Sexual personae [[electronic resource] ] Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson / / Camille Paglia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453133703321
• Autore: Paglia Camille <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1990
• ISBN: 0-300-18213-9; 1-283-95016-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (712 p.)
• Disciplina: 704.9/428
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature, Modern - History and criticism; Romanticism; Paganism in literature; Sex in literature; Decadence (Literary movement); Decadence in literature; Arts; Paganism in art; Sex in art; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I. Sex And Violence, Or Nature And Art -- Chapter 2. The Birth Of The Western Eye -- Chapter 3. Apollo And Dionysus -- Chapter 4. Pagan Beauty -- Chapter 5. Renaissance Form: Italian Art -- Chapter 6. Spenser And Apollo: The Faerie Queene -- Chapter 7. Shakespeare And Dionysus: As You Like It And Antony And Cleopatra -- Chapter 8. Return Of The Great Mother: Rousseau Vs. Sade -- Chapter 9. Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe To Gothic -- Chapter 10. Sex Bound And Unbound: Blake -- Chapter 11. Marriage To Mother Nature: Wordsworth -- Chapter 12. The Daemon As Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge -- Chapter 13. Speed And Space: Byron -- Chapter ; 14. Light And Heat: Shelley And Keats -- Chapter 15. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Balzac -- Chapter 16. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, And Huysmans -- Chapter 17. Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte -- Chapter 18. Romantic Shadows: Swinburne And Pater -- Chapter 19. Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art -- Chapter 20. The Beautiful Boy As Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray -- Chapter 21. The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest -- Chapter 22. American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville -- Chapter 23. American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James -- Chapter 24. Amherst's Madame De Sade: Emily Dickinson -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence. Paglia offers provocative views of literature, art history, psychology, and religion. She focuses, for example, on the amorality, voyeurism, and pornography in great art that have been ignored or glossed over by most critics. She discusses sex and nature as brutal daemonic forces, and she criticizes feminists for sentimentality or wishful thinking about the causes of rape, violence, and poor relations between the sexes. She stressed the biologic basis of sex differences and sees the mother as an overwhelming force who condemns men to lifelong sexual anxiety, from which they escape through rationalism and physical achievement. She examines the culture and style of modern male homosexuals. She demonstrates how much of western life, art, and thought is ruled by personality, which she traces through recurrent types or personae such as the female vampire (Medusa, Lauren Bacall); the pythoness (the Dephic oracle, Gracie Allen); the beautiful boy (Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray); the epicene man of beauty (Lord Byron, Elvis Presley); and the male heroine (Baudelaire, Woody Allen). Her book will stimulate and awe readers everywhere.

Copular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian / / Gábor Zólyomi ; managing editor, Katarzyna Grzegorek ; associate editor: Anna Borowska ; language editor, Allison Kirk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796457503321
• Autore: Zólyomi Gábor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Warsaw, [Poland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Open, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-040170-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: EM 1850
• Disciplina: 499/.955
• Soggetti: Sumerian language - Syntax
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Sumerian in a Nutshell -- 2 Non-verbal Predicates in Sumerian -- 3 A Typology of Sumerian Copular Clauses -- 4 Attributive Copular Biclausal Constructions -- 5 Specificational Copular Biclausal Constructions -- 6 Subordinate Clauses Followed by a Copula -- 7 Summary and Outlook -- References -- Index of Quoted Texts -- Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a thorough analysis of all uses of the copula, which is one of the least understood and most frequently misinterpreted and consequently mistranslated morphemes in Sumerian. It starts with a concise introduction into the grammatical structure of Sumerian, followed by a study that is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists, as it applies the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics. It provides the oldest known and documented example of the path of grammaticalization that leads from a copula to a focus marker. It gives the description of Sumerian copular paratactic relative clauses, which make use of an otherwise only scarcely attested relativization strategy. At the end of the book, the reader will have a clear picture about the morphological and syntactic devices used to mark identificational, polarity and sentence focus in Sumerian, one of ; the oldest documented languages in the world.