Author: Willis Barnstone File Type: epub Saint Johns poetry of love and joy describes the souls passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The allegory the poet uses is that of earthly love, and the poems are strikingly effective on the immediate level of personal experience, quite apart from their theological meanings. Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the Indiana University Press. Most of these poems were written during a period of nine months, in 1577-78, when Saint John (San Juan de la Cruz) was imprisoned and tortured in the dungeon of a small Carmelite monastery in Toledo, and their recurrent motifs are both metaphysical and deeply personal.

Author: Danielle Szlawieniec-Haw File Type: pdf Fictions Truth explores professional actors lived experiences of representing human suffering, distress, and violence. The book analyses the struggles, issues, and transformations professional actors face when dealing with these portrayals of human life the personal and interpersonal consequences both taxing and rewarding they experience while undertaking these representations and the forms of attention and care they use to limit the costs and maximize the rewards of their work. The author also includes new key terminology, proposing the term dolesse to capture the experiences of representinghuman suffering, distress, and violence.Written for entertainment professionals, acting students, and scholars with an interest in acting, theatre, film, and television, Fictions Truth addresses the challenges of representing dolesse on stage and in front of the camera, acknowledges the importance of health and wellness in the entertainment industry, and helps remove the stigma that surrounds theconsequences these representations oftenhave foractors.About the Author Danielle I. Szlawieniec-Haw is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, producer, and acting consultant. She has appeared on stage and on-screen, writtenfeature films - as well as hours of television for networks such as A & E, W, CBC.and Discovery ID - and developed projects for production companies throughout Canada and the US. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from York University.

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Author: Joyce Antler File Type: epub Fifty years after the start of the womens liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the womens liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswereduntil now. Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity. Antlers exhilarating new book features dozens of compelling biographical narratives that reveal the struggles and achievements of Jewish radical feminists in Chicago, New York and Boston, as well as those who participated in the later, self-consciously identified Jewish feminist movement that fought gender inequities in Jewish religious and secular life. Disproportionately represented in the movement, Jewish womens liberationists helped to provide theories and models for radical action that were used throughout the United States and abroad. Their articles and books became classics of the movement and led to new initiatives in academia, politics, and grassroots organizing. Other Jewish-identified feminists brought the womens movement to the Jewish mainstream and Jewish feminism to the Left. For many of these women, feminism in fact served as a portal into Judaism. Recovering this deeply hidden history, Jewish Radical Feminism places Jewish womens activism at the center of feminist and Jewish narratives. The stories of over forty womens liberationists and identified Jewish feministsfrom Shulamith Firestone and Susan Brownmiller to Rabbis Laura Geller and Rebecca Alpertillustrate how womens liberation and Jewish feminism unfolded over the course of the lives of an extraordinary cohort of women, profoundly influencing the social, political, and religious revolutions of our era. **