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Book Le pied de Fanchette ou le soulier couleur de rose

Download or read book Le pied de Fanchette ou le soulier couleur de rose written by Nicolas Edme Rétif de La Bretonne and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Pied de Fanchette  ou le Soulier couleur de rose    dition illustr  e de 16 eaux fortes en couleurs de Luc Lafnet

Download or read book Le Pied de Fanchette ou le Soulier couleur de rose dition illustr e de 16 eaux fortes en couleurs de Luc Lafnet written by Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bad Books

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  • Author : Amy S. Wyngaard
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1611494206
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Bad Books written by Amy S. Wyngaard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme R tif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that R tif's 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or that he was an avid foot and shoe fetishist), much of this story has been obscured and even forgotten including how the author actively worked to define the category of obscenity and the modern pornographic genre, and how he coined the psycho-sexual term "fetish" and played a central role in the formation of theories of sexual fetishism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus this book is also about literary history and how it is written: it explores how R tif, perceived as a bad author in both senses of the term, and his contributions were glossed over or condemned, such that the originality of his texts has still not been fully established. Placing R tif's novels and short stories in dialogue with his autobiographical writings as well as with contemporary and modern critical commentaries, the various chapters of the book examine the author's repeated testing of the limits of censorship to define and redefine the boundaries of obscenity; his advancement of the modern form and definition of pornography through a focus on intimacy and (female) pleasure; his detailed narrative explorations of foot and shoe fetishisms that were later appropriated by the sexologists; and his development of theories of eugenics and reproduction in his utopian science fiction. The history of R tif's texts and their reception reveals an evolution in the criteria of what is considered to be "good" or "worthy" literature--a category once defined purely on moral grounds that is increasingly seen in cultural terms. Bad Books corroborates the recent resurgence of interest in the author by showing the import of his texts, which not only designate a number of firsts in the histories of sexuality and pornography, but which also illuminate some of the defining moments in the history of French literary studies.

Book Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots

Download or read book Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots written by Michael Sevastakis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian giallo film genre--the equivalent of the American whodunit but incorporating extreme violence and sex--was based on popular British and American fiction of the 30s and 40s, adapted to the explicitly liberal filmmaking of 1970s and 1980s Europe. Seldom released in American theaters, these films were usually distributed as redacted bootlegs, awaiting digital technology to be restored to their original content and pristine visual form. This book analyzes the censored sex and violence of giallo films, finding in them an inherent beauty and tracing their literary antecedents to the elements of the fairy tale as described by Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Each chapter covers a film and its director, from 1962 to 1987. The author argues that despite their formulaic production and designation as "Euro-sleaze," these films are works of individuality and artistic virtue.

Book Fashioned Texts and Painted Books

Download or read book Fashioned Texts and Painted Books written by Erin E. Edgington and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stephane Mallarme's eventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour eventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry. Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.

Book Catalogue of Books

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  • Author : Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stanzas

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  • Author : Giorgio Agamben
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780816620388
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Stanzas written by Giorgio Agamben and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stanzas" (which means "rooms" in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage - there is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier. This impossibility leads Agamben to the problem of representation. He argues that since language is the locus of the production and storage of phantasms, all real objects are fractured by phantasmic itineraries that in turn divide poetry and philosophy, joy and knowledge. This division is at the origin of Western culture and renders impossible the possession of any object of knowledge. Giorgio Agamben is the author of "Language and Death" (University of Minnesota Press 1991).

Book Le Pied de Fanch  te ou le soulier couleur de rose    troisi  me   dition

Download or read book Le Pied de Fanch te ou le soulier couleur de rose troisi me dition written by and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Extensive Library of Rezin A  Wight  Esq   of New York City

Download or read book Catalogue of the Extensive Library of Rezin A Wight Esq of New York City written by Rezin A. Wight and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cardiovascular Complications of Liver Disease

Download or read book Cardiovascular Complications of Liver Disease written by Arieh Bomzon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art book concentrates in one volume our current knowledge on the cardiovascular complications of liver disease. This easy-to-read work provides a better understanding of the pathogenesis and consequences of portal hypertension and establishes a physiological basis for its pharmacological treatment. It examines the effect of liver disease on volume regulation, the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, and the processes involved in capillary fluid exchange. It includes a discussion on volume and sodium regulation, as well as atrial natriuretic peptide. It also covers the effects of different classes of drugs such as alcohol, sympathomimetics, diuretics, and hormones on the cardiovascular system in liver disease. This reference manual is an absolute must for all clinicians and researchers with an interest in the cardiovascular system in liver disease.

Book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classification  Class P  Subclass PQ  Pt  1

Download or read book Classification Class P Subclass PQ Pt 1 written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue des livres fran  ais  italiens  espagnols  portugais   c  qui se trouvent chez Bossange  Barth  s   Lowell  14  Great Marlborough Street

Download or read book Catalogue des livres fran ais italiens espagnols portugais c qui se trouvent chez Bossange Barth s Lowell 14 Great Marlborough Street written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writers of the French Enlightenment

Download or read book Writers of the French Enlightenment written by Samia I. Spencer and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Dedicated to making literature and its creators more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars, the series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. Entries are written by experts in the field and include bibliographies and illustrations.