Author: Miriam Silverberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
"A sumptuously documented book, one that makes innovative use of the principle of montage to generate informative historical readings of Japan's myriad mass cultural phenomena in the early twentieth century. Both in terms of its scholarship and its methodology, this is a truly admirable work."—Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University "As Miriam Silverberg has brilliantly shown here, the modern times of 1920s and ‘30s Japan were rendered in a cacophony of cultural mixing: a period of consumerist desires and Hollywood fantasy-making but also the rise of nationalist empire-building. Excavating its kaleidoscope of everyday culture Silverberg astutely offers a theory of montage for how Japanese subjects 'code-switched' in juggling the mixed cultural/political elements of these times. Utilizing a montage of media, texts, sites, and scholarship, Silverberg leads the reader into the terrain of the 'erotic grotesque nonsense' in a work that is as scintillating as it is theoretically important."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination "Unlike other scholars who merely view ero-guro-nansensu in its literal meanings, Silverberg brilliantly documents it as a complex cultural aesthetic expressed in a spectrum of fascinating mass culture forms and preoccupations. With great erudition and humor, she traces the sensory and conceptual modes that are animated with potency and sophistication through this cultural metaphor. This book is destined to be a classic in Japan scholarship."—Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Author: Miriam Silverberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
"A sumptuously documented book, one that makes innovative use of the principle of montage to generate informative historical readings of Japan's myriad mass cultural phenomena in the early twentieth century. Both in terms of its scholarship and its methodology, this is a truly admirable work."—Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University "As Miriam Silverberg has brilliantly shown here, the modern times of 1920s and ‘30s Japan were rendered in a cacophony of cultural mixing: a period of consumerist desires and Hollywood fantasy-making but also the rise of nationalist empire-building. Excavating its kaleidoscope of everyday culture Silverberg astutely offers a theory of montage for how Japanese subjects 'code-switched' in juggling the mixed cultural/political elements of these times. Utilizing a montage of media, texts, sites, and scholarship, Silverberg leads the reader into the terrain of the 'erotic grotesque nonsense' in a work that is as scintillating as it is theoretically important."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination "Unlike other scholars who merely view ero-guro-nansensu in its literal meanings, Silverberg brilliantly documents it as a complex cultural aesthetic expressed in a spectrum of fascinating mass culture forms and preoccupations. With great erudition and humor, she traces the sensory and conceptual modes that are animated with potency and sophistication through this cultural metaphor. This book is destined to be a classic in Japan scholarship."—Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
"A sumptuously documented book, one that makes innovative use of the principle of montage to generate informative historical readings of Japan's myriad mass cultural phenomena in the early twentieth century. Both in terms of its scholarship and its methodology, this is a truly admirable work."—Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University "As Miriam Silverberg has brilliantly shown here, the modern times of 1920s and ‘30s Japan were rendered in a cacophony of cultural mixing: a period of consumerist desires and Hollywood fantasy-making but also the rise of nationalist empire-building. Excavating its kaleidoscope of everyday culture Silverberg astutely offers a theory of montage for how Japanese subjects 'code-switched' in juggling the mixed cultural/political elements of these times. Utilizing a montage of media, texts, sites, and scholarship, Silverberg leads the reader into the terrain of the 'erotic grotesque nonsense' in a work that is as scintillating as it is theoretically important."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination "Unlike other scholars who merely view ero-guro-nansensu in its literal meanings, Silverberg brilliantly documents it as a complex cultural aesthetic expressed in a spectrum of fascinating mass culture forms and preoccupations. With great erudition and humor, she traces the sensory and conceptual modes that are animated with potency and sophistication through this cultural metaphor. This book is destined to be a classic in Japan scholarship."—Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics
Strolls with Pushkin
Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems. This new edition of Strolls with Pushkin also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, "Journey to the River Black."
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543271
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen up around him. Anglophone readers who question the longstanding adoration for Pushkin felt by generations of Russians will enjoy tagging along on Sinyavsky's strolls with the great poet, discussing his life, fiction, and famously untranslatable poems. This new edition of Strolls with Pushkin also includes a later essay Sinyavsky wrote on the artist, "Journey to the River Black."
Erotique Legs
Author: Carlton Books Staff
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781858688701
Category : Leg
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the series "Objects of Desire, " the leg is celebrated with exquisite, erotic photos accompanied and complemented by poignant, provocative quotes. This sumptuous picture book features some of the leading international photographers of the 20th century. 120 photos.
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781858688701
Category : Leg
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the series "Objects of Desire, " the leg is celebrated with exquisite, erotic photos accompanied and complemented by poignant, provocative quotes. This sumptuous picture book features some of the leading international photographers of the 20th century. 120 photos.
Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature
Author: Alexei Lalo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian popular culture for the first time found itself in direct confrontation with the traditional high cultures of the upper classes and intelligentsia, producing modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian tradition of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed by literary history, emerges as what Foucault would call a full-blown “bio-history” of Russian culture: a history of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized body capable of innovation on its own terms, not just those derivative from Europe.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian popular culture for the first time found itself in direct confrontation with the traditional high cultures of the upper classes and intelligentsia, producing modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian tradition of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed by literary history, emerges as what Foucault would call a full-blown “bio-history” of Russian culture: a history of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized body capable of innovation on its own terms, not just those derivative from Europe.
When Eve Was Naked
Author: Josef Skvorecký
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466893990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466893990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.
The World is Full of Divorced Women
Author: Jackie Collins
Publisher: Chances Inc.
ISBN: 0989890007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
“A generation of women have learnt more about how to handle their men from Jackie’s books than from any kind of manual... Jackie is very much her own person: a total one off.” —Daily Mail In the scorching follow-up to The World is Full of Married Men, Jackie Collins takes readers on another racy romp written well before its time, and weaving an incredible story of infidelity, sin, and deliciously sweet revenge in a way only the master of glamour fiction can! When British journalist Cleo James decided to surprise her record company executive husband at his Manhattan office, she wasn’t expecting to be greeted by a very naked Mike having his way with her very naked best friend, Susan. Cleo soon learns that this is not an isolated incident—that there have been others. Many others. Some women might see this mishap as a tragic setback, but smart, savvy, and sexy twenty-nine-year-old Cleo sees only an opportunity to grow beyond the New York City lifestyle that marriage dragged and locked her into. Cleo has had a successful career writing celebrity profiles for Image magazine and now she’s free to take on an assignment to travel the globe and interview the world’s five hottest men—all of whom she plans to sleep with to get revenge on Mike. Buxom and beautiful Muffin may be the hottest centerfold girl in London, but she craves the sizzle and spark of Hollywood. She sets her sights on Jon Clapton, a professional photographer who’s already married, as her ticket to stardom in America. After convincing him to leave his wife and take her to the States, Jon soon becomes her manager. Though Muffin may discover he wants more from her than she can or is willing to give. . . Packed with salacious situations and plenty of sizzle, The World is Full of Divorced Women combines Jackie Collins two favorite and most beloved worlds—Hollywood and London—to create a scorching and truly satisfying read! hr Read both of The World is Full series, as well as all the New York Times bestselling books by Jackie Collins! 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women
Publisher: Chances Inc.
ISBN: 0989890007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
“A generation of women have learnt more about how to handle their men from Jackie’s books than from any kind of manual... Jackie is very much her own person: a total one off.” —Daily Mail In the scorching follow-up to The World is Full of Married Men, Jackie Collins takes readers on another racy romp written well before its time, and weaving an incredible story of infidelity, sin, and deliciously sweet revenge in a way only the master of glamour fiction can! When British journalist Cleo James decided to surprise her record company executive husband at his Manhattan office, she wasn’t expecting to be greeted by a very naked Mike having his way with her very naked best friend, Susan. Cleo soon learns that this is not an isolated incident—that there have been others. Many others. Some women might see this mishap as a tragic setback, but smart, savvy, and sexy twenty-nine-year-old Cleo sees only an opportunity to grow beyond the New York City lifestyle that marriage dragged and locked her into. Cleo has had a successful career writing celebrity profiles for Image magazine and now she’s free to take on an assignment to travel the globe and interview the world’s five hottest men—all of whom she plans to sleep with to get revenge on Mike. Buxom and beautiful Muffin may be the hottest centerfold girl in London, but she craves the sizzle and spark of Hollywood. She sets her sights on Jon Clapton, a professional photographer who’s already married, as her ticket to stardom in America. After convincing him to leave his wife and take her to the States, Jon soon becomes her manager. Though Muffin may discover he wants more from her than she can or is willing to give. . . Packed with salacious situations and plenty of sizzle, The World is Full of Divorced Women combines Jackie Collins two favorite and most beloved worlds—Hollywood and London—to create a scorching and truly satisfying read! hr Read both of The World is Full series, as well as all the New York Times bestselling books by Jackie Collins! 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women
Picasso Erotique. Englische Ausgabe.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The career of the greatest painter of the twentieth century was played out in the shadow of Eros -- and of Thanatos. At the age of eight Picasso's first drawings already displayed a precocious interest in the female form, and in the days leading up to his death he was still working obsessively on sketches of the female sex. At the turn of the century the young Picasso created drawings and watercolors inspired by the bordellos of Barcelona which he frequented. These works mix desire, fascination, but also comedy and the grotesque alongside the ever-present fear of disease. They would result, seven years later, in his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The works in this ground-breaking book include erotic drawings formal and informal, sketches in notebooks hidden in drawers and private collections, and occasionally paintings and sculptures. Through all these works the essays by an international team of scholars, analyse the primeval notion of desire in Picasso's work, as well as his relation to voyeurism and exhibitionism, to artist and model. Whether through playful or hallucinatory forms, Picasso's representation of the desiring and desired body has become a pivotal moment in the history of twentieth-century art. Produced to accompany a major exhibition in Paris, Montreal and Barcelona, Picasso Erotique is a unique examination of the central theme in Picasso's work.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The career of the greatest painter of the twentieth century was played out in the shadow of Eros -- and of Thanatos. At the age of eight Picasso's first drawings already displayed a precocious interest in the female form, and in the days leading up to his death he was still working obsessively on sketches of the female sex. At the turn of the century the young Picasso created drawings and watercolors inspired by the bordellos of Barcelona which he frequented. These works mix desire, fascination, but also comedy and the grotesque alongside the ever-present fear of disease. They would result, seven years later, in his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The works in this ground-breaking book include erotic drawings formal and informal, sketches in notebooks hidden in drawers and private collections, and occasionally paintings and sculptures. Through all these works the essays by an international team of scholars, analyse the primeval notion of desire in Picasso's work, as well as his relation to voyeurism and exhibitionism, to artist and model. Whether through playful or hallucinatory forms, Picasso's representation of the desiring and desired body has become a pivotal moment in the history of twentieth-century art. Produced to accompany a major exhibition in Paris, Montreal and Barcelona, Picasso Erotique is a unique examination of the central theme in Picasso's work.
An Owner's Manual for Consciously Evolving Your Consciousness
Author: Don McCrea-Hendrick
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 1643348698
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This Owner's Manual provides you with detailed ways to Consciously Evolve Your Consciousness while addressing other important related issues: The Brain and How to Use It, The Law of Giving and Receiving, How to Meditate, How to Chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Wishing People a Happy Life, The Probability of Being Born, Spiritual Philosophy, Neuroscience and Neurogenesis (how to grow new stem cells), Evolution of the Subconscious Mind. By the time you read this Owner's Manual, you will be on your way to evolving your own consciousness. Included with this Owner's Manual is the novel Romancing the Absurd, a story of redemption for two of the characters who dabble in consciously evolving their consciousness. When financial investigator Tony T. Trueblé is hired to interview key players in a major lawsuit against a venture capitalist group, his world is turned upside down as he is dragged through a seedy underworld of corruption, dishonesty, and murder. He must not only get the job done but do so without giving into his insatiable cravings for vodka, weed, and causal, meaningless sex. Sensational, satirical, and sometimes absurd, Romancing the Absurd is a literary murder mystery full of intrigue, suspense, philosophy, and absurdist cutthroat behavior. Nine people die under bizarre circumstances. A handful of people get screwed (in more ways than one). The story takes humorous and philosophical twists and turns, leaving you laughing at the murderous tactics some folks are willing to use to get ahead in this world. Throughout the story, there runs an undercurrent of reflection, hope, and redemption for Tony, who strives to right his wrongs, and Jim der Bacon, accused of murder yet able to focus on consciously evolving his own consciousness. For Tony, redemption comes through writing and his new awareness that one can consciously evolve their consciousness. Romancing the Absurd is the final result of Tony's studies, hard work, and shocking struggles with himself, others, and the universe at large. Based on real-life venture capitalists, businessmen, and lawyers, the story is structured using reinvented reality.
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 1643348698
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This Owner's Manual provides you with detailed ways to Consciously Evolve Your Consciousness while addressing other important related issues: The Brain and How to Use It, The Law of Giving and Receiving, How to Meditate, How to Chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Wishing People a Happy Life, The Probability of Being Born, Spiritual Philosophy, Neuroscience and Neurogenesis (how to grow new stem cells), Evolution of the Subconscious Mind. By the time you read this Owner's Manual, you will be on your way to evolving your own consciousness. Included with this Owner's Manual is the novel Romancing the Absurd, a story of redemption for two of the characters who dabble in consciously evolving their consciousness. When financial investigator Tony T. Trueblé is hired to interview key players in a major lawsuit against a venture capitalist group, his world is turned upside down as he is dragged through a seedy underworld of corruption, dishonesty, and murder. He must not only get the job done but do so without giving into his insatiable cravings for vodka, weed, and causal, meaningless sex. Sensational, satirical, and sometimes absurd, Romancing the Absurd is a literary murder mystery full of intrigue, suspense, philosophy, and absurdist cutthroat behavior. Nine people die under bizarre circumstances. A handful of people get screwed (in more ways than one). The story takes humorous and philosophical twists and turns, leaving you laughing at the murderous tactics some folks are willing to use to get ahead in this world. Throughout the story, there runs an undercurrent of reflection, hope, and redemption for Tony, who strives to right his wrongs, and Jim der Bacon, accused of murder yet able to focus on consciously evolving his own consciousness. For Tony, redemption comes through writing and his new awareness that one can consciously evolve their consciousness. Romancing the Absurd is the final result of Tony's studies, hard work, and shocking struggles with himself, others, and the universe at large. Based on real-life venture capitalists, businessmen, and lawyers, the story is structured using reinvented reality.
Best Women's Erotica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Perversion Now!
Author: Diana Caine
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319472712
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between ‘transgression’ and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of ‘perversion’ as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices. Topical and controversial, academics and students of psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory, and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge theoretical debate, the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. /div
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319472712
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between ‘transgression’ and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of ‘perversion’ as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices. Topical and controversial, academics and students of psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory, and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge theoretical debate, the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. /div