Download or read book A History of Erotic Literature written by Patrick J. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Erotic Subjects written by Melissa E. Sanchez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than dismiss such assumptions as mere conventions, Melissa Sanchez uncovers the political import of early modern literature's fascination with eroticized violence. Focusing on representations of masochism, sexual assault, and cross-gendered identification, Sanchez re-examines the work of politically active writers from Philip Sidney to John Milton. She argues that political allegiance and consent appear far less conscious and deliberate than traditional historical narratives allow when Sidney depicts abjection as a source of both moral authority and sexual arousal; when Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare make it hard to distinguish between rape and seduction; when Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish depict women who adore treacherous or abusive lovers; when court masques stress the pleasures of enslavement; or when Milton insists that even Edenic marriage is hopelessly pervaded by aggression and self-loathing. Sanchez shows that this literature constitutes an alternate tradition of political theory that acknowledges the irrational and perverse components of power and thereby disrupts more conventional accounts of politics as driven by self-interest, false consciousness, or brute force. Erotic Subjects will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern literary and political history, as well as those interested in the histories of gender, sexuality, and affect more generally.
Download or read book Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation written by Johannes D Kaminski and published by Legenda. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate, arousing and, often, disturbing dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must reposition itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice? Examining erotic literature from multiple angles, this volume starts off with an ethical evaluation of the most recent rendering of Marquis de Sade into English. Other inquiries into European letters include the works of Goethe, Georges Bataille, Pierre Guyotat and E. L. James, and the films of Michael Haneke and Patrice Chéreau. Studies of Chinese and Japanese erotic traditions complement the picture by addressing the different functions of the erotic in discrete cultural settings. Johannes D. Kaminski is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University of Vienna.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Erotic Literature written by C. J. Scheiner and published by Wordsworth Edition. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature written by Bradford K. Mudge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.
Download or read book Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800 1930 written by Peter Mendes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').
Download or read book Erotic Literature written by Jane Mills and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature written by Gaëtan Brulotte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-11 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature is a two-volume work that contains some 540 entries on erotic literature on an international scale. The Encyclopedia has an unprecedented scope, the first scholarly reference resource to bring the field together in all its fascinating variety. The entries examine the history of the literature in different countries and languages from classical antiquity to the present day, individual writers from around the world (not all of them necessarily known as specialist writers of erotic literature), significant works, genres and critical approaches, and general themes pertinent to erotic literature (nudity, prostitution, etc.). The definition of erotic literature is broad, encompassing all the material recognized in the study of the field: not just fiction in all genres (novels, poetry, short stories, drama), but also essays, autobiographies, treatises and sex manuals from different cultures. This Encyclopedia deals with sexually explicit texts characterized by sexual representations and suggestions. All types of sexuality are included. For more information about the title and the editors, go to: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/erotic-encyclopedia-edited-by-london-met-professor.cfm/
Download or read book The Secret Record written by Michael Perkins and published by Rhinoceros Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins betoogt dat erotiek een kracht is, die bijvoorbeeld ook spirituele capaciteiten weet open te gooien. Auteurs van erotische literatuur verbeelden de transendentale energie van sexualiteit, erotische literatuur is veel meer dan platte pornografie en de grenzen ertussen zijn vaag.
Download or read book Erotic Literature written by Jane Mills and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Erotic Literature written by Harry E. Wedeck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging reference volume offers an in-depth survey of erotic themes through centuries of literary history. Representing cultures around the world and spanning from ancient times to the twentieth century, this A-to-Z guide explores one of the most universal and enduring themes in literature. Entries range from Ovid’s Ars amatoria, second-century Gnosticism, and ninth-century Arabian poets, all the way up to the explicit novels published in Paris in the 1960s. As Harry E. Wedeck explains in his introduction, a culture’s artistic and literary depictions of eroticism reveal a great deal about their way of life. In Dictionary of Erotic Literature, Wedeck draws on this endlessly vast topic to present an illustrative sampling of authors, written works, and terminology that will be of value to any student of literature or cultural history.
Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance Fiction and the Drama written by E. Cobham Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Download or read book Seven Hundred Kisses written by Lily Pond and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 1997-06-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, publisher and editor Lily Pond has established Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts as the premier source of sensual literature as serious, hilarious, joyful and real as sexual passion itself. Soliciting works from a wide range of well-known authors and nurturing the talents of new writers, Pond is famous for presenting writings that evoke Eros, not erotica cliches. Now the popular 15-year-old journal of international erotic arts makes its debut as an annual book. Seven Hundred Kisses features the magazine's trademark mix of new and established writers, including Tobias Wolf, Jane Smiley, Carlos Maso, Dorothy Allison, Walter Mosely and many others. A night-table necessity, this is writing that starts at the toes and works its way slowly, lingeringly and deliciously up to the brain, leaving no erogenous zone untouched!
Download or read book Jane Eyre Laid Bare written by Eve Sinclair and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an eager and curious Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall her sexual desires are instantly awakened. Who is the enigmatic Rochester whom she instantly feels attracted to, what are the strange and yet captivating noises coming from the attic, and why does the very air she breathes feel heavy with passion? Only one thing Is certain. Jane Eyre may have arrived at Thornfield an unfulfilled and tentative woman, but she will leave a very different person...
Download or read book A History of Erotic Literature written by Patrick J. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Love Poems of John Donne written by Charles Eliot Norton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Erotica written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gathering of writings from well-known authors is a celebration of sensual love from classic times to the present day. Representing some of literature's brightest lights, this anthology aptly fulfills the many purposes of erotic writing. Included here are selections from Anais Nin, Anne Rice, Pat Califia, Alice Joanou, and many others.
