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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our
conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to
such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman
imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough
introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history,
visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity.
Examining how the Greeks and Romans interpreted what they saw, the
collection also considers sight in relation to the other senses.
This volume brings together a number of interdisciplinary
perspectives to deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this
subject. Contributors explore the cultural, social and intellectual
backdrops that gave rise to ancient theories of seeing, from
Archaic Greece through to the advent of Christianity in late
antiquity. This series of specially commissioned thematic chapters
demonstrate how theories about sight informed Graeco-Roman
philosophy, science, poetry rhetoric and art. The collection also
reaches beyond its Graeco-Roman visual framework, showcasing how
ancient ideas have influenced the longue duree of western sensory
thinking. Richly illustrated throughout, including a section of
color plates, Sight and the Ancient Senses is a wide-ranging
introduction to ancient theories of seeing which will be an
invaluable resource for students and scholars of classical
antiquity.
The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von
Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who
tested the capacityâand the limitsâof marriage. The Lawrences
come alive not as simple quarreling travelers, nor as blissful
domestic partners, but as complex personalities who experimented
with marriage to see if it would fulfill their needs. Their
antagonisms and their sexual experiences informed Lawrence's
fearless novels The Rainbow and Women in Love. Both works also
tested the boundaries of public taste and faced harsh receptions.
The cost of the Lawrences' strong but unstable marriage was high.
Despite periods of happiness and peace, angry clashes meant
separations and uneasy agreements to repair the marital intimacy
when it cracked. Fractures of 1916, 1919, 1923, and 1926 healed
slowly and with difficulty. In Lawrence's most calculated and
famous work, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he successfully coded their
marital stress and, full of rage, fused two stories of failed
marriages. Drawing on many unpublished and recently discovered
letters, The Limits of Love offers readers a detailed
reconstruction of two complicated lives, written with narrative
speed and a forceful style, filled with vivid interpretations of
Lawrence's work, and conveying deep sympathy for people living
outside established norms. This new dual biography, based on years
of research by Michael Squires, captures the essence of Lawrence
and Frieda, making the couple real, alive, and accessible.
It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our
conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to
such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman
imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough
introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history,
visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity.
Examining how the Greeks and Romans interpreted what they saw, the
collection also considers sight in relation to the other senses.
This volume brings together a number of interdisciplinary
perspectives to deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this
subject. Contributors explore the cultural, social and intellectual
backdrops that gave rise to ancient theories of seeing, from
Archaic Greece through to the advent of Christianity in late
antiquity. This series of specially commissioned thematic chapters
demonstrate how theories about sight informed Graeco-Roman
philosophy, science, poetry rhetoric and art. The collection also
reaches beyond its Graeco-Roman visual framework, showcasing how
ancient ideas have influenced the longue duree of western sensory
thinking. Richly illustrated throughout, including a section of
color plates, Sight and the Ancient Senses is a wide-ranging
introduction to ancient theories of seeing which will be an
invaluable resource for students and scholars of classical
antiquity.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Hardcover)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Michael Squires, Paul Poplawski; Introduction by Doris Lessing
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these
delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the
invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or
physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of
their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's
gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life
to her stifled existence. Can she find a true equality with
Mellors, despite the vast gulf between their positions in society?
One of the most controversial novels in English literature, Lady
Chatterley's Lover is an erotically charged and psychologically
powerful depiction of adult relationships.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Michael Squires, Paul Poplawski; Introduction by Doris Lessing
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Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's
Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and
forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her
sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World
War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or
physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man
of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver
Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she embarks on a
passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence.
Can she find true love with Mellors, despite the vast gulf between
their positions in society? One of the most controversial novels in
English literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover is an erotically
charged and psychologically powerful depiction of adult
relationships. In her introduction Doris Lessing discusses the
influence of Lawrence's sexual politics, his relationship with his
wife Frieda and his attitude towards the First World War. Using the
complete and restored text of the Cambridge edition, this volume
includes a new chronology and further reading by Paul Poplawski and
notes by Michael Squires. Edited with notes by Michael Squires and
an introduction by Doris Lessing. 'A brave and important book,
passionate and wildly ambitious' Independent on Sunday 'A
masterpiece' Guardian
Thoroughly revised and updated since its initial publication in
2010, the second edition of this gold standard guide for case
managers again helps readers enhance their ability to work with
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assessments, and to advocate for improved quality and safe care for
all patients. Much has happened since Integrated Case Management
(ICM), now Value-Based Integrated Case Management (VB-ICM), was
first introduced in the U.S. in 2010. The Integrated Case
Management Manual: Valued-Based Assistance to Complex Medical and
Behavioral Health Patients, 2nd Edition emphasizes the field has
now moved from "complexity assessments" to "outcome achievement"
for individuals/patients with health complexity. It also stresses
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process, which documents, analyzes, and reports the impact of
VB-ICM services in removing patient barriers to health improvement,
enhancing quality and care coordination, and lowering the financial
impact to patients, providers, and employer groups. Written by two
expert case managers who have used VB-ICM in their large fully
disseminated VB-ICM program and understand its practical deployment
and use, the second edition also includes two authors with
backgrounds as physician support personnel to case managers working
with complex individuals. This edition builds on the consolidation
of biopsychosocial and health system case management activities
that were emphasized in the first edition. A must-have resource for
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Patients, 2nd Edition is an essential reference for not only case
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D. H. Lawrence And Italy (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Michael Squires; Introduction by Anthony Burgess, Tim Parks
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In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence
transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.
Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the
people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to
the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina,
Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as
yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And
Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art,
the record of "a dying man drinking from the founts of a
civilization dedicated to life."
Thirteen essays that aim to illuminate the achievement of one of
England's greatest modern writers. Employing a variety of
perspectives - historical, cultural, theoretical, feminist - the
critics here assembled address concerns about Lawrence's work that
have emerged in recent years: his attitudes toward the working
class, art, women, Britain; his conceptions of male-female
relationships, sexuality, education and knowledge; and his place in
cultural history and the traditions of the English novel. All of
the essays - from reassessments of Lawrence's position in the
English literary tradition to analyses of his influence on recent
American poetry - find renewed faith in the challenge of Lawrence's
work, making this volume of interest to Lawrence scholars and
students.
In 1996, an unpublished author wrote about terrorists crashing
commercial aircraft into military facilities and public buildings.
Most pundits viewed the work as far fetched. Now we are not so
sure. "Michael did his research and found weaknesses in our way of
life that terrorists could exploit against our free society,"
explained a literary critic who has read the pre-published version.
The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the
5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most
fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental
people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their
'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him
they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the
modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness
struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom
- so often censured or repressed. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic
Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the
reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world
where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The
exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark
contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy -
at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards
tragedy. The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an
ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative
descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation.
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the
images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to
view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise,
classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for
taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role
of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the
relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of
more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal
analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing
devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting,
relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and
inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing
pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and
'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing -
one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames
could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images
contained within.
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the
images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to
view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise,
classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for
taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role
of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the
relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of
more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal
analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing
devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting,
relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and
inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing
pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and
'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing -
one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames
could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images
contained within.
The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been
much contested in recent years, from laments about the
'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial
turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book
recontextualises these debates through the historical lens of Greek
and Roman antiquity. Dr Squire shows how modern Western concepts of
'words' and 'pictures' derive from a post-Reformation tradition of
theology and aesthetics. Where modern critics assume a bipartite
separation between images and texts, classical antiquity toyed with
a more playful and engaged relation between the two. By using the
ancient world to rethink our own ideologies of the visual and the
verbal, this interdisciplinary book brings together classics and
art history, as well as a sustained reflection on their
historiography: the result is a new and explosive cultural history
of Western visual thinking.
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and
wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not
only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has
shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and
point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to
grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship
between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western
engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and
back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically,
Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a
lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich
array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our
world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series
of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of
cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure
of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural
landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our
aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire
argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern
thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual
illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art
history.
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and
wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not
only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has
shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and
point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to
grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship
between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western
engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and
back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically,
Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a
lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich
array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our
world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series
of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of
cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure
of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural
landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our
aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire
argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern
thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual
illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art
history.
The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been
much contested in recent years, from laments about the
'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial
turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book
recontextualises these debates through the historical lens of Greek
and Roman antiquity. Dr Squire shows how modern Western concepts of
'words' and 'pictures' derive from a post-Reformation tradition of
theology and aesthetics. Where modern critics assume a bipartite
separation between images and texts, classical antiquity toyed with
a more playful and engaged relation between the two. By using the
ancient world to rethink our own ideologies of the visual and the
verbal, this interdisciplinary book brings together classics and
art history, as well as a sustained reflection on their
historiography: the result is a new and explosive cultural history
of Western visual thinking.
Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography
of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first
to draw fully on Frieda's unpublished letters and on interviews
with people who knew her well. It explores their collision with an
industrial world they hated and chronicles the stormy relationship
between husband and wife. The strong sexual vitality that inspired
Lawrence's art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage. Here,
the Lawrences emerge as proud but not conceited in their
unconventional lives, staunch in the face of fierce opposition from
a conformist society.
"Living at the Edge" follows the separate lives of Lawrence and
Frieda up to their first meeting in 1912. Tracing their new life
together, it depicts their grateful escape from the English
Midlands; their discovery of exotic places where they made
temporary homes--Italy, Cornwall, Australia, New Mexico, and
Mexico; Lawrence's courageous battle against illness; and, after
his death in 1930, Frieda's success in recreating the simple life
on ranches near Taos, New Mexico, where she died in 1956.
At the center of their story is Lawrence's literary career.
Biographers Squires and Talbot see Lawrence's major novels--"The
Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover"--as a fresh way to
understand his turbulent and conflicted life. They reveal the
extreme care with which he rewrote his personal experience to
satisfy his deepest needs, and they introduce the many influential
people who entered the Lawrences' lives and work. The rich
materials from Frieda's letters reveal a different Lawrence--more
difficult as a man but more interesting as an artist; they also
reveal a different Frieda--more vibrant as a woman, more
substantial as a companion. This superb biography gives both
Lawrence and Frieda striking new dimensions.
The Cambridge edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover (and A Propos of
'Lady Chatterley's Lover') is the first ever to restore to
Lawrence's most famous novel the words that he wrote. It removes
typists' corruptions and compositors' errors, which have marred the
text for over sixty years, and includes hundreds of new words,
phrases and sentences - and thousands of changes in punctuation.
This text projects the sound of Lawrence's voice, embodies the
precision of his mature style and reveals the force of his
rhetorical power. The introduction establishes an accurate history
of composition, typing, printing, publication and reception; the
notes freshly identify dozens of difficult allusions; and the
appendix, an original essay, explains how Lawrence imaginatively
weaves real places and people into the fictional tapestry that he
creates. For students and scholars alike, the Cambridge text is the
only text of the novel that can be read or quoted with confidence.
Here is a new and imaginative approach to the era in which Western
civilization was born. "Panorama of the Classical World is a
thorough-and thoroughly accessible--synthesis of the Greek, Roman,
and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Geometric Greece
(ca. 700 B.C) to the rule of Constantine (early 4th century A.D.).
In ten thematically oriented chapters, the authors incorporate the
most important developments in recent scholarship, including ideas
of gender, erotics, war and pacifism, imperialism and dissent,
political propaganda, economy, cultural identity, racism, hygiene
and diet, and the public and private uses of space. The many
illustrations, selected for their geographical and chronological
diversity, range from the iconic to those never before published.
The book also highlights the modern relevance of classical
antiquity, from its influence on contemporary politics to the
representation of the female body in Western art. The final chapter
chronicles, and beautifully illustrates, the posthumous history of
classical civilization, and the reference section includes
biographies, an introduction to classical mythology, a glossary of
technical terms and vase shapes, timeline, map, bibliography, and
index.
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