Figures Of Ill Repute

Author : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822319470

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Figures of Ill Repute by Charles Bernheimer Pdf

Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.

Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521398975

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Carmen by Susan McClary Pdf

Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety that greeted its premiere and that have been rekindled by the recent spate of film versions. Beginning with a study of the Mérimée story by Peter Robinson and an examination of the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, the book traces the latter through its genesis and reception. The central core of the book presents a close reading of the opera that offers new interpretive possibilities. The handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions of Carmen by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook, and Francesco Rosi. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis.

Author : Stephen Snyder
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824822366

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Fictions of Desire by Stephen Snyder Pdf

Stephen Snyder examines Kafu's fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism--at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antithetical development of the modernist reflexive novel.

Author : Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198801658

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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield Pdf

In this study of prostitution in late imperial Austria, Nancy M. Wingfield brings to light the real women behind contemporary constructions of prostitution, with the aim of restoring their historical agency and placing them in their larger social context

Author : Philippe Hamon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520073258

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Expositions by Philippe Hamon Pdf

In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Expositions explores the spatial and cultural logic of Haussmann's sweeping Paris boulevards, classic novels by Balzac and Zola, the Bon March� department store, and the poetry of Baudelaire.

Author : Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826503794

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Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History by Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi Pdf

Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere. The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms—political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media—with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications.

Author : Norma Broude,Mary D. Garrard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520242524

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Reclaiming Female Agency by Norma Broude,Mary D. Garrard Pdf

'Reclaiming Feminine Agency' identifies female agency as a central theme of recent feminist scholarship & offers 23 essays on artists & issues from the Renaissance to the present, written in the 1990s & after.

Author : Teresa Fuentes Peris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0853237182

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Visions of Filth by Teresa Fuentes Peris Pdf

This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito Pérez Galdós. Galdós’s treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault’s very specific conceptualization of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyzes how Galdós’s novels interacted with contemporary debates on poverty and deviancy – notably, discourses on hygiene, domesticity and philanthropy. It is proposed that Galdós’s view of marginal social groups was much more open-minded, shrewd and liberal than the often inflexible pronouncements made by contemporary professional voices.

Author : Deborah Houk Schocket
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640435

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Modes of Seduction by Deborah Houk Schocket Pdf

Through its examination of Balzac's and Sand's representations of seduction from the perspectives of feminism, psycho-analysis, and cultural studies, this book sheds lights on erotic relations and the ways in which they are embedded in wider issues of subjectivity and political and social structures."--Jacket.

Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583670279

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Cultures of Darkness by Bryan D. Palmer Pdf

A teacher of working-class and social history, and editor of the Canadian journal Labour/Le Travail, Palmer chronicles those who defied authority, choosing to live dangerously outside the defining cultural constraints of early insurgent--and later dominant--capitalism. They include peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rachel Mesch
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826515312

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The Hysteric's Revenge by Rachel Mesch Pdf

Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-century woman writer. This book includes novels that confront this mind/body problem through a wide variety of styles and genres that challenge conventional fin-de-siecle notions of femininity.

Author : Women in French (Organization). Conference
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 3039105213

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The Resilient Female Body by Women in French (Organization). Conference Pdf

The chapters in this book were first presented at the Women in French Biennial Conference held in Leeds in May 2004. The twelve essays explore the multifaceted commodification of the female body and provide insights into the mutations of French society and culture. British and French scholars examine the paradoxes and contradictions embodied in various images and discourses related to health and illness from different perspectives, ranging from sociological studies to analyses of working diaries, children's medical encyclopaedias and literary texts. The 'resilient female body' as epitomised by the First World War nurse tends by the end of the twentieth century to be construed as the 'sanitised female body', subjected to mind/body dualities largely controlled by the medical professions. Thus, maternity and related issues such as birth and contraceptive technologies figure as major themes with contributors revealing unresolved ambivalences. Other chapters focus on how women's economic activity can affect their individual health and, potentially, that of others. A further prominent theme shows how, for contemporary women writers, serious illnesses such as cancer and madness in women can be seen as rich metaphors for the ills of a male-dominated society. Duras's alcoholism and Aragon's portrayals of prostitution are also discussed.

Author : Trevor Le Gassick
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0894106597

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Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz by Trevor Le Gassick Pdf

Author : Patricia Mainardi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 030010104X

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Husbands, Wives, and Lovers by Patricia Mainardi Pdf

In this interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early 19th-century France, Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time - adultery. In a period when expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives and lovers became a major theme in theatre, literature and the visual arts. The author demonstrates that this intense interest was historically grounded in the post-revolutionary collision between the new concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives of family and state. duty or happiness more important? Are arranged marriages doomed to be empty of love and poisoned by adultery? Should adulterous wives and their lovers be punished while husbands may commit adultery with impunity? Out of such legal, social and cultural debates ultimately emerged modern bourgeois family values, Mainardi argues. And she illuminates how art, in all its varieties, both influences and is influenced by social change.

Author : Lisa Saltzman,Eric M. Rosenberg
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 158465516X

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Trauma and Visuality in Modernity by Lisa Saltzman,Eric M. Rosenberg Pdf

Essays exploring the role of trauma in modern art.