Snake Woman and Other Explorations

Snake Woman and Other Explorations
Title Snake Woman and Other Explorations PDF eBook
Author Pat Parnell
Publisher Peter E. Randall Publisher
Pages 88
Release 2001
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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Snakewoman of Little Egypt

Snakewoman of Little Egypt
Title Snakewoman of Little Egypt PDF eBook
Author Robert Hellenga
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 350
Release 2010-09-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1608193233

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Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.

The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century

The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Title The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century PDF eBook
Author Angela Giallongo
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 295
Release 2018-06-11
Genre History
ISBN 1527512134

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This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.

Goddess Spells for Busy Girls

Goddess Spells for Busy Girls
Title Goddess Spells for Busy Girls PDF eBook
Author Jen McConnel
Publisher Weiser Books
Pages 135
Release 2014-02-01
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1609259130

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Exhausted? Angry? Broke? The Goddesses are here to help! Goddess magic is powerful magic: with the help of the right goddess, simple spells can yield amazing results. In this book, author Jen McConnel offers spells imbued with the vibrant force of twenty-five goddesses from around the globe. Call upon Athena for memory retention, Aphrodite to gain confidence, Persephone to find your path, and Sekhmet to prevent illness. As easy as taking a bath or boiling a pot of noodles, McConnel shows you how to transform everyday items from your pantry or from your purse to create the magic and life you need. For the busy woman who wants it all but needs help getting it, Goddess Spells for Busy Girls can help you achieve love, balance, protection, and abundance in your life. Remember, there’s a goddess for that!

The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement

The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement
Title The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 258
Release 2019-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 1527542556

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This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.

Unexpected Colors

Unexpected Colors
Title Unexpected Colors PDF eBook
Author Robert Moore
Publisher Beech River Books
Pages 74
Release 2009
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0982521413

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"Poems and songs inspired by nature and personal experience"--Provided by publisher.

Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630

Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630
Title Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Robin Goodman
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 258
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780851157009

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The literature of medieval knighthood is shown to have influenced exploration narratives from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith. Explorers from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith viewed their travels and discoveries in the light of attitudes they absorbed from the literature of medieval knighthood. Their own accounts, and contemporary narratives [reinforced by the interest of early printers], reveal this interplay, but historians of exploration on the one hand, and of chivalry on the other, have largely ignored this cultural connection. Jennifer Goodman convincingly develops the ideaof the chivalric romance as an imaginative literature of travel; she traces the publication of medieval chivalric texts alongside exploration narratives throughout the later middle ages and renaissance, and reveals parallel themesand preoccupations. She illustrates this with the histories of a sequence of explorers and their links with chivalry, from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith, and including Gadifer de la Salle and his expedition to the Canary Islands, Prince Henry the Navigator, Cortés, Hakluyt, and Sir Walter Raleigh. JENNIFER GOODMAN teaches at Texas A & M University.