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A Severed Head
Author | : Iris Murdoch,John Boynton Priestley |
Publsiher | : Samuel French , Limited |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2015-09-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0573015279 |
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JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men
Severed
Author | : Frances Larson |
Publsiher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847088017 |
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Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.
The Severed Head
Author | : Julia Kristeva |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art, European |
ISBN | : 9780231157209 |
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Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
The Beginning of Everything
Author | : Robyn Schneider |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780062217158 |
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Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe. As Kirkus said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels." Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel—a heart-wrenching story about how difficult it is to play the part that people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings.
Tales of a Severed Head
Author | : Rachida Madani |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780300176285 |
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A brilliant retelling of the classic Arab tale of Scheherazade, set in the present day
The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue
Author | : Patricia Palmer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107041844 |
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This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.
A Severed Head
Author | : Iris Murdoch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:985358877 |
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Assembly of the Severed Head
Author | : Hugh Lupton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0992946050 |
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