1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910160349703321

Autore

Raven Simon

Titolo

Troubadour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Looe, Cornwall, : House of Stratus, 2012

ISBN

0-7551-5399-5

0-7551-3004-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

First Born of Egypt ; ; v.7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page ; Author Page ; Simon Raven all Published by House of Stratus; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication Page ; Part One: The Oracle ; Part Two: The Interpreters ; Part Three: Two on a Tower; Part Four: Beau Sabreur ; Simon Raven; Morning Star; The Face of the Waters; Before the Cock Crow; New Seed For Old; Blood of My Bone; In the Image of God

Sommario/riassunto

'Where the twins had been a body lay in long, soft robes, and by its head a discarded lute. The head was split into halves from the apex of the skull to the nose'. Is this macabre scene only theatre, or a sign of ill omen? In the conclusion of the 'First Born of Egypt' saga, the fate of Conyngham, Marius Stern and other characters is decided.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967428803321

Autore

Burrus Virginia

Titolo

Seducing Augustine : bodies, desires, confessions / / Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010

ISBN

9780823231959

082323195X

9781441644756

144164475X

9780823248476

082324847X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

JordanMark D

MacKendrickKarmen <1962->

Disciplina

270.2092

Soggetti

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Seducing Augustine -- Contents -- Preface -- Seducing Augustine -- Introduction -- Secrets and Lies -- The Word , His Body -- Freedom in Submission -- No Time for Sex -- Conclusion -- Note s -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text.Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes-secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity.