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Eroticism in literature. --- Erotica --- Erotic art. --- History.
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Erotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable to do. In this volume, discussions of the erotic as an extraordinary part of the human condition, manifest in examples such as: exoticised voyages to faraway lands; the thrills of ancient combat; the escape and enchantment of eroticized performance; transgressive notions of the female jouissance ; the delights of the sexual pursuits in the virtual domain; the political possibilities of stigmatized, queer pleasure; and perceptions of ‘fetishes’ which include relationships with inanimate beings. It would appear that what is required for these out-of-the-ordinary quests, are pointed actions – movements away from the monotony of life’s rhythms and outside the shelter of an otherwise predictable materiality. Contributors are Jon Braddy, John Dayton, Rita Dirks, John T. Grider, Billy Huff, Maciej Musiał, Naomi Stekelenburg, Dionne van Reenen and Tianyang Zhou.
Erotica --- Sexual fantasies --- Eroticism in literature. --- History.
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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus, Marguerite Eymery (pen name Rachilde), an apparently genteel young woman from a provincial bourgeois family, burst onto the French literary scene in 1884 amid scandal. This story of a sadistic transvestite and her pretty male lover was the first in a long series of novels, plays and stories dealing often in the most macabre and sensationalistic terms with sadism, gender inversion, and sexual desire. At the heart of the French literary world, Rachilde's life and writing defied patriarchal rules, particularly in relation to female sexuality, but she consistently and vehemently rejected feminism. Her extraordinary life and work, including a vast output as a literary reviewer, offer a prism through which to view the vibrant social and cultural history of France from the belle époque to the Second World War. This book is the first serious critical study of Rachilde's work. Exploring the interwoven themes of French naturalism, modernism, decadence and feminism, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in French culture, literature and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.
Eroticism in literature. --- Decadence in literature. --- Rachilde,
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Bei Genet lässt sich eine Sprache der Liebe feststellen, die sich jenseits des sexuellen Verlangens äußert. Liebe wird emblematisch durch eine mütterliche Position beschrieben, die aus der christlichen Tradition vertraut ist. Die in Genets Romanen auftretenden Männer erinnern an bekannte Bildnisse der Heiligen Gottesmutter, insbesondere an Darstellungen der Mater Dolorosa. Unbestritten entwerfen die Romane männliche Protagonisten in einer Eindringlichkeit, der man sich nur schwer entziehen kann. Doch betrachtet man sie genauer, weisen sie weibliche, ja mütterliche Qualitäten auf, die den ersten Eindruck als Illusion anzeigen und eine neue Lesart empfehlen. Dadurch dass in „Das Lied der Liebe bei Jean Genet“ erstmals Liebe nicht sexuell begriffen wird, entsteht eine neuartige Lektüre dieses Autors, die von Roland Barthes’ inspiriert ist. In Verbindung mit dieser anderen Wertung des Liebesdiskurses stellt der Band Bezüge zur christlichen Ikonographie in den Mittelpunkt.
Love in literature. --- Eroticism in literature. --- Erotica in literature
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Social history --- Sex customs --- Eroticism in literature --- Erotica --- Erotic literature
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"Parler de la prostitution dans l'œubre de Marguerite Duras, c'est interroger, outre un motif obsédant, ce qui dans l'écriture fait écart, c'est faire entendre combien le geste adamique, innervé de désir, est habité par une tension, celle-là même qui constitue le creuser de l'écrit. Parce que la prostitucion chez Duras relève d'une poïétique, cet essai se propose d'analyser les rapports intimes entre une écriture qui dirait l'écart et une ecriture façonée par l'écart. Il sonde les différents schémas prostituionnels, questionne la différence sexuelle, dénude les déchirures d'une écriture qui fait l'expérience de la perte et qui, comme telle, se donne à voir au monde."
Prostitutes in literature --- Eroticism in literature --- Duras, Marguerite
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Erotic literature --- Eroticism in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Eroticism in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism.
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Eroticism in literature. --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism.
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