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| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese William Jennings, 1891 |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Historic Beaumont Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley, 2003 An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies. |
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| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Book of Elven-Faerie Joshua Free, 2012-06-21 The Elvish Tradition brought to the light of the mortal world... for the first time ever! An authentic path to Druidism! The original underground bestselling masterpiece returns in a NEW updated, revised & expanded second edition! Book of Elven-Faerie: The Secrets of Dragon Kings, Druids, Wizards & The Pheryllt became the genesis of the modern 'Mardukite' movement when privately released by prolific visionary writer, Joshua Free, in 2006. This revolutionary and controversial compendium of lore and magic reveals many things including: * How ancient traditions of Mesopotamia (Sumerians, Babylonians, etc.) evolved into mystical, mythical and societal systems of Western Europe. * How the most arcane practices shaped the customs and beliefs of the Western World. * How modern folk magic can be traced back through the evolution of human civilization as carried by Druidic Tribes, the Tuatha de Dannan and ancient Anunnaki. An entire exploration into the Elven Way, Celtic Faerie Tradition and Danubian Druidism is offered -- such as never seen before. Drawing from hundreds of sources, a reconstructionist Elven-Faerie tradition and system paradigm is presented by critically acclaimed Mardukite Druid, Joshua Free, including two complete grimoires that bring the magic and enchantment of nature, the elemental world, astral plane and woodlands to life. Book of Elven-Faerie actually restores the historical basis of the modern 'New Age' movement, resulting from one seeker's pursuits into the origins of the 'Druids'. This compendium includes: Druids of the Deep, The Elven-Faerie Grimoire and The Greenwood Forest Grimoire. [Mardukite Catalog Designation: Liber-D (Year-0)] Also in this series: - Draconomicon by Joshua Free - Druidry by Joshua Free |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Songs The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley, 2011 First published in 1937. The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old Chinese. The result is not merely a clear picture of early Chinese life, but also the restoration to its proper place in world literature of one of the finest collection of traditional songs. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Cherries In The Snow Emma Forrest, 2014-10-08 ____________ 'Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful' - Independent 'A literary Lolita' - Vanity Fair 'Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean' - Ethan Hawke 'A gorgeous novel' - Julie Burchill ____________ In Sadie's head, she's a novelist. In real life, she spends her day searching for the ultimate way to say red at Grrl, an ultra hip make-up company. In her sex life, she's a modern-day Lolita who's never dated a man under forty. Then Sadie falls in love with Marley, a graffiti artist with a firm commitment to another woman: his eight-year-old daughter, Montana. Sadie isn't used to competing for a man's affections and certainly not with a little girl who is uncannily like herself. Real love could just be too grown up for her... Cherries in the Snow is a novel about womanhood, love, and lipstick. Flippant, sexy, acid and smart, this is Emma Forrest at her most dazzling. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Thin Skin Emma Forrest, 2007-11-01 From the author dubbed a literary Lolita by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper when she was just twenty-one. Everyone thinks Ruby is beautiful except for Ruby, who is so hell-bent on being ugly that she's driven away the man who loves her, the agent who swears he could have made her a star, and the delectable male costar of her latest project, Mean People Suck. After all, Ruby believes that what's going on outside should reflect what's on the inside -- and inside she's a mess. Burned-out at the age of twenty, she's living alone in a world of hotels and fast food -- none of which she keeps down -- haunted by the memory of her childhood love, cutting herself, and tempted to repeat her mother's tragic fate. She needs to find a new way of being....and fast. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Necronomicon Joshua Free, 2014-07-20 The Necronomicon of Mesopotamia... Sumerians... Star-Gates of Babylon... The Anunnaki... Ancient Alien Gods... Here is the definitive work in its much anticipated 5th Anniversary revised and expanded 6th edition; the primary source book of the Mardukite Chamberlains Research Organization uncovered from their first active year of research and development in 2009! The 'Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible' is a masterpiece of Mesopotamian Mardukite magick and spirituality providing the most complete collection of Sumerian and Babylonian accounts of human history and civilization in one book, composing in itself a 'bible' and actually proving to be the predecessor and basis of global scripture-based religious traditions thereafter. These are the raw underground materials have shaped the existence of man's beliefs and practices for thousands of years; right from the heart of Sumer, Babylon and Egypt! Studies include the Mardukite inception within Akkadian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Yezidi and Zoroastrian traditions also! This enlarged Sixth Edition includes the complete Maqlu Text recently translated for the separate volume Maqlu Magic or Necronomicon Spellbook II in addition to several other unique updates from previous editions! This 2014 large-format 5th Anniversary edition presents the original Liber N 'Necronomicon of Joshua Free' in addition to its three companion works from 2009 that were only released to the underground and members of Mardukite Ministries as well as newer materials from Liber C (Tablet-U and Tablet-V cycles) in addition to all tablets from the Book of Marduk by Nabu and also the Book of Sajaha-the-Seer (released in 2013 as Sumerian Wisdom & Anunnaki Prophecies). Nearly 600 large easy-to-read pages guide you through a huge collection of raw historical, spiritual and mystical research drawn from archaeological findings; enough to support a very real Mardukite Necronomicon Anunnaki revival tradition! Join the now thousands of others who have enjoyed the best of what the next generation has to offer in the most amazing, revolutionary volume you'll ever read! |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Pheryllt: A Complete Druid Source Book Joshua Free, 2021-12-30 The Book of Pheryllt by Joshua Free is a compilation of legendary proportions to deliver the virtually impossible-a complete collection of esoteric Pheryllt fragments scattered across history, gathered into a single coherent source. This compilation is now accessible to all modern Druid practitioners, for the first time in one single Tome. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Chick Lit and Postfeminism Stephanie Harzewski, 2011 The author offers a scholarly dissection of chick lit from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these works say about women in society and whether they are just an escape or a serious reflection of women's concerns. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Namedropper Emma Forrest, 2014-10-08 Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ... |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Postfemininities in Popular Culture Stéphanie Genz, 2009-03-31 Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Interfaces Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, 2002 Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life Katherine Duncan-Jones, 2014-09-26 '[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age... ' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the best Shakespearean biography of the new century' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph This major biography of Shakespeare was first published in 2001 to great critical acclaim. It remains highly regarded and much cited by critics and scholars. Its author, Katherine Duncan Jones was an advisor to William Boyd for his film about Shakespeare's life (A Waste of Shame). The book shows Shakespeare as a man among men and a writer among writers. He lives in a congested city, where he encounters disease, debt and cut-throat competition. His brilliance often makes him the object of envy and malice rather than adulation. He is a shrewd purchaser of property and shows no inclination to divert any of his wealth to charitable or altruistic ends. He appears to be more interested in relationships with well-born young men than with women. Duncan Jones takes us through the complexities of life in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England in a compelling well-told story. For this paperback reissue, the author has written a new Preface, detailing some of the recent debates about Shakespeare's biography and identity. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert, 2010-11-02 A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell. The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily? |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Chick Lit Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young, 2013-03-07 From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, chick lit has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker chick to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as Sistah Lit, Mommy Lit, and Chick Lit Jr., as well as regional variations. As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: War Gothic in Literature and Culture Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2015-12-07 In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the crucible from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of others, psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: This Is Not Chick Lit Elizabeth Merrick, 2006-08 Publisher Description |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Dying Animal Philip Roth, 2001-05-18 David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an emancipated manhood, beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, a masterpiece of volupté undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America’s post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England Naomi Tadmor, 2001-11-01 This 2001 book concerns the history of the family in eighteenth-century England. Naomi Tadmor provides an interpretation of concepts of household, family and kinship starting from her analysis of contemporary language (in the diaries of Thomas Turner; in conduct treatises by Samuel Richardson and Eliza Haywood; in three novels, Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa and Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and a variety of other sources). Naomi Tadmor emphasises the importance of the household in constructing notions of the family in the eighteenth century. She uncovers a vibrant language of kinship which recasts our understanding of kinship ties in the period. She also shows how strong ties of 'friendship' formed vital social, economic and political networks among kin and non-kin. Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England makes a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century history, and will be of value to all historians and literary scholars of the period. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Not Married, Not Bothered Carol Clewlow, 2009-01-19 Witty and highly entertaining take on being single. Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley. From the author of A Woman’s Guide to Adultery. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Body Gothic Xavier Aldana Reyes, 2014-10-15 The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos. Each chapter in Body Gothic is dedicated to a different corporeal subgenre: splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror are all covered in its pages. Close readings of key texts by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Joseph D'Lacey, Matthew Stokoe, Tony White or Stanley Manly are provided alongside in-depth analyses of landmark films such as Re-Animator (1985), The Fly (1986), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Human Centipede (2011) and American Mary (2012). |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: 'Tis Nature's Fault Robert P. Maccubbin, 1987 This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Bronze Age cultures in Central and Eastern Europe Marija Gimbutas, 2011-08-25 |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature Jolene Zigarovich, 2013-05-02 This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the relationship between sex, death, history, and eighteenth-century culture, but is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of perspectives and methodologies previously unseen. As the contributors demonstrate, eighteenth-century anxieties over mortality, the body, the soul, and the corpse inspired many writers of the time to both implicitly and explicitly embed mortality and sexuality within their works. By depicting the necrophilic tendencies of libertines and rapacious villains, the fetishizing of death and mourning by virtuous heroines, or the fantasy of preserving the body, these authors demonstrate not only the tragic results of sexual play, but the persistent fantasy of necro-erotica. This book shows that within the eighteenth-century culture of profound modern change, underworkings of death and mourning are often eroticized; that sex is often equated with death (as punishment, or loss of the self); and that the sex-death dialectic lies at the discursive center of normative conceptions of gender, desire, and social power. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Unnatural Affections George E. Haggerty, 1998 Author George Haggerty examines the unnatural affections that flout cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affections abound in 18th-century novels, offering a complex understanding of the role of gender and the articulation of female desire during the age in which women novel writers came into their own. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Body and Physical Difference David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, 1997 Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: A New Companion to The Gothic David Punter, 2015-09-08 The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness T. Khair, 2009-11-04 Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Brontë, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on Otherness, difference and identity, re-examines the role of emotions in literature, and suggests productive ways of engaging with contemporary global and postcolonial issues. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Blots Stubba, 2014-11-18 The original and genuine Book of Blots of the Odinic Rite inherits the rich and formal qualities of English ritual language. It derives, ultimately, from times when poetry was mantic and widely used for magical purposes. Now, as in the elder days, it introduces, interprets and celebrates within a spiritual context the events and seasons of life and of the natural year. The fully revised and updated second edition of The Book of Blots provides a comprehensive celebration of the events and seasons of the Odinist year. This classic handbook is now re-issued for the guidance of all heathens. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory Sarah Dillon, 2014-01-30 Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor. Sarah Dillon's original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which illuminates and advances modern thought. While demonstrating how this structure refigures concepts such as history, subjectivity, temporality, metaphor, textuality and sexuality, Dillon returns repeatedly to the question of reading. This theorisation is interwoven with close readings of texts by D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Ian McEwan and H.D. Clearly written, and negotiating a range of critical theories and modern literary texts, it provides a reference point and critical tool for future employment of the concept of 'palimpsestuousness', and makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the relationship between theoretical and critical writing on literature. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Materialism Terry Eagleton, 2017-02-07 A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today’s important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates. The author reveals entirely fresh ways of considering the values and beliefs of three very different materialists—Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein—drawing striking comparisons between their philosophies while reflecting on a wide array of topics, from ideology and history to language, ethics, and the aesthetic. Cogently demonstrating how it is our bodies and corporeal activity that make thought and consciousness possible, Eagleton’s book is a valuable exposition on philosophic thought that strikes to the heart of how we think about ourselves and live in the world. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Monsters in the Closet Harry M. Benshoff, 1997-11-15 Monster in the Closet is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies, the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in relation to various medical, psychological, religious and social models of homosexuality. While recent work within gay and lesbian studies has explored how the genetic tropes of the horror film intersect with popular culture's understanding of queerness, this is the first book to examine how the concept of the monster queer has evolved from era to era. From the gay and lesbian sensibilities encoded into the form and content of the classical Hollywood horror film, to recent films which play upon AIDS-related fears. Monster in the Closet examines how the horror film started and continues, to demonize (or quite literally monsterize) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be both for individual spectators and culture at large. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Cult of Othin H. M. Chadwick, 2013-01-03 Originally published in 1899, this concise book provides a series of essays on the Ancient Germanic cult of Woden. The text focuses on the characteristics and rites associated with the cult, as opposed to the more frequently discussed mythology associated with Woden. Questions are posed regarding the organisational structure of the cult and the places in which it was practiced. An authorial introduction and extensive textual notes are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Germanic paganism and pre-Christian religion. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2013-04-28 Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its limits. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James all shared a concern with the political and ideological debates of their time, but tended to approach these debates indirectly. Thus, Monnet suggests, while slavery and race are not the explicit subject matter of antebellum works by Poe and Hawthorne, they nevertheless permeate it through suggestive analogies and tacit references. Similarly, Melville, Gilman, and James use the gothic to explore the categories of gender and sexuality that were being renegotiated during the latter half of the century. Focusing on The Fall of the House of Usher, The Marble Faun, Pierre, The Turn of the Screw, and The Yellow Wallpaper, Monnet brings to bear minor texts by the same authors that further enrich her innovative readings of these canonical works. At the same time, her study persuasively argues that the Gothic's endurance and ubiquity are in large part related to its being uniquely adapted to rehearse questions about judgment and justice that continue to fascinate and disturb. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Gothic Subjects Sian Silyn Roberts, 2014-05-22 Beginning in the 1790s, North American readers developed an appetite for the gothic novel, as imported, reprinted, and pirated editions of British and European romances flooded the market alongside homegrown works. In Gothic Subjects, Siân Silyn Roberts accounts for the sudden and considerable appeal of the gothic during this period by contending that it prepared a culturally diverse American readership to think of itself as part of a transatlantic world through which goods, people, and information could circulate. By putting gothic literature in dialogue with the writings of Locke, Hume, Reid, Smith, Rousseau, and other major figures of the European Enlightenment, Silyn Roberts shows how the early American novel participated in the process of revising and transforming the figure of the modern individual for a fluid, contingent Atlantic population. Exploring works of fiction by Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Wells Brown, among others, Silyn Roberts argues that the gothic helped post-Revolutionary readers to think of themselves as political subjects. By reading the emergence of a national literary style in terms of its appropriation and reinterpretation of British cultural forms, Gothic Subjects situates itself at the crux of several important issues in American literary history: transatlantic literary relations, the connection between literature and political philosophy, the paradoxes of sovereign power, and the form of the novel. In doing so, Gothic Subjects powerfully rethinks some of our previous assumptions about the cultural work of the American gothic tradition. |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Old English Baron Clara Reeve, 1816 |
| bloodline heroes of lithas marriage guide: Grove and Gallows James Chisholm, 2018-12-02 Translations of the major sources for Germanic religion and religious practices drawn from Greek and Latin sources. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese William Jennings, 1891 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Historic Beaumont Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley, 2003 An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie Dai, 2006 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: A Book of Troth Edred Thorsson, 2011-03 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Citybook 1 Larry DiTillio, 1982 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Book of Elven-Faerie Joshua Free, 2012-06-21 The Elvish Tradition brought to the light of the mortal world... for the first time ever! An authentic path to Druidism! The original underground bestselling masterpiece returns in a NEW updated, revised & expanded second edition! Book of Elven-Faerie: The Secrets of Dragon Kings, Druids, Wizards & The Pheryllt became the genesis of the modern 'Mardukite' movement when privately released by prolific visionary writer, Joshua Free, in 2006. This revolutionary and controversial compendium of lore and magic reveals many things including: * How ancient traditions of Mesopotamia (Sumerians, Babylonians, etc.) evolved into mystical, mythical and societal systems of Western Europe. * How the most arcane practices shaped the customs and beliefs of the Western World. * How modern folk magic can be traced back through the evolution of human civilization as carried by Druidic Tribes, the Tuatha de Dannan and ancient Anunnaki. An entire exploration into the Elven Way, Celtic Faerie Tradition and Danubian Druidism is offered -- such as never seen before. Drawing from hundreds of sources, a reconstructionist Elven-Faerie tradition and system paradigm is presented by critically acclaimed Mardukite Druid, Joshua Free, including two complete grimoires that bring the magic and enchantment of nature, the elemental world, astral plane and woodlands to life. Book of Elven-Faerie actually restores the historical basis of the modern 'New Age' movement, resulting from one seeker's pursuits into the origins of the 'Druids'. This compendium includes: Druids of the Deep, The Elven-Faerie Grimoire and The Greenwood Forest Grimoire. [Mardukite Catalog Designation: Liber-D (Year-0)] Also in this series: - Draconomicon by Joshua Free - Druidry by Joshua Free |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Songs The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley, 2011 First published in 1937. The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old Chinese. The result is not merely a clear picture of early Chinese life, but also the restoration to its proper place in world literature of one of the finest collection of traditional songs. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Cherries In The Snow Emma Forrest, 2014-10-08 ____________ 'Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful' - Independent 'A literary Lolita' - Vanity Fair 'Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean' - Ethan Hawke 'A gorgeous novel' - Julie Burchill ____________ In Sadie's head, she's a novelist. In real life, she spends her day searching for the ultimate way to say red at Grrl, an ultra hip make-up company. In her sex life, she's a modern-day Lolita who's never dated a man under forty. Then Sadie falls in love with Marley, a graffiti artist with a firm commitment to another woman: his eight-year-old daughter, Montana. Sadie isn't used to competing for a man's affections and certainly not with a little girl who is uncannily like herself. Real love could just be too grown up for her... Cherries in the Snow is a novel about womanhood, love, and lipstick. Flippant, sexy, acid and smart, this is Emma Forrest at her most dazzling. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Thin Skin Emma Forrest, 2007-11-01 From the author dubbed a literary Lolita by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper when she was just twenty-one. Everyone thinks Ruby is beautiful except for Ruby, who is so hell-bent on being ugly that she's driven away the man who loves her, the agent who swears he could have made her a star, and the delectable male costar of her latest project, Mean People Suck. After all, Ruby believes that what's going on outside should reflect what's on the inside -- and inside she's a mess. Burned-out at the age of twenty, she's living alone in a world of hotels and fast food -- none of which she keeps down -- haunted by the memory of her childhood love, cutting herself, and tempted to repeat her mother's tragic fate. She needs to find a new way of being....and fast. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Necronomicon Joshua Free, 2014-07-20 The Necronomicon of Mesopotamia... Sumerians... Star-Gates of Babylon... The Anunnaki... Ancient Alien Gods... Here is the definitive work in its much anticipated 5th Anniversary revised and expanded 6th edition; the primary source book of the Mardukite Chamberlains Research Organization uncovered from their first active year of research and development in 2009! The 'Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible' is a masterpiece of Mesopotamian Mardukite magick and spirituality providing the most complete collection of Sumerian and Babylonian accounts of human history and civilization in one book, composing in itself a 'bible' and actually proving to be the predecessor and basis of global scripture-based religious traditions thereafter. These are the raw underground materials have shaped the existence of man's beliefs and practices for thousands of years; right from the heart of Sumer, Babylon and Egypt! Studies include the Mardukite inception within Akkadian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Yezidi and Zoroastrian traditions also! This enlarged Sixth Edition includes the complete Maqlu Text recently translated for the separate volume Maqlu Magic or Necronomicon Spellbook II in addition to several other unique updates from previous editions! This 2014 large-format 5th Anniversary edition presents the original Liber N 'Necronomicon of Joshua Free' in addition to its three companion works from 2009 that were only released to the underground and members of Mardukite Ministries as well as newer materials from Liber C (Tablet-U and Tablet-V cycles) in addition to all tablets from the Book of Marduk by Nabu and also the Book of Sajaha-the-Seer (released in 2013 as Sumerian Wisdom & Anunnaki Prophecies). Nearly 600 large easy-to-read pages guide you through a huge collection of raw historical, spiritual and mystical research drawn from archaeological findings; enough to support a very real Mardukite Necronomicon Anunnaki revival tradition! Join the now thousands of others who have enjoyed the best of what the next generation has to offer in the most amazing, revolutionary volume you'll ever read! |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Pheryllt: A Complete Druid Source Book Joshua Free, 2021-12-30 The Book of Pheryllt by Joshua Free is a compilation of legendary proportions to deliver the virtually impossible-a complete collection of esoteric Pheryllt fragments scattered across history, gathered into a single coherent source. This compilation is now accessible to all modern Druid practitioners, for the first time in one single Tome. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Chick Lit and Postfeminism Stephanie Harzewski, 2011 The author offers a scholarly dissection of chick lit from a post-feminist perspective. She analyzes the novel Bridget Jones' Diary and the HBO series Sex and the City while making parallels back to writings of Jane Austen and the Victorian novel in general. She looks at what these works say about women in society and whether they are just an escape or a serious reflection of women's concerns. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Namedropper Emma Forrest, 2014-10-08 Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ... |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Postfemininities in Popular Culture Stéphanie Genz, 2009-03-31 Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Interfaces Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, 2002 Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life Katherine Duncan-Jones, 2014-09-26 '[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age... ' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the best Shakespearean biography of the new century' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph This major biography of Shakespeare was first published in 2001 to great critical acclaim. It remains highly regarded and much cited by critics and scholars. Its author, Katherine Duncan Jones was an advisor to William Boyd for his film about Shakespeare's life (A Waste of Shame). The book shows Shakespeare as a man among men and a writer among writers. He lives in a congested city, where he encounters disease, debt and cut-throat competition. His brilliance often makes him the object of envy and malice rather than adulation. He is a shrewd purchaser of property and shows no inclination to divert any of his wealth to charitable or altruistic ends. He appears to be more interested in relationships with well-born young men than with women. Duncan Jones takes us through the complexities of life in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England in a compelling well-told story. For this paperback reissue, the author has written a new Preface, detailing some of the recent debates about Shakespeare's biography and identity. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert, 2010-11-02 A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell. The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily? |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Chick Lit Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young, 2013-03-07 From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, chick lit has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker chick to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as Sistah Lit, Mommy Lit, and Chick Lit Jr., as well as regional variations. As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: War Gothic in Literature and Culture Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2015-12-07 In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the crucible from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of others, psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: This Is Not Chick Lit Elizabeth Merrick, 2006-08 Publisher Description |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Dying Animal Philip Roth, 2001-05-18 David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an emancipated manhood, beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, a masterpiece of volupté undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America’s post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England Naomi Tadmor, 2001-11-01 This 2001 book concerns the history of the family in eighteenth-century England. Naomi Tadmor provides an interpretation of concepts of household, family and kinship starting from her analysis of contemporary language (in the diaries of Thomas Turner; in conduct treatises by Samuel Richardson and Eliza Haywood; in three novels, Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa and Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and a variety of other sources). Naomi Tadmor emphasises the importance of the household in constructing notions of the family in the eighteenth century. She uncovers a vibrant language of kinship which recasts our understanding of kinship ties in the period. She also shows how strong ties of 'friendship' formed vital social, economic and political networks among kin and non-kin. Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England makes a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century history, and will be of value to all historians and literary scholars of the period. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Not Married, Not Bothered Carol Clewlow, 2009-01-19 Witty and highly entertaining take on being single. Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley. From the author of A Woman’s Guide to Adultery. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Body Gothic Xavier Aldana Reyes, 2014-10-15 The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos. Each chapter in Body Gothic is dedicated to a different corporeal subgenre: splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror are all covered in its pages. Close readings of key texts by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Joseph D'Lacey, Matthew Stokoe, Tony White or Stanley Manly are provided alongside in-depth analyses of landmark films such as Re-Animator (1985), The Fly (1986), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Human Centipede (2011) and American Mary (2012). |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: 'Tis Nature's Fault Robert P. Maccubbin, 1987 This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Bronze Age cultures in Central and Eastern Europe Marija Gimbutas, 2011-08-25 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature Jolene Zigarovich, 2013-05-02 This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the relationship between sex, death, history, and eighteenth-century culture, but is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of perspectives and methodologies previously unseen. As the contributors demonstrate, eighteenth-century anxieties over mortality, the body, the soul, and the corpse inspired many writers of the time to both implicitly and explicitly embed mortality and sexuality within their works. By depicting the necrophilic tendencies of libertines and rapacious villains, the fetishizing of death and mourning by virtuous heroines, or the fantasy of preserving the body, these authors demonstrate not only the tragic results of sexual play, but the persistent fantasy of necro-erotica. This book shows that within the eighteenth-century culture of profound modern change, underworkings of death and mourning are often eroticized; that sex is often equated with death (as punishment, or loss of the self); and that the sex-death dialectic lies at the discursive center of normative conceptions of gender, desire, and social power. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Unnatural Affections George E. Haggerty, 1998 Author George Haggerty examines the unnatural affections that flout cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affections abound in 18th-century novels, offering a complex understanding of the role of gender and the articulation of female desire during the age in which women novel writers came into their own. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Body and Physical Difference David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, 1997 Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: A New Companion to The Gothic David Punter, 2015-09-08 The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness T. Khair, 2009-11-04 Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Brontë, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on Otherness, difference and identity, re-examines the role of emotions in literature, and suggests productive ways of engaging with contemporary global and postcolonial issues. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Book of Blots Stubba, 2014-11-18 The original and genuine Book of Blots of the Odinic Rite inherits the rich and formal qualities of English ritual language. It derives, ultimately, from times when poetry was mantic and widely used for magical purposes. Now, as in the elder days, it introduces, interprets and celebrates within a spiritual context the events and seasons of life and of the natural year. The fully revised and updated second edition of The Book of Blots provides a comprehensive celebration of the events and seasons of the Odinist year. This classic handbook is now re-issued for the guidance of all heathens. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory Sarah Dillon, 2014-01-30 Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor. Sarah Dillon's original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which illuminates and advances modern thought. While demonstrating how this structure refigures concepts such as history, subjectivity, temporality, metaphor, textuality and sexuality, Dillon returns repeatedly to the question of reading. This theorisation is interwoven with close readings of texts by D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Ian McEwan and H.D. Clearly written, and negotiating a range of critical theories and modern literary texts, it provides a reference point and critical tool for future employment of the concept of 'palimpsestuousness', and makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the relationship between theoretical and critical writing on literature. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Materialism Terry Eagleton, 2017-02-07 A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today’s important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates. The author reveals entirely fresh ways of considering the values and beliefs of three very different materialists—Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein—drawing striking comparisons between their philosophies while reflecting on a wide array of topics, from ideology and history to language, ethics, and the aesthetic. Cogently demonstrating how it is our bodies and corporeal activity that make thought and consciousness possible, Eagleton’s book is a valuable exposition on philosophic thought that strikes to the heart of how we think about ourselves and live in the world. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Monsters in the Closet Harry M. Benshoff, 1997-11-15 Monster in the Closet is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies, the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in relation to various medical, psychological, religious and social models of homosexuality. While recent work within gay and lesbian studies has explored how the genetic tropes of the horror film intersect with popular culture's understanding of queerness, this is the first book to examine how the concept of the monster queer has evolved from era to era. From the gay and lesbian sensibilities encoded into the form and content of the classical Hollywood horror film, to recent films which play upon AIDS-related fears. Monster in the Closet examines how the horror film started and continues, to demonize (or quite literally monsterize) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be both for individual spectators and culture at large. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Cult of Othin H. M. Chadwick, 2013-01-03 Originally published in 1899, this concise book provides a series of essays on the Ancient Germanic cult of Woden. The text focuses on the characteristics and rites associated with the cult, as opposed to the more frequently discussed mythology associated with Woden. Questions are posed regarding the organisational structure of the cult and the places in which it was practiced. An authorial introduction and extensive textual notes are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Germanic paganism and pre-Christian religion. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, 2013-04-28 Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its limits. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James all shared a concern with the political and ideological debates of their time, but tended to approach these debates indirectly. Thus, Monnet suggests, while slavery and race are not the explicit subject matter of antebellum works by Poe and Hawthorne, they nevertheless permeate it through suggestive analogies and tacit references. Similarly, Melville, Gilman, and James use the gothic to explore the categories of gender and sexuality that were being renegotiated during the latter half of the century. Focusing on The Fall of the House of Usher, The Marble Faun, Pierre, The Turn of the Screw, and The Yellow Wallpaper, Monnet brings to bear minor texts by the same authors that further enrich her innovative readings of these canonical works. At the same time, her study persuasively argues that the Gothic's endurance and ubiquity are in large part related to its being uniquely adapted to rehearse questions about judgment and justice that continue to fascinate and disturb. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Gothic Subjects Sian Silyn Roberts, 2014-05-22 Beginning in the 1790s, North American readers developed an appetite for the gothic novel, as imported, reprinted, and pirated editions of British and European romances flooded the market alongside homegrown works. In Gothic Subjects, Siân Silyn Roberts accounts for the sudden and considerable appeal of the gothic during this period by contending that it prepared a culturally diverse American readership to think of itself as part of a transatlantic world through which goods, people, and information could circulate. By putting gothic literature in dialogue with the writings of Locke, Hume, Reid, Smith, Rousseau, and other major figures of the European Enlightenment, Silyn Roberts shows how the early American novel participated in the process of revising and transforming the figure of the modern individual for a fluid, contingent Atlantic population. Exploring works of fiction by Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Wells Brown, among others, Silyn Roberts argues that the gothic helped post-Revolutionary readers to think of themselves as political subjects. By reading the emergence of a national literary style in terms of its appropriation and reinterpretation of British cultural forms, Gothic Subjects situates itself at the crux of several important issues in American literary history: transatlantic literary relations, the connection between literature and political philosophy, the paradoxes of sovereign power, and the form of the novel. In doing so, Gothic Subjects powerfully rethinks some of our previous assumptions about the cultural work of the American gothic tradition. |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: The Old English Baron Clara Reeve, 1816 |
| bloodline: heroes of lithas marriage guide: Grove and Gallows James Chisholm, 2018-12-02 Translations of the major sources for Germanic religion and religious practices drawn from Greek and Latin sources. |
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From the creators of "Damages," "Bloodline" is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns...
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