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Book Sade in His Own Name

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philippe Seminet
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Sade in His Own Name written by Philippe Seminet and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to situate the much-ignored public Marquis de Sade, author of eleven stories collected into four volumes under the title Les Crimes de l'amour (1800), vis-à-vis the better-known Marquis de Sade, author of various anonymous works privileged by contemporary critics. Who is this author who - after the success of all his clandestine works - cast aside the cloak of anonymity to offer the public a collection of short fiction? This book explores how Les Crimes de l'amour provides a key to better understanding Sade's prose in both its public and its clandestine guise. More than just a critical appraisal of each of the stories, this book sheds light on Sade in his role as a man of letters publishing in his own name. By considering the ramifications of Sade's goals as a writer, stated explicitly in the «Idée sur les romans», the prefatory essay to Les Crimes, and how these goals compare to those of his contemporaries, as well as how they play out in Les Crimes, Sade in His Own Name opens up new, historically situated readings of the better-known anonymous works.

Book How To Read Sade

Download or read book How To Read Sade written by John Phillips and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sade's work continues to shock, it can also be seen as the logical conclusion of eighteenth-century materialism. As the only writer of his time who dared to put the body at the centre of philosophy, Sade has a unique place in the history of modern thought. Extracts are taken form the whole range of Sade's writings, including The 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Juliette and his Last Will and Testament.

Book Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth century French Literature and Culture

Download or read book Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth century French Literature and Culture written by David Evans and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined. Whereas the inseparability of these themes has hitherto been studied from isolated perspectives, such as psychoanalysis, sadism and sado-masochism, melancholy, or post-structuralist textualjouissance, the originality of this collaborative volume lies in its exploration of how pleasure and pain function across a broader range of contexts. The essays collected here demonstrate how the complex relationship between pleasure and pain plays a vital role in structuring nineteenth-century thinking in prose fiction (Balzac, Flaubert, Musset, Maupassant, Zola), verse and the memoir as well as socio-cultural studies, medical discourses, aesthetic theory and the visual arts. Featuring an international selection of contributors representing the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies – historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and sociopolitical – the volume attests to the vitality, coherence and interdisciplinarity of nineteenth-century French studies and will be of interest to a wide cross-section of scholars and students of French literature, society and culture.

Book The Name s Familiar

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  • Author : Lee, Laura
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781455609185
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Name s Familiar written by Lee, Laura and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Continental Drift

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  • Author : Emily Apter
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1999-06
  • ISBN : 9780226023496
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Continental Drift written by Emily Apter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the "national" characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In Continental Drift, Emily Apter deftly analyzes the French colonial and postcolonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny and the emergence of technologically mediated citizenship. Among the many topics Apter explores are the fate of national literatures in an increasingly transnational literary climate; the volatile stakes of Albert Camus's life and reputation against the backdrop of Algerian civil strife; the use of literary and theatrical productions to "script" national character for the colonies; belly-dancing and aesthetic theory; and the impact of new media on colonial and postcolonial representation, from tourist photography to the videos of Digital Diaspora. Continental Drift advances debates not just in postcolonial studies, but also in gender, identity, and cultural studies; ethnography; psychoanalysis; and performance studies.

Book Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Download or read book Where Sleeping Girls Lie written by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears. An Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 (So Far) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Goodreads, The Nerds Daily, She Reads, and so much more! It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again... Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school, after being home-schooled. Misfortune has been a constant companion throughout her life, but even Sade doesn’t expect her new roommate, Elizabeth, to disappear after Sade’s first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it. With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention of the girls collectively known as the Unholy Trinity and they bring her into their fold. Between learning more about them—especially Persephone, who Sade is inexplicably drawn to—and playing catchup in class, Sade already has so much on her plate. But when it seems people don't care enough about what happened to Elizabeth, it's up to her and Elizabeth's best friend, Baz, to investigate. And then a student is found dead. As Sade and Baz keep trying to figure out what’s going on, Sade realizes there’s more to Alfred Nobel Academy and its students than she thought. Secrets lurk around every corner and beneath every surface...Secrets that rival even her own.

Book Our Dark Side

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  • Author : Elisabeth Roudinesco
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-10-21
  • ISBN : 0745683711
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Our Dark Side written by Elisabeth Roudinesco and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with it in its own way. The history of perversion in the West is told here through a study of great emblematic figures of the perverse - Gilles de Rais, the mystical saints and the flagellants in the middle ages, the Marquis de Sade in the eighteenth century, the masturbating child, the male homosexual and the hysterical woman nineteenth century, Nazism in the twentieth century, and the complementary figures of the paedophile and the terrorist in the twenty-first. The perverse are rarely talked about and when they are it is usually only to be condemned. They are commonly viewed as monstrous and cruel, as something alien to the very nature of being human. And yet, perversion can also attest to creativity and self-transcendence, to the refusal of individuals to submit to the rules and prohibitions that govern human life. Perversion fascinates us precisely because it can be both abject and sublime. Whether they are sublime because they turn to art or mysticism, or abject because they surrender to their murderous impulses, the perverse are part of us because they exhibit something that we always conceal: our own negativity and our dark side.

Book Studies in the Psychology of Sex

Download or read book Studies in the Psychology of Sex written by Havelock Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marquis de Sade  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade A Very Short Introduction written by John Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.

Book Studies in the Psychology of Sex  Sexual inversion  3d ed   rev  and enl

Download or read book Studies in the Psychology of Sex Sexual inversion 3d ed rev and enl written by Havelock Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sadian Reflections

Download or read book Sadian Reflections written by Yoav Rinon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study encompasses many aspects of Sade's work: the role of the gaze and its importance, food in Sade's world, connections between literary genres and the Sadian worldview, interrelations of writing and masturbation, the link between sexuality and philosophy (especially in homosexual and lesbian contexts), the Sadian chain of violence, liberty, and happiness, and finally a discussion of love and its place in the savage and free world that Sade tried to create. In addition, the book bridges the gap between Sade's world and ours in a discussion of works by Lacan and Derrida, thus expressing hidden strata of Sadian notions and their critical role in shaping and constructing contemporary thought."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Sade My Neighbor

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  • Author : Pierre Klossowski
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1991-06
  • ISBN : 0810109581
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Sade My Neighbor written by Pierre Klossowski and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era's union of cold technology and ancient hatreds gave rise to a dark, alternative reason—an ethic that was value-free and indifferent with regard to virtue and vice, freedom, and slavery. In a world where "the unthinkable" had become reality, it is small wonder that theorists would turn to the writings of a man whose eighteenth-century imagination preceded twentieth-century history in its unbridled exploration of viciousness, perversion, and monstrosity: the Marquis de Sade. Klossowski was one of the first philosophers in postwar Europe to ask whether Sade's reason, although aberrant and perverted to evil passions, could be taken seriously. Klossowski's seminal work inspired virtually all subsequent study of Sadean thought, including that of de Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Bataille, Blanchot, Paulhan, and Lacan.

Book Sexual Inversion

Download or read book Sexual Inversion written by Havelock Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marquis de Sade

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade written by Neil Schaeffer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of 18th-century France, Schaeffer shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination.

Book Reading Seminars I and II

Download or read book Reading Seminars I and II written by Richard Feldstein and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Parts II, III, and IV, Colette Soler, Eric Laurent, and others explain in the clearest of fashions the highly influential conceptualization Lacan introduces with the terms "symbolic," "imaginary," and "real." Part V provides the first sustained account in English to date of Lacan's reformulation of psychoanalytic diagnostic categories - neurosis, perversion, psychosis, and their subcategories - their theoretical foundations, and clinical applications (ample case material is provided here.).

Book Sade

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Phillips
  • Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
  • Release : 2001-06-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Sade written by John Phillips and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Book Sade s Secret

Download or read book Sade s Secret written by Sparkle and published by WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing sweet about turning sixteen as three friends will soon find out. Fifteen-year-old Sade Washington has been harboring a secret from her two best friends, Crystal Jackson and Dena Bradford. Her secret is threatened to be revealed when she discovers she's pregnant. Once Sade's secret is out, it causes a wedge between her and her mother Joyce. Distraught at her mother's reactions, Sade toils with a love/hate relationship with her. Joyce struggles with keeping peace in her household. The relationship between her daughter and live-in boyfriend, Calvin has her in an emotional turmoil. Joyce is determined to make their home a happy one by any means necessary. Sade attempts to have a normal teen life, but as she turns sixteen, reality hits her head on. She must make choices that will not only affect her future, but that of her unborn child. Sade's Secret takes the reader on an emotional ride as it deals with a strong subject matter and the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships.