... exception. —Clifford Geertz Joan Copjec, Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002), 251 pp. Copjec seeks to correct those “blasé souls” who say “we are already beyond psy- choanalysis” by demonstrating that “we have not yet caught up with its most rev...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Duke University Press 2002 THE WOMAN WITH THE PEARL NECKLACE Caroline Walker Bynum In April of 2001 I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the exhibit Ver- meer and the Delft School. I was tired...

...John Watkins Hurlburt Holly S. , Daughter of Venice: Catherine Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2015 ), 360 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

... painting The Woman with the Pearl Necklace at an exhibit in 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum. Later she discovers that the painting had not left Berlin for inclusion in the New York exhibit. “I can only hypothesize,” she reflects, “that I must have deeply needed a moment out of ordinary time” and so “saw...

... the Irishness of what he encounters. The lieutenant’s love of foreign places and their names impedes his effort to systematize Ireland for imperial ends, and his love for an Irish woman brings about his own undoing. Applying Simone de Beauvoir’s view of alterity to the lieutenant’s xenophilia, the essay...

... the author's meager household possessions, looted after her denunciation to the Nazis in wartime, as the only offering her fellow citizens will cherish, while the text itself was actually brought as evidence in a postwar trial of the Polish woman she accuses in the poem and contributed to a conviction...

... repressed or fake” by many readers of both her work and the biographies written about her. Marguerite Porete was condemned at trial for being not only a heretic but also a pseudo-mulier —a “fake woman”—while “Sappho’s ancient biographers tried to discredit her seriousness by assuring us she lived a life...

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... Dickson Dear Diary Today I read a book written by a woman again. I don t understand, all the books the newspaper has sent me recently have been by women. I ve reviewed thirteen books in a row that have been written by women. The book I read today was one of the better ones, but it wasn t THAT good...

... Messiahs (Century Media Records, 2018), 64 mins. In the music video Like Orpheus, by the Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land, an ultra- Orthodox Jewish man and a Muslim woman come to share a spiritual union through their love and devotion to the sounds of heavy metal. It is a union or communion...

... behind it. Bare-chested young man taking black and white photos of man in blue shirt standing in 4th floor window, bedroom wall through which techno beat continues. The short- haired girl in red jacket thinking color isn’t only emotional, woman in the chartreuse shirt under brown sweater noting...

.... The pairs, medieval and modern, are more closely connected than at first appears. 231 The Sephardic rabbi in Yehoshua’s novel defends the custom of taking a second wife: “After all, so he claims, every man has another woman in his life, and the only question...

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... women. Reading this book, as a young Israeli woman, profoundly shaped my scholarly outlook, and I chose it as the focal point for the first paper I wrote as a graduate student. Both Holy Feast and Holy Fast and Bynum's earlier study of the nuns of Helfta in Jesus as Mother demonstrate how...

... of paintings around the theme of Woman (first exhibited in 1953), Greenberg was forced to adjust his position. By the end of the decade, Newman had displaced both Pollock (deceased in 1956) and de Kooning as Greenberg’s favored abstractionists. Whichever way...

... as Calderon does, treating it as representing the failure of a social system that sent young men away from their wives for years to study Torah and that expected them, somehow, to be good husbands as well. In Calderon s read- ing, the anonymous wife is a young woman yearning for her husband s touch and C O M...

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