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The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic.<br/><br/>     Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. <br/><br/>A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics.<br/><br/>Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. <br/><br/>Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. <br/><br/>This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity.

For 600 years the Persian poet Hafez has been read recited quoted and loved by millions of people in his homeland and throughout the world. Like his predecessor Rumi he is a spiritual guide in our search for life's essence. Hafez is both a mystic philosopher and a heartfelt poet of desires and fears. HAFEZ is the perfect introduction to the man known as the philosopher of love whose message of spiritual transcendence through rapture and service to others is especially important now that our troubled world has moved into the 21st century. His wisdom speaks directly to the cutting edge of philosophy psychology social theory and education and can serve as a bridge of understanding between the West and the Middle East two cultures in desperate need of mutual empathy. This is the paperback edition of the hardback entitled Spiritual Wisdom of Hafez.

Den här boken som du nu håller i handen är på svenska. Den handlar om en planet som du själv bor och lever på.<br/><br/> Den när boken tar även upp om kändiskapet och andras offentliga personers man hade möte med och intervjuat genom tiderna.<br/><br/> - Om dina ögon ser droppar hör de inte munkänslan.<br/><br/> Als Mischas und Sam Laika treffen, sind sie gute Freunde, und es kann sein, dass die Welt, in der sie leben, erkennt, dass Kriege und Konflikte den Frieden zerstören.<br/><br/> This book is about a life just like the reader's consideration of his life and living. Each human being is a unique creature that makes the planet earth a resource in one way or another.<br/><br/> We humans, in the name of Humanity, live on a planet called Earth. It is only 1 planet, but we live as if it were 1-3 plants. To plant our society in various sovereign countries and states, where we should live in peace without conflicts and other problems.<br/><br/> It is we humans who have lived our lives as since parents the world. Then it's time for us humans to get anxious and go to the therapy couch to be reconciled. But if we lived then those lives better, we would probably never live so that the world did not change so that the next generation will have problems. Tell me if it's not love?<br/><br/> A wise Indian says that all creatures that are animals on planet earth live under the same roof, naked in the face of truth. But the most dangerous animal is the one who wears clothes and is civilized enough to know better. This animal is human. Civilization is dangerous!<br/><br/> Människorna reser inte till någonting egentligen, dom reser från någonting, så att de kommer bort i fiskens fjäll en liten smula bortom alla berg i på alpernas fjäll, där vardagen får sina alldagliga händelser.

Louis Marshall Gould takes us on a colourful and magical odyssey through Poetry, Prose & Song and Photographs. With vivid illustrations by René Märtin. Louis Marshall Gould tar med oss på en färgstark och magisk odyssé genom Poesi, Prosa, Sång & Fotografier. Boken innehåller levande illustrationer av konstnären René Märtin.

A collection of 100 poems about love, loss, and life.<br/> Inspires each of us to embrace all parts of life.<br/> All its ups and downs.<br/><br/> We hope to find a blissful love that makes your heart palpitate.<br/> Emotions high and strong.<br/> Excitement vigorous.<br/> Life can throw us down into a bottomless pit in a nanosecond, and in our hearts is despair.<br/> In a second, any second, it can all change as life is never the same, and so can love to be as well.<br/> When you can't see the path or light.<br/> Where to go or turn.<br/> Then it all changes again to joyous wonders only provided by the world.