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Dyrbington Court
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Intention and Text
The question of intention is central to the study of literature. How far can an author's intentions determine the meanings of his/her text? What do we mean by 'intention' in a literary context? What force does the reader's intention have in the construction of textual meaning? To what extent can a text itself be said to be 'intentional'? The aim of this book is to provide an in-depth analysis and critique of this concept of intention, its uses within the realms of literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of language, phenomenology and deconstruction, and its potential for redefinition. Mitchell sets out to re-think intention and interrogate the possibilities of an intentionalism more suited to a formalist or textualist critical methodology. She moves from an assessment of the pitfalls of a traditional authorial intentionalism, towards the formulation of an 'intentionality of form', where intention is seen as a formal attribute of the text itself
A Companion to Aesthetics
A COMPANION TO AESTHETICS This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and truth, and the criteria for interpretation, which are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary philosophy. In this extensively revised and updated edition...
The Sheikh's Wedding Series
Love and passion smolder beneath the desert sun… In the remote paradise of Ad Diwasul, three sexy sheikhs are determined to dodge an ancient prophecy demanding they each marry. But even as they strive to remain single, three beautiful American women make it impossible to escape fate. The desert’s about to get a whole lot hotter in this scorching Leslie North boxset! In The Sheikh’s Surprise Son, love wasn’t supposed to have anything do to with the marriage of Sheikh Hadi Toma and Willow, his son’s adoptive mother. But with a prophecy to fulfill and their undeniable attraction, these two lovers find an unexpected end to their unconventional courtship… In The Sheikh’s Pregnant Am...
The Sense of Creation
What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God, that is, that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the que...
Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship
This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself—its materials, its structures—as a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of understanding, regularly being “read” in “languages” which alienate it. Even if emotion seems a significant part of people’s engagement with dance, its workings are often surrounded by an air of mysticism. Engaging with these issues, this study investigates the experience of emotion in Euro-American contemporary dance theatre. It questions its dependence on the artist’s personal emotions, and the assumption that it is mediated by representational meaning. Instead, this book proposes that the emotional import of dance emerges from an interplay between perceptual properties and symbolic elements in an embodied affective cognitive experience. This experience includes the background of the spectator as well as the context of work, choreographer, performer(s) and other creative agents.
Sheikh’s One-Night Stand
Never mix duty and pleasure… Sheikh Ilyas Murad loves women, perhaps a little too much. But he’s only truly been in love with one: Tatiana Templeton. So when he bumps into her unexpectedly at a party, the two are swept up in the moment and spend a night of unbridled passion together. But two months later, Ilyas is shocked when his mother arrives at his door with an American dating coach in tow… Who just happens to be Tatiana! His mother hired her to help him settle down with the right woman. But Ilyas considers himself a dating expert. The last thing he needs is a woman he once loved helping him find a wife. Tatiana is between a rock and a hard place. Ilyas clearly wants her gone, forcing her to reveal another surprise. Their one-night stand left her pregnant. But she’s determined to do her job. She’ll find Ilyas a wife, and they can deal with all the baby stuff later… But when the prince suggests Tatiana as his bride, the beautiful American is torn. Is his proposal coming from the heart? Or his sense of royal duty…
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