Modern Classics Eroticism

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141195568

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Modern Classics Eroticism by Georges Bataille Pdf

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000061571331

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Eroticism by Georges Bataille Pdf

Ranging from Freud to Sade, this far-reaching and controversial study of the underlying sexual basis of religion and philosophy, especially in relation to death, includes the results of research into taboo, religious ecstacy and the erotic impulse.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913674

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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Pdf

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241215395

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Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille Pdf

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.

Author : Rich Taylor
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0517660946

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Modern Classics by Rich Taylor Pdf

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258130785

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Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille Pdf

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107004764

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Ars Erotica by Richard Shusterman Pdf

Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.

Author : Valentina Cilescu
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472105578

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Kiss of Death (Modern Erotic Classics) by Valentina Cilescu Pdf

In the forgotten and bricked-up cellars of Winterbourne Hall, the Master's spirit feasted . . . At last, his deliverance was at hand. Hidden deep in the English countryside, Winterbourne Hall is the finest whorehouse in the land, where no fantasy is too wild to be acted out, no desire is too outrageous to be satisfied - and in its splendid isolation, secrets stay safe. Andreas Hunt is a cynical tabloid journalist. He lives a louche lifestyle, with any number of willing women at his fingertips - but he doesn't want most women. Most women bore him. He wants Mara, the luscious-bodied white witch, who has seduced him thoroughly. Where Mara leads, he follows - and she leads him to Winterbourne, where commences a sexual adventure that will soon become a deliciously forbidden nightmare: for at Winterbourne, Andreas will meet the Master, a real life sex vampire . . . Kiss of Death is razor sharp erotica at its edgiest and most thrilling. The first in a captivating series.

Author : G. F. Green
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141970776

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In the Making by G. F. Green Pdf

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce him to all the pleasures, pains and perplexities of first love. A unique, enchanting and complicated coming-of-age story about the passion between two young boys, In the Making is widely hailed as G. F. Green's masterpiece, and is now in print for the first time since its original publication in 1952.

Author : Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199727933

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Siva by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty Pdf

Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama.

Author : Bradford K. Mudge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107184077

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The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature by Bradford K. Mudge Pdf

This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.

Author : Melissa E. Sanchez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190208660

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Erotic Subjects by Melissa E. Sanchez Pdf

Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than dismiss such assumptions as mere conventions, Melissa Sanchez uncovers the political import of early modern literature's fascination with eroticized violence. Focusing on representations of masochism, sexual assault, and cross-gendered identification, Sanchez re-examines the work of politically active writers from Philip Sidney to John Milton. She argues that political allegiance and consent appear far less conscious and deliberate than traditional historical narratives allow when Sidney depicts abjection as a source of both moral authority and sexual arousal; when Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare make it hard to distinguish between rape and seduction; when Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish depict women who adore treacherous or abusive lovers; when court masques stress the pleasures of enslavement; or when Milton insists that even Edenic marriage is hopelessly pervaded by aggression and self-loathing. Sanchez shows that this literature constitutes an alternate tradition of political theory that acknowledges the irrational and perverse components of power and thereby disrupts more conventional accounts of politics as driven by self-interest, false consciousness, or brute force. Erotic Subjects will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern literary and political history, as well as those interested in the histories of gender, sexuality, and affect more generally.

Author : Ronnie Ancona
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032229885

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Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes by Ronnie Ancona Pdf

Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal that love conquers time and the notion that he succeeds because he eschews illusions about love's ability to endure, this book challenges the assumption that temporality must inevitably pose a threat to the erotic. The author argues that temporality, understood as the contingency the male poet/lover wants to but cannot control, explains why love "fails" in Horace's Odes.

Author : Jack Morin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sex (Psychology)
ISBN : 074720795X

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The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin Pdf

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666501

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The Transformation of Intimacy by Anthony Giddens Pdf

The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what the author calls plastic sexuality - sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction - is analysed in terms of the long-term development of the modern social order and social influences of the last few decades. Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, holds out the possibility of a radical democratization of the personal sphere. This book will appeal to a large general audience as well as being essential reading for students and professionals.