasoning. It was his anxiety that gave him this insight into life, and this insight that lead him to pursue a path of wonton and deleterious philandering. What he did with Oriental women was live through his anxiety in its most dissociated form: sexuality. Some forgave him, others did not. All knew he was different and deceitful. Two of his lovers die and the third comes back to deliver to him the ultimate humiliation. About the Author In1951 Peter was born into a working class family in the inner west of Sydney. His upbringing was on a shoestring, but then that was normal for the times. He often spent his twopence for his bus fare home from school on lollies and preferred to walk and talk to himself. He remembered the first book he read in one day: a Zane Grey western, followed by Leslie Chartres's The Saint, and whatever other library book his parents left lying around. They couldn't afford to buy books. By the time he had completed primary school he had read Dickens and his favourite acquisition: 365 Things to Know. It introduced him to history and mythology of the ancients. His first philosophy book was Russell's Problems of Philosophy, read before he was a teenager, and another book: How to be a Freelance Writer took his imagination. He wanted to be a writer. He also ventured into animation spending weekends drawing caricatures. He loved the work of the Australian artist Norman Lindsay, and in his early teen years perfected a technique of copying Lindsay's drawings perfectly. During his teen years he suffered agonizingly with acne and caught pneumonia twice. By the time he had fully recovered the Americans had landed on the moon, the PLO was hijacking planes and the Vietnam War was in full swing. In his political naivety he supported the war, but on reading more at Unive
Author: Professor Peter Roberts Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ltd ISBN: 1847478336 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 260
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Description Desperate after being dismissed for a 'sex for marks' scandal, Tristram Kennedy is on the verge of panic about his university career and future. He denied the allegation but was found guilty of liaising with a young Oriental female student and awarding her grades beyond her ability and performance. He is ordered to get psychiatric help, which he does, from his old school colleague, Dr. William Brask. Brask treats Tristram for some time with medication, but one night their session continues and develops into a full expose of Tristram's affairs and demise, including the loss of his family. The story revolves around that night when Tristram opens, one after another, the sordid details of some of his affairs, and his inability to control himself when it came to Oriental women. Brask is full of sympathy but does not treat Tristram compassionately. He wants Tristam to reason his way through the corridors of his seduction and arrive at his own acknowledgment regarding his behavior and that of his women companions. Basically, Tristram sees the Oriental woman as brazenly and blatantly seductive - in her eyes, her hair, her figure and voice, her movements - and there was no resistance to such seduction. Brask has to lead Tristam to the realization that he, Tristram, was the seducer. The women were just normal girls caught in the phantasmagoria of his debauched imagination and inability to relate to them as normal human beings. Tristram denies this, saying they seduced him with a type of magic, weaved by Oriental women over Western men - or at least on him. One by one Tristram relates his encounters and demonstrates his own incapacity for love, only for sensation. Finally he maintains, if it was his problem, it was his illness, his anxiety, which took away his reason and disabled him to relate normally. But he goes further and says that people do not act on reason, that most actions only have the appearance of reason. In his state of mind he was able to reveal the deceit - the deceit of love, and all endeavours, supposedly based on sound judgment, but really concealing an anarchy of emotions and unconnected thoughts and false reasoning. It was his anxiety that gave him this insight into life, and this insight that lead him to pursue a path of wonton and deleterious philandering. What he did with Oriental women was live through his anxiety in its most dissociated form: sexuality. Some forgave him, others did not. All knew he was different and deceitful. Two of his lovers die and the third comes back to deliver to him the ultimate humiliation. About the Author In1951 Peter was born into a working class family in the inner west of Sydney. His upbringing was on a shoestring, but then that was normal for the times. He often spent his twopence for his bus fare home from school on lollies and preferred to walk and talk to himself. He remembered the first book he read in one day: a Zane Grey western, followed by Leslie Chartres's The Saint, and whatever other library book his parents left lying around. They couldn't afford to buy books. By the time he had completed primary school he had read Dickens and his favourite acquisition: 365 Things to Know. It introduced him to history and mythology of the ancients. His first philosophy book was Russell's Problems of Philosophy, read before he was a teenager, and another book: How to be a Freelance Writer took his imagination. He wanted to be a writer. He also ventured into animation spending weekends drawing caricatures. He loved the work of the Australian artist Norman Lindsay, and in his early teen years perfected a technique of copying Lindsay's drawings perfectly. During his teen years he suffered agonizingly with acne and caught pneumonia twice. By the time he had fully recovered the Americans had landed on the moon, the PLO was hijacking planes and the Vietnam War was in full swing. In his political naivety he supported the war, but on reading more at Unive
Author: Rachel O'Neill Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509521593 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.
Author: Alice Bach Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521475600 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 314
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This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Alice Bach applies literary theory, cultural representations of biblical figures, films, and paintings to a close reading of a group of biblical texts revolving around the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible. She compares the biblical character of the wife of Potiphar with the Second Temple Period narratives and rabbinic midrashim that expand her story. She then reads Bathsheba against a Yiddish novel by David Pinski, and finally looks at the Biblical Salome against a very different Salome created by Oscar Wilde, and the selection of Salomes created by Hollywood. Bach argues that biblical characters have a life in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created, thus making the reader the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.
Author: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000583422 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 609
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The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice. The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.
Author: Alexandre Farnoux Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351570781 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
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Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by its appearance and uses in a variety of modern cultural practices: from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn, to public and vernacular architecture, psychoanalysis, literature, sculpture, fashion designs, and even neo-pagan movements, to mention a few examples.Cretomania is the first volume entirely devoted to such modern responses to (and uses of) the Minoan past. Although not an exhaustive and systematic study of the reception of Minoan Crete, it offers a wide range of intriguing examples and represents an original contribution to a thus far underexplored aspect of Minoan studies: the remarkable effects of Minoan Crete beyond the narrow boundaries of recondite archaeological research.The volume is organised in three main sections: the first deals with the conscious, unconscious, and coincidental allusions to Minoan Crete in modern architecture, and also discusses archaeological reconstructions; the second presents examples from the visual and performing arts (as well as other cultural practices) illustrating how Minoan Crete has been enlisted to explore and challenge questions of Orientalism, religion, sexuality, and gender relations; the third focuses on literature, and shows how the distant Minoan past has been used to interrogate critically more recent Greek history.
Author: Dmitry Shlapentokh Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030498328 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 289
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This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining popular discourses that often help keep rulers in power. By focusing in particular on the relationship between Putin and Dugin during the early Putin regime, the author zooms in on the questionable honesty in Putin's interest in Dugin's philosophy, and the instrumentality of that philosophy for strategic regime building. Arguing that ideology is largely supported by political philosophies that gain popular traction, the book questions the extent to which rulers are likely to stay faithful to their stated ideologies. Providing on-the-ground insight into Putin's rule, this book appeals to researchers and policymakers studying Post-Soviet Politics.
Author: Donald G. Wilson Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1457543877 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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DONALD G. WILSON’S LATEST BOOK, “SEDUCTION BY DEATH,” PRESENTS THE CONCLUSION TO “SEDUCTION BY DESIGN,” WHICH WAS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF FICTIONAL ADVENTURES OF CARTER HOLIDAY, A MODERN DAY SOLDIER OF FORTUNE WHO DIVIDES HIS TIME BETWEEN PETROLEUM CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS ON BEHALF OF THE CIA. IN THIS BOOK, “SEDUCTION BY DEATH,” CARTER HOLIDAY, ENCOUNTERS PULSATING DANGER IN THE EXOTIC CARIBBEAN COUNTRY OF TRINIDAD. WHILE BATTLING TO REMAIN ALIVE DURING THE COURSE OF HIS INVESTIGATIONS AND ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES, HE FINDS TIME TO SHARE HIS UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL “PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE” IN AN EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND HIS NEVER ENDING ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENTS.
Author: Inge E. Boer Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9401203717 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 341
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Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as frame, as home (or lack of it), Boer shows that boundaries are spaces within, through, and in the name of which negotiations take place. They are not lines but spaces ; neither fixed nor empty but flexible and inhabited. With the publication of this book, Boer’s intellectual legacy stretches beyond her untimely passing. The writings that she left behind can be said to have inaugurated the future of her work, presented in the latter part by several of Boer’s intellectual companions. In their original essays, the contributors elaborate on Boer’s theme of boundaries as spaces where opposition yields to negotiation. Committed to the artefact as cultural stimulant, as the embodiment of thought, their analyses span a multitude of artefacts and media, ranging from literature to photography, to art installation and presentation, to film and song. Fanning out from Boer ‘s central focus – Orientalism – to other places of contestation, boundaries are shown to mediate the relationship between self and other ; they are, ultimately, spaces of encounter.
Author: Silke Knippschild Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1441154205 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era.The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines.
Author: Arlene E. Edwards Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443803936 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 190
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The presence of women of color within the practical applications of social science research findings is severely limited, since spaces where and when women of color enter the arenas of research methodology, research question and intervention design and knowledge generation is often that of the other. Benefitting by Design addresses this limitation. It does so by locating the experience and knowledge of women of color as its central theme, with sections of the text referring to emerging trends that attend to the need for greater representation of women of color in research and academic settings. A key theme is the dislodging of currently accepted positions for the experience of women of color as marginalized, and subsumed under normative modes of examination to central positions in areas of social science research and clinical practice. This is in response to the typical assumption of the need to ‘fix’ women of color be it based on their immigration status, sexual orientation, race, culture, class or spiritual practice. Benefitting By Design attends to the salient contexts of the lives of women of color from an emic perspective, by providing models for addressing the limitations that result from exclusion, and strategies for centering the experiential knowledge of women of color in social science research and practice that is designed for their benefit.
Author: Professor Peter Roberts
Author: Professor Peter Roberts
Author: Rachel O'Neill
Author: Alice Bach
Author: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Author: Alexandre Farnoux
Author: Dmitry Shlapentokh
Author: Donald G. Wilson
Author: Inge E. Boer
Author: Silke Knippschild
Author: Arlene E. Edwards