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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Lilith"”.
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George MacDonald's Lilith A: A Transcription
George MacDonald's last major work of fiction, Lilith, was published in 1895, but the first version of the romance was written in March of 1890. Lilith is an account of the unintentional journey of the protagonist into another world populated by both mythological figures drawn from the …
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Receiving "The true name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision.
George MacDonald's penultimate novel, Lilith, has puzzled readers and critics alike with its strange symbolism and seemingly chaotic dreams. One's comprehension of the novel ultimately hinges upon the right interpretation of dreams. Those who ignore or gloss over the dream sequence as a mere plot …
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Woman Has Two Faces: Re-Examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought
… a viable example of women's identities. Instead, Lilith, the independent, "demon" and "first wife" of Adam is praised as a symbol of female sexuality for "Transformationist" Jewish feminists. Re-claiming Lilith as the "first Eve," "Transformationist" Jewish feminists turn scripture on its head. …
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Nightfall
… <em>Hush, Hush. </em>After sixteen-year-old Lilith attends a party full of vampires, she learns her angel blood is an irresistible delicacy. Torn between vampire brothers Nox and Sol, Lilith must make the life changing decision to stay human or change into a vampire and live between the …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
… <em>Alec Forbes of Howglen</em>, and <em>Lilith </em>engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive evaluation of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and Calvinism, an endorsement of …
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Between Two Worlds
… But what of the Wicked Queen, here known as Lilith? She too feels the bite of the world’s sick sense of humor, exacting revenge on those who have wronged her. Are these poems about them? Or are they about the author? Perhaps they are both: the innocent children learn quickly of life’s …
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Scordatura on the Classical Guitar: Implications for Practice and Performance
… more specific focus through four case studies: Lilith Guégmian’s Dans le Souffle du Temps, Bryan Johanson’s A Dog from Every Town, Gary Ryan’s Out of Clonmel and Richard Charlton’s Sonata of Forgotten Dreams. The project culminates in two one-hour recitals and an accompanying 7,500-word exegesis.
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Framing Femininity as Insanity: Representations of Mental Illness in Women in Post-Classical Hollywood
… (The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Lizzie (1957), Lilith (1964), Repulsion (1965), Images (1972) and 3 Women (1977)) demonstrates the societal tendency to label a woman's behavior as mad when it does not fit within the patriarchal mold of how a woman should behave. In addition to discussing the …
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Daughters of the Sun (Excerpted)
… around them, women whom history chose to vilify—Lilith, Adam’s first wife who was written out of the Bible; Mary the “Virgin” Mother; and Mary Magdalene. This is the Gospel they didn’t want you to know. This is the Gospel she has been waiting two thousand years to tell.</p>
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Interferencias entre el arte y lo político: reflexiones sobre lo común desde las prácticas de creación y de resistencia
… se entrevistó a las colectivas: Las Herederas de Lilith, Teatro en Movimiento Callejerx y Feministes de Gràcia, con el objetivo de establecer un diálogo que cruzara teoría y práctica, en torno al concepto de lo común. De este modo, se podría observar el trabajo de colectivos artísticos que, desde …
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Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure
… By weaving together my stories with Lilith and Ursula, I examine how fatness and failure create a new branch of queer failure that examines how they are linked in a way that provides possibilities for revolution instead of despair.</p>
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The Impact of transgenerational trauma on conflict dynamics: a case study of the Israel-Palestine conflict
This paper explores the effects of transgenerational trauma induced by conflict, with a specific focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict as a case study. Studies have shown that the decade-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians caused both sides to experience transgenerational trauma. …
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Lunetas para Espaço Aberto: uma atriz em travessia poiética com Imagens
… os duplos da atriz em cena: Suzana, Kassandra e Lilith Mito. No estudo da atriz sobre si mesma, a fim de per formar seu criar-pensar, são reconhecidos os modos de operação de sua poiesis cênica com imagens: um olhar de atriz-poeta se forja. A pesquisa dialoga, entre outros campos, com as teorias …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… of feminine morality through the character Lilith who appears throughout Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. Specifically, I explore this subject using Harriet Jacobs' seminal autobiography and slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as the prism in which I historically focus the …
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The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
… the neo-hippie H.O.R.D.E. Tour, the all-female Lilith Fair, and the heavy metal Ozzfest emerged, splitting the alternative rock audience and fostering environments where fans and bands could construct subgenre-specific identities. By challenging, rejecting, and remaking Lollapalooza-style …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… iconic and archetypal guises of serpent, Lamia, Lilith, and succubus. Chapter Three considers Coleridge‘s exploration of the relationship between power, politics, and religion, in his translation of Schiller‘s Wallenstein trilogy, through a comparison of Wallenstein and the archetypal figures of …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
<p>Positioned as a critique of rights-based justice, this project critically rethinks the American system of law by rooting its failures in its philosophical anthropology of atomistic individualism grounded in Locke, and recommends replacing that anthropology with an anthropology inspired by Franz …
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Milton and the Zohar
… ensuing sections: a comparison between Sin and Lilith; the fallen angel Azazel; the goat as an evil animal; the 'evil eye'; Adramelec and Balaam; the sorcery of Balak (the demonic bird). Chapter Five continues with an investigation of the left-hand path or sitra-ahra focusing on: hell as a …