[PDF] Tokens Of Affection Objects Of Devotion eBook

Author : Anna Moran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 1472517180

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How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places and times. Addressing both designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of material culture, Love Objects explores a wide range of objects, from 19th-century American portraits displaying men's passionate friendships to the devotional and political meanings of religious statues in 1920s Ireland.

Author : Pamela S. Hammons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351934422

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An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collections”including the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyer”and situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of property and economic agents”in relation to material items ranging from personal property to real estate”despite the dominant patriarchal ideology insisting they were ideally temporary, passive vehicles for men's wealth. The study details how women imagined their multiple, complex interactions with the material world:the author shows that how a woman poet represents herself in relation to material objects is a flexible fiction she can mobilize for diverse purposes. Because this book analyzes men's and women's poems together, it isolates important gendered differences in how the poets envision human subjects' use, control, possession, and ownership of things and the influences, effects, and power of things over humans. It also adds to the increasing evidence for the pervasiveness of patriarchal anxieties associated with female economic agency in a culture in which women were often treated as objects.

Author : Charles H Spurgeon
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1603746854

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Daily Help Devotional directs you through each day of the year, touching and inspiring your faith and anchoring your soul to the Lord. These messages, along with key verses of Scripture, will bring you into fellowship with God in a remarkable way, guiding you in… Experiencing God’s direction Relieving tensions of the day Finding the peace that passes understanding Developing a stronger faith Knowing the mind of the Lord Spurgeon’s writings directly reflect God’s words and principles, while they convey his characteristic warmth and compassion. In only a few moments each day, these meditations will help those who are seeking intimacy with our Lord and want to discover the joy of dwelling daily with our Savior.