Author: Henry Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Norman Mailer, without a doubt the most important literary figure of his generation, here celebrates the genius of "the greatest living American writer" from an earlier generation in an extended essay of unequalled brilliance as well as in a generous selection from Miller's work to point the way to "the center of the power of his writing." --from front flap.
Genius and Lust
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Norman Mailer, without a doubt the most important literary figure of his generation, here celebrates the genius of "the greatest living American writer" from an earlier generation in an extended essay of unequalled brilliance as well as in a generous selection from Miller's work to point the way to "the center of the power of his writing." --from front flap.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Norman Mailer, without a doubt the most important literary figure of his generation, here celebrates the genius of "the greatest living American writer" from an earlier generation in an extended essay of unequalled brilliance as well as in a generous selection from Miller's work to point the way to "the center of the power of his writing." --from front flap.
Dalí
Author: Ralf Schiebler
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This fascinating look at Dali éxplores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most misunderstood figures.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This fascinating look at Dali éxplores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most misunderstood figures.
Lust & Wonder
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250082366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller Lust: 1. intense sexual desire or appetite 2.a passionate or overmastering desire or craving 3.ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish. Wonder: 1. something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment,or admiration 2. the emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration 3. a miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an intimate look at the driving forces in one man’s life. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust and Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. His story began in Running with Scissors, endured through Dry, and continues with this memoir, the capstone to the life of Augusten Burroughs. Funny, sweet, alarming, and ultimately, moving and tender, Lust & Wonder is an experience of a book that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250082366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller Lust: 1. intense sexual desire or appetite 2.a passionate or overmastering desire or craving 3.ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish. Wonder: 1. something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment,or admiration 2. the emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration 3. a miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an intimate look at the driving forces in one man’s life. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust and Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. His story began in Running with Scissors, endured through Dry, and continues with this memoir, the capstone to the life of Augusten Burroughs. Funny, sweet, alarming, and ultimately, moving and tender, Lust & Wonder is an experience of a book that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
Cubic Lust
Author: gavin hardkiss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989352505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A DJ wakes up in a pool of blood in a white room in Hong Kong with no recollection of what happened. Over the next twenty four hours, the DJ will perform at a high society wedding and penetrate the inner sanctum of the progeny of the original Opium drug trade. The book balances an exciting hallucinatory story arc with insightful, absurd and sexually charged interludes that give an insider perspective into DJ culture and the hyperreality of the international DJ lifestyle. Centuries old traditions conflict and twist with the digital age in Hardkiss's debut novel. Enter the stream of consciousness of a young DJ who delves into the finest women, drugs, and music that China has to offer. Hard and shocking, poetic and sensual, Cubic Lust toys with the reader's synapses as well as any opiate could.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989352505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A DJ wakes up in a pool of blood in a white room in Hong Kong with no recollection of what happened. Over the next twenty four hours, the DJ will perform at a high society wedding and penetrate the inner sanctum of the progeny of the original Opium drug trade. The book balances an exciting hallucinatory story arc with insightful, absurd and sexually charged interludes that give an insider perspective into DJ culture and the hyperreality of the international DJ lifestyle. Centuries old traditions conflict and twist with the digital age in Hardkiss's debut novel. Enter the stream of consciousness of a young DJ who delves into the finest women, drugs, and music that China has to offer. Hard and shocking, poetic and sensual, Cubic Lust toys with the reader's synapses as well as any opiate could.
Pure Lust
Author: Mary Daly
Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780704339354
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title aims to offer a journey into the interior of language. The author reveals the patriarchal construction of language and religious imagery, offering alternatives.
Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780704339354
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title aims to offer a journey into the interior of language. The author reveals the patriarchal construction of language and religious imagery, offering alternatives.
Henry Miller
Author: Lawrence J. Shifreen
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811713
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
No descriptive material is available for this title.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811713
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
No descriptive material is available for this title.
Religion and Lust
Author: James Weir
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041205167
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041205167
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Lustmord
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and socially--in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. In exploring the complex relationship between victim and agent in cases of sexual murder, Tatar explains how the roles came to be destabilized and reversed, turning the perpetrator of criminal deeds into a defenseless victim of seductive evil. Throughout the West today, the creation of similar ideological constructions still occurs in societies that have only recently begun to validate the voices of its victims. Maria Tatar's book opens up an important discussion for readers seeking to understand the forces behind sexual violence and its portrayal in the cultural media throughout this century.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and socially--in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. In exploring the complex relationship between victim and agent in cases of sexual murder, Tatar explains how the roles came to be destabilized and reversed, turning the perpetrator of criminal deeds into a defenseless victim of seductive evil. Throughout the West today, the creation of similar ideological constructions still occurs in societies that have only recently begun to validate the voices of its victims. Maria Tatar's book opens up an important discussion for readers seeking to understand the forces behind sexual violence and its portrayal in the cultural media throughout this century.
The Genius
Author: Eliyahu Stern
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300179308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna,” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularization—with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society—Stern uses Elijah’s story to highlight a different theory of modernization for European life. Religious movements such as Hasidism and anti-secular institutions such as the yeshiva emerged from the same democratization of knowledge and privatization of religion that gave rise to secular and universal movements and institutions. Claimed by traditionalists, enlighteners, Zionists, and the Orthodox, Elijah’s genius and its afterlife capture an all-embracing interpretation of the modern Jewish experience. Through the story of the “Vilna Gaon,” Stern presents a new model for understanding modern Jewish history and more generally the place of traditionalism and religious radicalism in modern Western life and thought.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300179308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna,” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularization—with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society—Stern uses Elijah’s story to highlight a different theory of modernization for European life. Religious movements such as Hasidism and anti-secular institutions such as the yeshiva emerged from the same democratization of knowledge and privatization of religion that gave rise to secular and universal movements and institutions. Claimed by traditionalists, enlighteners, Zionists, and the Orthodox, Elijah’s genius and its afterlife capture an all-embracing interpretation of the modern Jewish experience. Through the story of the “Vilna Gaon,” Stern presents a new model for understanding modern Jewish history and more generally the place of traditionalism and religious radicalism in modern Western life and thought.
The Road to Daulis
Author: Robert Eisner
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looks at how nine classical myths, including Oedipus, Electra, and Psyche are used to explain psychological theories, and assesses the validity of these comparisons.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looks at how nine classical myths, including Oedipus, Electra, and Psyche are used to explain psychological theories, and assesses the validity of these comparisons.