1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974573903321

Autore

Nhất Hạnh, Thích

Titolo

The blooming of a lotus : guided meditation for achieving the miracle of mindfulness / / Thich Nhat Hanh ; translated by Annabel Laity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, Mass., : Beacon Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8070-9748-9

Edizione

[Rev.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

revised.

Classificazione

BIB000000OCC000000SEL000000

Altri autori (Persone)

LaityAnnabel

Soggetti

Meditation - Buddhism

Meditation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Vietnamese.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Guided Meditation Exercises""; ""Chapter I: Mindfulness of the Body""; ""Chapter II: Images""; ""Chapter III: Mindful Consumption""; ""Chapter IV: Feelings and Mind""; ""Chapter V: Objects of Mind""; ""Chapter VI: Representing the Buddha""; ""Chapter VII: My Parents, Myself""; ""Appendix""

Sommario/riassunto

One of the world's great meditation teachers offers thirty-four guided exercises that will bring both beginning and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves, their families, and the world. Compassionate and wise, Thich Nhat Hanh's healing words help us acknowledge and dissolve anger and separation by illuminating the way toward the miracle of mindfulness.   From the Trade Paperback edition.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968842703321

Autore

Backscheider Paula R

Titolo

Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / / Paula R. Backscheider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, MD ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780801881695

0801881692

9780801895906

0801895901

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Disciplina

821/.5099287

Soggetti

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Authorship - Sex differences - History - 18th century

Invention (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century

Literary form - History - 18th century

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

Contents --  Acknowledgments --  Abbreviations --  Plan of the Book --  Approaching the Poetry --  The Chapters --  1 Introduction --  Changing Contexts --  Systems, Gender, and Persistent Issues --  Agency and the "Marked Marker" --  2 Anne Finch and What Women Wrote --  The Social and the Formal --  Anne Finch and Popular Poetry --  Poetry on Poetry --  The Spleen as Legacy --  3 Women and Poetry in the Public Eye --  Poetry as News and Critique --  The Woman Question --  Elizabeth Singer Rowe --  4 Hymns, Narratives, and Innovations in Religious Poetry --  The Voice of Paraphrase -- The Hymn as Personal Lyric --  Religious Poetry as Subversive Narrative --  Devout Soliloquies --  5 Friendship Poems --  The Legacy of Katherine Philips --  Encouragement and the Counteruniverse --  Jane Brereton --  Adaptation and Ideology --  6 Retirement Poetry --  Beyond Convention --  Memory, Time, and Elizabeth Carter --  Reflection and Difference --  7 The Elegy --  What Did Women Write? --  



Representative Composers: Darwall and Seward --  The Elegy and Same-Sex Desire --  Entertainment and Forgetting --  8 The Sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and What Women Wrote -- The Sonnet and the Political --  Sonnet Sequences --  Women Poets and the Spread of the Sonnet --  The Emigrants, Conversations, and Beachy Head --  Smith as Transitional Poet --  9 Conclusion --  Biographies of the Poets --  Notes --  Bibliography --  Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.