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This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the first anthology of classical Telugu poetry in English, gives an overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. The beautifully translated selections are often dramatic and unexpected in tone and effect, and sometimes highly personal. The authors have provided an informative, engaging introduction, fleshing out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments, and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit.

Telugu poetry. --- Telugu poetry-- To 1500-- Translations into English. --- Telugu poetry --- Translations into English --- Telugu literature --- asian literature. --- brahmin. --- courtesan songs. --- courtesan. --- divine. --- folk tale. --- folklore. --- hindi literature. --- hinduism. --- literature. --- mahabharata. --- mancana. --- marriage. --- myth. --- nannaya. --- nannecoda. --- naraka. --- nonfiction. --- poetry. --- religious poetry. --- sanskrit. --- south asian literature. --- sukumara. --- telugu. --- tikkana. --- udanka and the snakes. --- vena. --- visnu the dwarf. --- widow. --- world literature.

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Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510-56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to argue that the only moral form of love between woman and man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she challenged the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemned all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, she argued, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honorable love must be based on this real nature. By exposing the intrinsic misogyny of prevailing theories of love, Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men. Through Aragona's sharp reasoning, her sense of irony and humor, and her renowned linguistic skill, a rare picture unfolds of an intelligent and thoughtful woman fighting sixteenth-century stereotypes of women and sexuality.

Love --- Italian literature --- love, modern languages, morality, morals, tullia daragona, italy, italian, europe, european, poetry, poems, literary, literature, courtesan, poet, 16th century, debate, translated work, translation, ethics, emotion, sexual liberation, sensual needs, spiritual, spirituality, humanity, sexuality, sex, femininity, feminine, physicality, human beings, stereotypes, irony, humor, vindication.

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"The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patrons--including popes, queens, grand dukes, and influential cardinals --while male poets and librettists wrote celebratory poetry on her behalf. In addition to her appearances as a soprano on the opera stage, Costa published a remarkable fourteen full-length texts across an expanse of genres: burlesque comedy, drama, equestrian ballet, pastoral opera, amorous letters, lyric poetry, and history. Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court brings together close textual readings of Costa’s numerous publications with archival materials detailing her performance itinerary and social-cultural networks. The book progresses chronologically through her life, geographically along the routes she travelled, and thematically via the genres in which she experimented. Jessica Goethals illuminates how Costa was unafraid to leap over the boundaries of decorum that delimited what women should and did write about. More than merely a literary biography, this book is also a portrait of seventeenth-century courts, their concerns, and their entertainments."--

Courtisanes --- Sopranos (Chanteurs) --- Écrivains italiens --- Courtesans --- Sopranos (Singers) --- Authors, Italian --- Costa, Margherita, --- Italy --- Rome (Italy) --- Intellectual life --- Court and courtiers --- History --- Barberini. --- Baroque. --- France. --- Italy. --- Margherita Costa. --- Renaissance. --- burlesque. --- courtesan. --- early modern. --- equestrian ballet. --- famous sopranos. --- gender. --- lyric poetry. --- pastoral opera. --- patronage. --- women writers.

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"The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra"--

Women in Tantric Buddhism --- Tantric Buddhism. --- India. --- Abhidharma. --- Androcentrism. --- Another Woman. --- Asceticism. --- Attunement. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Awareness. --- Bhairava. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist ethics. --- Buddhist pilgrimage. --- Buddhist texts. --- Celibacy. --- Chakra. --- Circumambulation. --- Courtesan. --- Deference. --- Deity. --- Doctrine. --- Dominatrix. --- Dukkha. --- Enlightenment (spiritual). --- Equanimity. --- Faith healing. --- Fasting. --- Female promiscuity. --- Feminist theology. --- Five Dhyani Buddhas. --- Gender role. --- Great Goddess. --- Heruka. --- Hevajra. --- Hindu priest. --- Iconography. --- Inclusivism. --- Independent woman. --- Indication (medicine). --- Kelsang Gyatso. --- Libido. --- Literature. --- Luipa. --- Maithuna. --- Male gaze. --- Mandala. --- Mantra. --- Meditation. --- Metaphysics. --- Milarepa. --- Mircea Eliade. --- Monasticism. --- Niguma. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Philosophy. --- Pratityasamutpada. --- Puranas. --- Religion. --- Religious ecstasy. --- Religious experience. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Rita Gross. --- Rite. --- Ritual purification. --- Sacred prostitution. --- Sahaja. --- Samadhi. --- Sanskrit. --- Saraha. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-denial. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual ritual. --- Shaktism. --- Siddhi. --- Sufi whirling. --- Sunyata. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tantra. --- Tantras. --- Theravada. --- Thought. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan Buddhist canon. --- Tilopa. --- Trickster. --- Vajra. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrayana. --- Vulva. --- White Lotus. --- Worship. --- Wrathful deities. --- Writing. --- Xuanzang. --- Yajna. --- Yogi. --- Yogini.

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Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi which makes her difficult to define. Who or what is the Parisienne and how she is depicted in cinema is the subject of this work. Here, Chaplin expands on existing scholarship on the Parisienne type in fields such as art history, literature and fashion history, and builds on scholarship on the films discussed to both enrich and offer new perspectives on these films.

Paris (France) --- In motion pictures. --- Women in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- France --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- City of Paris --- Paris --- Women --- Film, TV and radio. --- Films, cinema. --- HISTORY / Europe / France. --- Society & Social Sciences --- Society & culture: general --- Cultural & media studies --- Cultural studies. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- French cinema. --- Paris. --- Parisienne. --- cinema. --- cosmopolitanism. --- cosmopolite. --- courtesan. --- fashion icon. --- fashion. --- femme fatale. --- iconography. --- la Parisienne. --- modern life. --- muse. --- nineteenth-century art. --- prostitution. --- star personae. --- stardom.