Emblems of Desire

Emblems of Desire
Author: Maurice Scève
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812236941

Introducted and annotated by the prize-winning translator Richard Sieburth, this bilingual selection from Scève's Délie are love poems for the intellectual.

A Dictionary of Symbols

A Dictionary of Symbols
Author: J. E. Cirlot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2013-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0486132668

A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.

The ‘Delie'

The ‘Delie'
Author: Maurice Sceve
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107639743

This edition of Maurice Scève's 1544 poetic cycle Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu was prepared specifically for English-speaking students.

Emblems of Eloquence

Emblems of Eloquence
Author: Wendy Heller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2004-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520919343

Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

Bewilderments

Bewilderments
Author: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805212515

Through the magnificent literary, scholarly, and psychological analysis of the text that is her trademark, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg tackles the enduring puzzlement of the book of Numbers. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both before and after the devastating report of the Spies, the narrative centers on the people's desire to return to slavery in Egypt. At its heart are speeches of complaint and lament. But in the narrative of the book of Numbers that is found in mystical and Hasidic sources, the generation of the wilderness emerges as one of extraordinary spiritual experience, fed on miracles and nurtured directly by God: a generation of ecstatic faith, human partners in an unprecedented conversation with the Deity. Drawing on kabbalistic sources, the Hasidic commentators depict a people who transcend prudent considerations in order to follow God into the wilderness, where their spiritual yearning comes to full expression. Is there a way to integrate this narrative of dark murmurings, of obsessive fantasies of a return to Egypt, with the celebration of a love-intoxicated wilderness discourse? What effect does the cumulative trauma of slavery, the miracles of Exodus, and the revelation at Sinai have on a nation that is beginning to speak? In Bewilderments, one of our most admired biblical commentators suggests fascinating answers to these questions.

Emblems

Emblems
Author: Francis Quarles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1888
Genre: Emblems
ISBN:

The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races

The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races
Author: Sanger Brown
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

First published in 1916, this book is a study of 'the history of that great motive of action, the sex passion, as it appears in religion and the interpretation of its significance.' Chapters include; Simple Sex Worship, Symbolism, Sun Myths, Mysteries And Decadent Sex Worship, and Interpretations.

Emblems Of Love

Emblems Of Love
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"Emblems of Love" is a collection of poetry that showcases the work of Lascelles Abercrombie, a British poet of the early 20th century. These poems explore themes of love, nature, and the human experience. Abercrombie's rich imagery and symbolic language create a powerful emotional impact, making this collection a must-read for poetry lovers.