The Erotics Of History

Author : Donald L. Donham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968875

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The Erotics of History by Donald L. Donham Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans’ race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.

Author : Patrick J. Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Erotic literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021686014

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A History of Erotic Literature by Patrick J. Kearney Pdf

Author : Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816502424

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Sovereign Erotics by Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda,Lisa Tatonetti Pdf

Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book’s publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities within Native Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering together the work of established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spans genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, family, love, and loss) and represents a watershed moment in Native American and Indigenous literatures, Queer studies, and the intersections between the two. Collaboratively, the pieces in Sovereign Erotics demonstrate not only the radical diversity among the voices of today’s Indigenous GLBTQ2 writers but also the beauty, strength, and resilience of Indigenous GLBTQ2 people in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Louise Esme Cruz, Paula Gunn Allen, Qwo-Li Driskill, Laura Furlan, Janice Gould, Carrie House, Daniel Heath Justice, Maurice Kenny, Michael Koby, M. Carmen Lane, Jaynie Lara, Chip Livingston, Luna Maia, Janet McAdams, Deborah Miranda, Daniel David Moses, D. M. O’Brien, Malea Powell, Cheryl Savageau, Kim Shuck, Sarah Tsigeyu Sharp, James Thomas Stevens, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, William Raymond Taylor, Joel Waters, and Craig Womack

Author : Virginia Burrus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200720

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The Sex Lives of Saints by Virginia Burrus Pdf

Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula, The Sex Lives of Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference to the work of Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille, David Halperin and Geoffrey Harpham, Leo Bersani and Jean Baudrillard. Burrus subsequently proceeds through close, performative readings of the earliest Lives of Saints, mostly dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries—Jerome's Lives of Paul, Malchus, Hilarion, and Paula; Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina; Augustine's portrait of Monica; Sulpicius Severus's Life of Martin; and the slightly later Lives of so-called harlot saints. Queer, s/m, and postcolonial theories are among the contemporary discourses that prove intriguingly resonant with an ancient art of "saintly" loving that remains, in Burrus's reading, promisingly mobile, diverse, and open-ended.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780679724698

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The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault Pdf

Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

Author : Ove Brusendorff,Poul Henningsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Sex
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006680651

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A History of Eroticism: Twentieth century by Ove Brusendorff,Poul Henningsen Pdf

Author : Nicholas Andrew Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139434775

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Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory by Nicholas Andrew Miller Pdf

In Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Arguing that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing, Miller investigates a series of case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses Ireland's self-construction through external or 'foreign' discourses such as the cinema, and proposes readings of Yeats and Joyce as 'counter-memorialists'. Combining theoretical and historical approaches, Miller shows how the modernist handling of history transforms both memory and the story of the past by highlighting readers' investments in histories that are produced, specifically and concretely, through local acts of reading. This original study will attract scholars of Modernism, Irish studies, film and literary theory.

Author : Sanjay K. Gautam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226348445

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Foucault and the Kamasutra by Sanjay K. Gautam Pdf

Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself.

Author : Lucinda Jarrett
Publisher : Rivers Oram Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X004190807

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Stripping in Time by Lucinda Jarrett Pdf

An illustrated history of stripping and erotic dancing. The book follows the history of erotic dancing from the 19th century London music halls, the European cafe cultures, the US, the Scandinavian nightclubs of the 1960s to present day Eastern Europe, where the artists are increasingly turning to prostitution to earn a living.

Author : Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674018815

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Wagner and the Erotic Impulse by Laurence Dreyfus Pdf

Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic high style as central to his art, especially after devising an anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “metaphysics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simultaneously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fashioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never before—how music could act on erotic impulse.

Author : Ingela Nilsson
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Erotic literature, Greek
ISBN : 9788763507905

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Plotting with Eros by Ingela Nilsson Pdf

This volume aims at providing both students and scholars with a series of discussions of the long tradition of reading and writing the erotic, seen from a number of different perspectives.

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Crossing Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000847083

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Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde Pdf

Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 083875662X

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The Erotics of War in German Romanticism by Patricia Anne Simpson Pdf

In The Erotics of War in German Romanticism, Patricia Anne Simpson explores the ways early nineteenth-century German philosophers, poets, and artists represent war and erotic desire. The author argues that gender is connected to a larger debate about the construction of the self in relation to a community at a time that this definition is under revision. She analyzes the culture of war as it shapes the bonds of fraternal, familial, and eventually national identity. Simpson defines the erotics of war as discursive attempts to assert the priority of ethical identity and citizenship over individualized desire. The seemingly ancillary problem of female desire emerges not as a marginal issue, but as the focal point of a debate about identity.

Author : Jessie Hock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812252729

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The Erotics of Materialism by Jessie Hock Pdf

In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a central role for verse in the practice of natural philosophy and gave the figurative realm a powerful claim on the real by maintaining that mental and poetic images have material substance and a presence beyond the mind or page. Attending to Lucretius's own emphasis on poetry, Hock shows that early modern readers and writers were alert to the fact that Lucretian materialism entails a theory of the imagination and, ultimately, a poetics, which they were quick to absorb and adapt to their own uses. Focusing on the work of Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, The Erotics of Materialism demonstrates how these poets drew on Lucretius to explore poetry's power to act in the world. Hock argues that even as classical atomist ideas contributed to the rise of empirical scientific methodologies that downgraded the capacity of the human imagination to explain material phenomena, Lucretian poetics came to stand for a poetry that gives the imagination a purchase on the real, from the practice of natural philosophy to that of politics. In her reading of Lucretian influence, Hock reveals how early modern poets were invested in what Lucretius posits as the materiality of fantasy and his expression of it in a language of desire, sex, and love. For early modern poets, Lucretian eroticism was poetic method, and De rerum natura a treatise on the poetic imagination, initiating an atomist genealogy at the heart of the lyric tradition.

Author : Carolee Schneemann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 026269297X

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Imaging Her Erotics by Carolee Schneemann Pdf

A visual and written record of the work of pioneer painter-performance artist Carolee Schneemann.