Legends of the Sibilline Mountains

Legends of the Sibilline Mountains
Author: Giuseppe Santarelli
Publisher: STAF edizioni
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8888532072

"Legends of the Sibilline Mountains" is a small book about an obscure corner of Italy and an equally obscure backwater of world literature. And yet the subjects it touches upon--amongst them, the roots of literature in popular consciousness, the intimations of Christian existentialism, the absorption of pagan traditions into Christianity--reach far and wide. Goddess worship, necromantic rites, the death of Pontius Pilate, Benevenuto Cellini, Goethe's "Faust," Wagner's "Tannhauser"...they all connect here in a real place of strange geological formations and magical beauty. The Sibilline Mountains, dividing Le Marche from Umbria, were "celebrated in the 14th and 15th centuries throughout all Europe for magical fairy tales and necromantic initiations," according to the author, Giuseppe Santarelli. In the most famous of these tales a mysterious Sibyl inhabits a grotto devoted to the pleasures of the flesh, luring knights to eternal damnation. Another legend concerns the Lago di Pilato, a mountaintop lake where Pontius Pilate's body had been cast that later became a destination for demonic rituals. In a witty and personal tone Santarelli, director of the Sanctuary of Loreto, discusses the origins of the myths in folklore, their literary transformations through the centuries, and the archeological traces they left behind.

Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities

Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities
Author: Dr Amelia Yeates
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1409455580

Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors to Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities examine the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, William Bell Scott, William Holman Hunt, among others, to show how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
Author: Gordon Williams
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 1650
Release: 2001-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0485113937

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Beyond Mars and Venus

Beyond Mars and Venus
Author: John Gray
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1942952309

The author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time returns with an updated guide for today's generation. Two decades ago, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus revolutionized the way we thought about love and partnership. John Gray's work has helped countless readers improve and even save their relationships. But as society evolves, relationships do, too. It's time to move beyond Mars and Venus, toward a new relationship model for modern couples. Today, men and women are no longer trapped by rigid societal roles. Now more than ever, we have the freedom to be our authentic selves. Women can access their masculine side, and men can embrace their feminine side. This new freedom is a good thing, but it also brings new challenges. Men and women still need the right tools and skills to help build stronger relation- ships. While previous generations sought "role mate" relationships, based on the more rigid gender roles of the time, today's couples need a new kind of relationship: a "soul mate" relationship. These more emotionally satisfying relationships require a deeper understanding of our partners' individual needs. In Beyond Mars and Venus, Gray teaches you how to strengthen your bond and grow in love together, so you and your loved one can meet each other's needs in the best way possible, bringing you lasting happiness and a fulfilling partnership.