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2. ZOOM IN/ ZOOM OUT.
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TOHĂTAN, Horațiu
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EROTIC literature ,MOTHER-daughter relationship ,ROMANIAN literature ,FICTION ,LITERARY criticism ,LITERARY form ,CANON (Literature) - Abstract
Alex Goldiș's book, ZOOM IN/ ZOOM OUT: Lecturi de critică și literatură contemporană (Readings of contemporary criticism and literature), is a comprehensive exploration of influential texts in Romanian literature and criticism. The book is divided into three parts, with the first focusing on Romanian literary fiction, the second on Romanian criticism, and the third on international theory. Goldiș's reviews and analyses cover a wide range of literary volumes, offering insights into the works of both established and emerging authors. The book provides a valuable resource for understanding the dynamics of contemporary literature and criticism in Romania. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
3. “Aziyadé”: un romanzo tra sogno e realtà.
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BALDUCCI, GIUSEPPE
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MEDIEVALISM ,GAY erotic literature ,CIRCASSIANS - Abstract
This essay examines the debut novel by Pierre Loti Aziyadé, focusing on the relationship between the character of Loti and the young Circassian Aziyadé. Particular attention is also placed on the unrealistic geography of Istanbul, to the point that the city seems to be the setting for a medieval conte, and on Istanbul as a city of pleasure or of the “pâle débauche” by analyzing the homoerotic subtext of the novel. It has been observed that, in the Turkish context, among the potential factors of integration, capable of establishing spaces of freedom within the constrictive meshes of the Islamic ethical system for the success of erotic questions, a leading role must be attributed to the size of Istanbul. There have been many interpretations of the Loti-Aziyadé relationship; but only one seems to offer a broader view of the writer’s relationship with the beautiful Circassian. This interpretation makes use of René Girard’s theory of “désir triangulaire”. The novel is then analyzed in relation to the sources underlying it (Alfred de Musset, Chateaubriand, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Sensational comics: erotic comics, women, and popular subjectivity in neoliberal Mexico.
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Medina, Rafael Alarcón
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SUBJECTIVITY ,NEOLIBERALISM ,ETHNICITY ,CARTOONISTS - Abstract
Adding to the extant literature literature, we propose to approach Mexican comics as literary objects within which sociopolitical, economic and cultural processes of Mexican society are expressed. Instead of focusing on Golden and Silver Age Historietas or contemporary artistic and/or politically aware creations, we address the popular eighties' erotic Sensacionales. Drawing on literary theory and interviews with cartoonists cartoonists, we argue that these comics enable us to understand how changes in gender, class and racial/ethnic relationships in Neoliberal Mexico are symbolically elaborated around female's body and desire, displacing them into arousing narratives about sexually insatiable women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Peripheral Orientalism and the Creation of Arab Literary Precursors in Quinteto de Mogador by Alberto Ruy Sánchez.
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López-Calvo, Ignacio
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ORIENTALISM ,ARABIC literature ,WOMEN in literature ,EROTIC literature - Abstract
This essay explores the intentio operis in the use of transatlantic bridges that are sometimes real, other times rhetorical, and others imaginary that Alberto Ruy Sánchez draws between his country and Morocco. It also looks at the representation of Moroccan space and women, arguing that Ruy Sánchez falls into exoticizing Orientalism with tints of colonial nostalgia, particularly when portraying Moroccan women. Finally, it explores how the author creates his own precursors through the quotes and literary references in his five novels. Presenting himself as a reader of Arab erotic literature and Sufi sacred texts, Ruy Sánchez suggests that he is rewriting classic literary texts, thus creating his own literary lineage and diachronically situating his work within a literary tradition that remains on the margins of Mexican national coordinates to approach, instead, the canon of Arabic literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Reflexiones sobre la literatura de Cassandra Rios: rompiendo estereotipos culturales acerca de la homosexualidad.
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Díaz Cardozo, Leidy Carolina
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LESBIAN erotic literature ,CENSORSHIP - Abstract
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- 2023
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7. Nicolas Chorier: Johannes Meursius: Luisa Sigea de Velasco: Ámor és Vénusz titkai - pajzán szatíra.
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JÁNOS, NAGYILLÉS
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- 2023
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8. Dominants, Submissives, and Bottom-up Text Analysis: Exploring BDSM Roles Through Romantic and Erotic Narratives.
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Crane, Phoenix R. and Ireland, Molly E.
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EROTIC literature ,PSYCHOSEXUAL development ,SEXUAL excitement ,HUMAN sexuality ,INTIMACY (Psychology) - Abstract
Powerplay, or the consensual power exchange between "Dominant" and "submissive" (D/s) role partners, is common practice within BDSM culture. To many BDSM practitioners, their D/s role is an integral part of their sexual identity, informing not only their sexual scripts but also their non-sexual social interactions. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis software was used to process 261 participants' responses to prompts asking them to write erotic and relationship-themed narratives. Using a data-driven approach to model selection, we regressed participants' engagement in BDSM and D/s powerplay role identification on standardized language frequencies. Stories from more active BDSM practitioners' narratives used more perceptual words, suggesting potentially mindful, intimate, and detailed storytelling, whereas non-practitioners used more tentativeness and death in their writings. Moreover, language reflected D/s role attributes, with Dominants exhibiting ownership, responsibility, and other-focus, and submissives referencing power dynamics and self-focus in their responses. Findings are consistent with existing literature on BDSM power relationships and relate to psychosexual well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Introduction.
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De Rycker, Kate and Rossiter, William T.
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ART history ,LANGUAGE teachers ,ART theory ,EROTIC literature ,MYTHOLOGY ,NOSTALGIA ,WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,PARODY - Abstract
21 Christopher Cairns, I Pietro Aretino and the Republic of Venice: Researches on Aretino and His Circle in Venice, 1527-1556 i (Florence: Olschki, 1985). More recently, in 2021 Aretino's position as a major cultural figure was confirmed by the publication of the Brill I Companion to Pietro Aretino i (2021), which serves as a wide-ranging compendium of Aretino scholars from the past thirty years, surveying his various fields of cultural influence. On the mythology of Aretino's death see Harald Hendrix, 'La funzione della morte leggendaria nella mitografia di Pietro Aretino', in I Pietro Aretino nel cinquecentenario della nascita: atti del convegno di Roma-Viterbo-Arezzo (28 settembre-1 ottobre 1992), Toronto (23-24 ottobre 1992), Los Angeles (27-29 ottobre 1992) i (Rome: Salerno, 1995), 453-69. It is precisely this quality that allowed Aretino to prosper in cities far beyond his physical reach or immediate sphere of influence - in London both Harvey and Nashe could hear and identify with Aretino's voice, just as his banned religious works could be heard by Catholics almost a century after his death in Douai. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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10. French Translations of the Chinese Vernacular Erotic Novel of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Brief Overview
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Kaser, Pierre, Li, Defeng, Series Editor, Qi, Lintao, editor, and Tobias, Shani, editor
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- 2022
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11. From 'Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings'.
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Karasick, Adeena and Lehrer, Warren
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APHORISMS & apothegms ,PALIMPSESTS ,ETYMOLOGY ,EROTIC literature - Abstract
Inscribing what Levinas might call 'espace vital' (the space we can survive), 'Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings', (written/composed by Adeena Karasick and visualized/designed by Warren Lehrer), is an ecstatically wrought, never quite post-COVID-19 celebration/exploration of openings. It tracks the pain of openings read through socio-economic, geographic and bodily space. Employing fragmentation, layered language and sonic wordplay, these excerpts explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word 'opening', laced with post-consumerist ironic and erotic language, theoretical discourse, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms, 'Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings' foregrounds language as a material, physical organism of hope – highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices, textures, whispers and codes transporting us through passion, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light. The full volume is forthcoming from Lavender Ink Press, Spring 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. O conhecimento alternativo da Biblioteca Universal Guei contra a injustiça epistêmica na literatura brasileira.
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da Silva Andrade, Diogo Roberto, Meneses Alves, Ana Paula, and Garcês da Silva, Franciéle Carneiro
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- 2023
13. O NATURALISMO COMO PORNOGRAFIA E A HERANÇA LIBERTINA EM O HOMEM, A CARNE E O ABORTO.
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Ferreira MENDES, Thales Sant'Ana
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EROTIC literature ,POPULAR literature ,SEXUAL freedom ,NINETEENTH century ,LITERARY characters ,TWENTIETH century ,NATURALISM - Abstract
Copyright of Itinerários - Revista de Literatura is the property of Itinerarios - Revista de Literatura and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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14. Beauty, Voice, and Wit: Learning Courtship and Sex through Song in Early Eighteenth-Century England.
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Desimone, Alison
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LOVE songs ,EROTICA ,COURTSHIP ,EROTIC literature ,SONGS ,MARRIAGE ,SEXUAL intercourse - Abstract
In early eighteenth-century England, love songs published in musical miscellanies offered audiences the chance to learn about love in all of its forms. Love songs covered a wide range of subjects, with advice that a man or a woman could follow from the earliest stages of courtship to the later stages of a marriage. Other songs were explicit and erotic, introducing the singer or listener to aspects of sexual conduct and intercourse that might inform or caution them on how to behave. This essay compares eighteenth-century song culture to the didactic purposes of conduct books and erotic literature in the eighteenth century. I argue that by purchasing and performing songs, men and women learned new ways of engaging with the opposite sex across a variety of social contexts. As England's attitude towards courtship, marriage, and sex continued to change in the early eighteenth century, song culture connected men and women to the realities of courtship through the performance of shared emotion that elaborated upon their personal experiences. Love songs helped men and women navigate the tensions between their own desire and the behavioral rules and limitations placed on each sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. Solidarity in the Centerfold: Trans Social Safety Networks in the Adult Magazine.
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Adair, Cassius
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EROTIC literature ,PORNOGRAPHY ,TRANSSEXUALISM ,SUBCULTURE periodicals ,CENSORSHIP - Abstract
This essay argues that certain print pornography featuring "crossdresser," "transvestite," and "transsexual" subjects was, counterintuitively, part of a distributed information and care network by and for US transfeminine people between the 1970s and 1990s. While this genre of "transploitation" magazine did reproduce transfeminine bodies as fetish objects, transfeminine individuals themselves also used the adult magazine and bookstore market to distribute clandestine information on hormonal, sartorial, and social self-fashioning and support. This symbiotic relationship with the pornographic allowed information about transfeminity to circulate to individuals with little economic means as well as to reach people who did not have regional or cultural access to the respectable "CD," "TV," or "TS" community media of the era. In this way, these magazines formed part of a social safety network: a shadow system of circulating subcultural knowledges within mainstream media in order to survive legal censorship, medical exclusion, and economic abandonment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. EXPLORING THE ROLE OF PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE ON GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN WESTERN SOCIETY: A REVIEW OF ADVERSE IMPACT ON SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION OF WOMAN IN WEST.
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Kurd, Shehla Anwer, Siddiqui, Ali, and Mugheri, Nadir Ali
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EROTIC literature ,WESTERN society ,EDUCATIONAL background ,CONTENT analysis ,SEX discrimination ,PORNOGRAPHY - Abstract
The paper intends to explore the role of pornographic literature on to create gender discrimination in the western society with critical reference to identify the status of woman in west. The topic remained of great focus in academia in west. The last decade accounts expand of academic western literature to document concepts of analyzing increased consumption of the pornography with its imagery. In recent, the growing concern is observed amongst western commentators and policymakers to present notion of "sexualization" with specific consequences for woman. The present article is a contribution to sketch an academic background to present role of "pornographic literature" to create discrimination in western society through a feminist lens. The paper is qualitative in nature. It is designed to analyze the western literature through content analysis. The material is downloaded from the internet sources. After thorough analysis of pornographic literature, the findings of the study reveals some of the important issues related to identification of woman in west. The two important issues are: 1) the pornographic literature is in process to promote nudity other than to highlight various other aspects related to the origin of pornography and its impact on youth which seems to be obscured and 2) the discussion is deflected from possible ills of normalization of pornography with pornographic images of women only that creates a source of discrimination on side of woman. As a result the adverse effect on her identity in west. Therefore, it is significant to describe the nature of pornographic studies in relation to its origin and its impact on overall society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
17. Writing about the Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei.
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McMahon, Keith
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HUMAN sexuality ,PORNOGRAPHY ,FEMINISM ,PSYCHOANALYSIS ,EROTIC literature - Abstract
In this article, the author discusses the experience of reading novel "Jin Ping Mei" and descriptions of sex in the novel. It mentions new translations, or fields such as gender and sexuality, pornography, feminism and women's studies, psychoanalytic theory, or the now rich scholarship on Chinese sexual culture itself. It also mentions elegant, figurative, and euphemistic language to instruct men sensual and erotic literature, especially poetry.
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- 2023
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18. Towards a theory of libertine temporality : time, legacy, and failure in 'Clarissa', 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', and 'Juliette'
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Froh, Thomas, Gladfelder, Hal, and Brillaud, Jerome
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809.3 ,Juliette ,Samuel Richardson ,Choderlos de Laclos ,Les Liaisons Dangereuses ,Clarissa ,Dangerous Liaisons ,Marquis de Sade ,eighteenth-century literature ,epistolary ,libertine ,libertinism ,literature ,the novel ,eighteenth century ,temporality ,erotic literature ,time - Abstract
This thesis is a series of textual studies which posits that key libertine characters in the latter half of the eighteenth century possess a cohesive and unique attitude towards time. The works reviewed are Clarissa (1748) by Samuel Richardson, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos, and Juliette (1797) by the Marquis de Sade. The shared sense of temporality across the libertine characters of these works manifest in four key thematic parallels. The first theme is a conflict between the libertine characters role as the creator of a transgressive narrative and libertinisms emphasis on the hedonistic moment of pleasure. Each demands a different attitude towards time and this creates an underlying tension which the libertine must attempt to resolve. Second is a desire to create a legacy, which manifests as a desire to narrate. This is often seen in their comparison to other libertine figures both immediate and historical, and informs the libertine characters consideration of past and future. Third, the libertine character attempts to reconcile the tension between narration and moment, and still establish a legacy, through a concept of articulated time: the careful moderation of ones actions in order to establish a degree of control over temporality. Yet the fourth and final theme identified is failure, as the libertine character is unable to maintain this articulated time, and by extension sees a general failure of his or her respective libertine projects. While the individual aspects of the libertine understanding of time in these works might be seen in other literature, taken as a whole they produce a cohesive sense of libertine temporality unique to fiction from latter half of the eighteenth century. This study sheds new light and meanings on the most significant libertine characters from this period, and reveals the way in which their sense of time, and the history of libertine writing and thinking before them, frames and informs each of their actions. This analysis does not purport to be applicable to all libertine writing, but rather presents a critical insight that reinforces the literary and cultural significance of major works of libertine fiction from the eighteenth century.
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- 2018
19. Decolonizing Desire: The Indigenous YA Erotics of Cynthia Leitich Smith's Hearts Unbroken.
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Suhr-Sytsma, Mandy
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EROTIC literature ,DECOLONIZATION ,PROTAGONISTS (Persons) ,VIOLENCE - Abstract
This essay examines intersecting depictions of sexual, representational, and political desire in the 2018 YA novel Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee). Engaging Indigenous erotics theory alongside close readings, I characterize the Indigenous YA erotics emerging from Smith's novel in terms of "decolonizing desire," signifying both the novel's decolonizing approach to erotic desire and its intersecting portrayal of a broader desire for decolonization. I argue that the erotic expression of the novel's young Indigenous female protagonist intertwines with other forms of expression to illuminate settler colonial violence and challenge dominant representations that propel it. Her erotic experiences, moreover, enable her and others to embrace Indigenous joy and to explore desire's role in imagining and working towards decolonization. Finally, I contend, Hearts Unbroken strongly appeals to young readers and uniquely adds to Indigenous erotics via its portrayal of desire as malleable and its implication that we, too, can change what and how we desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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20. Of Bodies, Flesh and Pedagogy: Bodily Crossings in Present Day Education.
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Ribera, Jordi Planella, Piquerm, Marc Pallarès, and Santos, Adalberto Hernadez
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TATTOOING ,PRAXIS (Process) ,ART history ,EROTIC literature ,LUST ,BORDERLANDS ,AESTHETICS education - Abstract
These two models end up creating binary constructions of the body realities, then produce normalised bodies and a-normalised bodies, bodies that are within the normal canons and bodies who live beyond the borders of bodily canonisation. There is no doubt that too often we limit ourselves to thinking and understanding the body as flesh, as something that only has and only offers an anatomical dimension. This is why we should speak of the bodies that also need to be flesh; perhaps we could speak of flesh-and-body as something united.[5] The demand for flesh goes beyond (or maybe before) the claim to the body, from the metaphorisation, enculturation or poeticisation of that flesh, from the raw materials that we bring to our interactions with the world that surrounds us. The Christian vision of the body splintered from the soul is enhanced with the Cartesian distinction of the res cogitans and res extensa.[7] It is a body that later would be seen and understood as a machine body, a controlled body, a medicalised body, a rehabilitated body or a body without organs. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
21. Dame Wang's Dumplings: Mediating the Obscene in Manchu Translations of Erotic Literature at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.
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Vedal, Nathan
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EROTIC literature ,LITERATURE translations ,LIBRARIES & publishers ,POLITICAL persecution ,HYPERSEXUALITY - Abstract
This article examines the surprising attention to taboo works of Chinese erotic literature within the corpus of early Manchu literary translations, focusing on the Manchu interpretations of Jinpingmei (The plum in the golden vase), Xixiang ji (The story of the western wing), and Rouputuan (The carnal prayer mat). The Qing court is well known to have sponsored translations of core works of the Chinese classical and historical tradition, while simultaneously banning texts perceived as heterodox, lascivious, or politically sensitive. A lively engagement among Manchu commercial publishers with the literary tradition, including vernacular novels and plays, highlights the broader reading habits of the early Qing Manchu reader in practice. In mediating erotic material for this new audience, translators employed a variety of interpretive choices, ranging from expurgation to the opposite extreme of hyper-sexualization. This study situates these translation practices within the broader Manchu justifications of reading this material, shifting our attention from the conventional representation of Manchu literary repression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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22. The Ladies Delight
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Anonymous and Anonymous
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- Erotic literature, Penis--Poetry
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This curious brief pamphlet is some 30 pages long and contains erotic verses. The poem is funny and witty.
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- 2021
23. The Romance of Lust
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Anonymous and Anonymous
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- Erotic literature, Corporal punishment, Sexual dominance and submission
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The Romance of Lust (1873-1876) is an anonymously written pornographic novel. Published by infamous London pornographer William Lazenby, The Romance of Lust appeared in four volumes and immediately drew condemnation from the British authorities. Although its author remains unknown, scholars believe either William Simpson Potter or Edward Sellon wrote the text. Frequently censored, The Romance of Lust influenced countless authors of erotica from the Victorian era onward. Charlie Roberts has always felt different. Born with an abnormally large penis, he finds himself tempted into sexual experience at a young age. Soon, he develops an uncontrollable desire for the human body, and begins to have sex with everyone from his governesses to his own sisters Eliza and Mary. As he gets older, a whole new world of lust becomes available, and Charlie begins to feel attracted to men. Filled with detailed scenes of erotic acts, including orgies, fellatio, cunnilingus, masturbation, anal sex, and double penetration, The Romance of Lust raised more than just eyebrows when it first appeared in print. Condemned for obscenity and often censored by authorities, the novel is recognized today as an important work of Victorian erotica and has inspired generations of pornographers around the world. This edition of The Romance of Lust is a classic of pornographic literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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- 2021
24. KamaSutra
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Vãtsyãyana and Vãtsyãyana
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- Erotic literature, Sexual intercourse--Early works to 1800, Love--Early works to 1800
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The'Kama Sutra'is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour in Sanskrit literature written by Vãtsyãyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted poetry verses. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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- 2020
25. Calling the Shots : A Box Set
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S. Dora and S. Dora
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- Gay men--Fiction, Gay erotic literature, Sexual dominance and submission--Fiction
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FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF GAY ROMANCE, S. DORACalling the Shots - the complete box set1 - Facing the Truth Sometimes the question being asked, might not be the one that actually needs to be answered.2 - The Right Direction New to BDSM, Dominant Isaac learns how to bring his sub Tom to new heights during a weekend of pain and pleasure.3 - Becoming Sir Isaac prefers to keep the D/s part of his relationship with Tom strictly private. One day, however, he reads about a non-commercial BDSM club with a playroom for hire...I want you to tell me what to do.This simple statement is the start of more than an afternoon of kinky sex between committed, and very much in love, couple Isaac and Tom.Tom wants to be dominated by his older lover, and he has no problems admitting to his needs. Isaac wants to dominate Tom, but for him it's not quite that simple.How to balance elements of Dominance and submission in a relationship between equals? What if Isaac realises BDSM will influence every detail of their relationship?Join Isaac on his journey to become the Dominant he's meant to be.
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- 2020
26. Forbidden Fruit
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Anonymous Anonymous and Anonymous Anonymous
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- Erotic literature
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Forbidden Fruit is a classic Victorian erotic novel, published in 1898. It contains graphic sexual descriptions and themes.'Come into bed, and cuddle me, Percy, I feel so chilly to night, she whispered. Only too pleased I nestled myself by her side, still kissing and calling her my loving Auntie. Fate had ordained I was to lose my maidenhead that night, young as I was. Her hand passed all over me, caressing every part, and she freely abandoned her bosoms to my impassioned...'(Goodreads)
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- 2020
27. The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
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Pierre Louÿs and Pierre Louÿs
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- Erotic literature
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A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis, but it was only after his death that Louÿs'true legacy was to be discovered: nearly 900 pounds of erotic manuscripts were found in his home, all of them immediately scattered among collectors and many subsequently lost. Since then, it has become clear that Louÿs is the greatest French writer of erotica there ever was. The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners was the first of his erotic manuscripts to see publication, and it also remains his most outrageous—an erotic classic in which humor takes precedence over arousal. By means of shockingly filthy advice—ostensibly offered “for use in educational establishments”—couched in a hilariously parodic admonitory tone, Louÿs turns late-nineteenth-century manners roundly on their head, with ass prominently skyward. Whether offering rules for etiquette in church, school or home, or outlining a girl's duties toward family, neighbor or God, Louÿs manages to mock every institution and leave no taboo unsullied. The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners has only grown more scandalous and subversive since its first appearance in 1926.
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- 2020
28. Meta-Epic Reflection in Twenty-First-Century Rewritings of Homer, or: The Meta-Epic Novel.
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LINNE, LENA
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PATRIARCHY ,EPIC poetry ,GAY erotic literature - Abstract
The present article discusses meta-epic reflection in a selection of twenty-firstcentury novels based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It defines instances of "metagenre" and "metageneric texts" as texts which, explicitly or implicitly, reflect upon the nature of another genre or of their own genre; novels which comment on the features of the epic qualify as "meta-epic novels." In its main part, the article distinguishes between three modes of meta-epic reflection in the contemporary novel. It briefly discusses Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic (2017) as an affirmative take on the ancient genre and Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad (2005) as a subversive one. Subsequently, it focusses on Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships (2019) as an ambivalent approach to the epic. In this novel, meta-epic reflection takes centre stage through the character of Calliope, the ancient muse of epic poetry, who advocates a reform of her own genre: dissatisfied with its patriarchal traditions, Calliope calls for a new kind of epic which foregrounds the fates of the female characters. A Thousand Ships, which narrates the tragic stories of the women affected by the Trojan War, adheres to the rules of this new sort of epic. Adapting a term from Henry Fielding, the article reads A Thousand Ships as a "tragic epic poem in prose"--a prose epic for a twenty-firstcentury readership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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29. Eros und weiblicher Logos: Perspektiven auf die BD érotique au féminin.
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Nickel, Beatrice
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GENDER differences (Sociology) ,WOMEN'S sexual behavior ,EROTIC literature ,LUST ,SEXUAL excitement ,WOMEN'S writings ,EROTICA - Abstract
Copyright of Lendemains is the property of Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co.KG and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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30. Na Zona...: representações da prostituição na belle époque carioca a partir de conto pornográfico (1914).
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Cardoso, Erika Natasha
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EROTIC literature ,CENTRAL business districts ,TWENTIETH century ,SEX work ,NEWSPAPERS ,HUMAN trafficking - Abstract
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- 2022
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31. The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian Erotic Novel
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Anonymous Anonymous and Anonymous Anonymous
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- Erotic literature, Corporal punishment, Sexual dominance and submission
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The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. Henry Spencer Ashbee discusses this novel in one of his bibliographies of erotic literature. The novel is told in first person, and the protagonist of the novel is Charlie Roberts. Charlie possesses a large penis, much virility, and a seemingly insatiable sexual appetite. The novel begins with'There were three of us—Mary, Eliza, and myself.'Charlie describes his sexual initiation as an adolescent—as he is'approaching fifteen'. He catalogs his sexual experiences including incest with his sisters Eliza and Mary, sex with his governesses, and his later sexual exploits with various male and female friends, and acquaintances. Besides incest, the book deals with a variety of sexual activities, including orgies, masturbation, lesbianism, flagellation, fellatio, cunnilingus, gay sex, anal sex, and double penetration. Taboo subjects such as homosexuality, incest, and pedophilia are common themes in the novel. (Wikipedia)
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- 2019
32. The Ladies Delight
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Anonymous Anonymous and Anonymous Anonymous
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- Erotic literature, Penis--Poetry
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This brief pamphlet, also called'The Tree of Life'was published in 1732. It is outrageously scatological but in a truly brilliant way. It is conceivable that some would read it and not realise what the subject of the story was (the male member), with its not too carefully disguised. (Goodreads)
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- 2019
33. Joaninha ou l'avatar portugais d'Herculine Barbin.
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CUROPOS, FERNANDO
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LESBIANISM ,FRENCH literature ,EROTIC literature ,NINETEENTH century ,CONVENTS - Abstract
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- 2021
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34. Narrative and Other Readings in the Book of Esther.
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Trojanowska, Mariola
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BOOKS & reading ,FOLKLORE ,ADULTS ,NARRATIVES ,FICTIONAL characters ,EROTIC literature - Published
- 2021
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35. Joaninha ou l'avatar portugais d'Herculine Barbin
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Fernando Curopos
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Arsénio de Chatenay ,Herculine Barbin ,erotic literature ,homosexuality in Portugal ,queer studies ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Avec l’abolition de l’Inquisition (1821) et la montée du libéralisme, le Portugal du début du XIXe siècle voit surgir une production de littérature licencieuse. Si les best-sellers du genre sont avant tout des traductions, les écrivains du cru commencent à imiter la littérature libertine française, notamment les ouvrages mettant en scène la débauche au couvent et les amours lesbiennes. Arsénio de Chatenay sera l’un d’eux avec son Os Jogos Lésbios ou os Amores de Joaninha (1877). Néanmoins, son roman préfigure davantage la littérature décadente puisqu’il choisit pour héroïne un(e) hermaphrodite élevée dans un couvent, l’avatar portugais et queer d’Herculine Barbin.
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- 2021
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36. Sexualidad y resistencia en Panfleto: Erótica y feminismo, de María Moreno.
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DOMÍNGUEZ GALVÁN, ZARADAT
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FEMINISM ,EROTIC literature ,TRANSGENDER people ,SUBALTERN ,FEMINISTS ,PLEASURE - Abstract
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- 2021
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37. Vintage Erotica: Satyricon, Kama Sutra, Decameron, and Fanny Hill
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Petronius, John Cleland, Petronius, and John Cleland
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- Erotic literature
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According to Wikipedia:'Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry.''The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses.'Kāma'which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and'sūtra'literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world; Kama sutra is not an exclusive sex manual, it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.''The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1351/3. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic.''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered'the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel.'One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history,[4] it has become a synonym for obscenity.'
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- 2018
38. The Romance of Lust
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Anonymous and Anonymous
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- Erotic literature, Corporal punishment, Sexual dominance and submission
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Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. The Romance of Lust is an erotic novel published anonymously in the Victorian era between 1873-1876. Given the contents of the book it was highly controversial and heavily censored for many years following its publication.
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- 2018
39. Vintage Erotica: Satyricon, Kama Sutra, Decameron, Fanny Hill, and My Secret Life
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Petronius, Giovanni Boccaccio, John Cleland, Petronius, Giovanni Boccaccio, and John Cleland
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- Erotic literature
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According to Wikipedia:'Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry.''The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses.'Kāma'which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and'sūtra'literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world; Kama sutra is not an exclusive sex manual, it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.''The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1351/3. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic.''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered'the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel.'One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history,[4] it has become a synonym for obscenity.''My Secret Life, by'Walter', is the memoir of a Victorian gentleman's sexual development and experiences. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888... It has been described as'one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written'
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- 2018
40. The sexual life of Catherine M [Book Review]
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- 2005
41. Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
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Davis, Susan G., author and Davis, Susan G.
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- 2019
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42. White Women and Latina Readers' Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Reyes, Daisy Verduzco, Speer, Annika C., and Denes, Amanda
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EROTIC literature ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,HISPANIC American women ,ROMANTIC love ,SEXUAL excitement - Abstract
The consumption of erotic literature by women has been largely unexamined by sociologists. This article analyzes 36 Latina and 47 White women readers' evaluations of Fifty Shades of Grey and offers important insights on how women interact with the themes of romance and eroticism as they reflect on the text. We identify three types of reactions to the text: categorization of the relationship as abusive, an appreciation for the power of the woman protagonist to change her lover for the "better," and a focus on the gendered inequities in the romantic relationship, yet simultaneously feeling aroused by the sexual content. In theorizing the third reaction, we introduce the concept of erotic ambivalence to explain how even as some women seek to escape into the world of the erotic, they must often balance this desire within the gendered inequities featured in storylines. Our findings suggest that women are critical of sexist tropes in fiction, and these critiques might vary ethnoracially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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43. DEMONUL ZEFLEMELEI JUNIMISTE.
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TUDURACHI, Ligia
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EROTIC literature ,LITERARY form ,GESTURE ,THREAD (Textiles) ,CONVERSATION ,LITERARY criticism ,PORNOGRAPHIC films - Abstract
From persiflage to pornographic literature, everything in Junimea is an alternative form of discourse deconstructing to the official one. The cultural society from Iași chooses a “lateral” way of representation, moving on a line parallel to the main one. Persiflage is used in order to define a model of salon conversation but also as an instrument of literary criticism, and thus a stimulator of literary production: it becomes a technique of the critical performance, a characteristic evaluative gesture. Originating in the core of the critical act, this lateral thread almost engages a manifest dissent - which will then be emphasized by its emergence in the profane, detabooed forms of pornographic literature. Representing itself on such a lateral thread, Junimea makes possible the construction of its image as a Balkan, Eastern society; and therefore as a particular, local way of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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44. الادب الإيروتيكي والتمرد في الرواية العربية النسوية قراءة في نماذج....
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جبار عبد ضاحي
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EROTIC literature ,STRUCTURAL components ,PORNOGRAPHY ,POETRY (Literary form) ,LITERATURE ,MEMOIRS ,EROTICA - Abstract
Copyright of Journal of Anbar University for Languages & Literature / Magallat Gami'at Al-Anbar Li-Lugat Wa-al-Adabl is the property of Republic of Iraq Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research (MOHESR) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2021
45. Change in the Popularity of Transgressive Content in Written Erotica between 2000 and 2016.
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Seehuus, Martin, Handy, Ariel B., and Stanton, Amelia M.
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CONTENT analysis ,SEX videos ,EROTIC literature ,VIOLENCE ,INCEST - Abstract
There is a widely held belief that the amount and intensity of transgressive content in pornography have been rising. Reliably assessing for such an increase, however, is complicated by methodological factors including hand-coding content using conflicting a priori definitions of what constitutes transgressive content. In response to those limitations, the present study used the results of a published empirical content analysis of ~250,000 erotic stories written over 16 years to determine if the amount or popularity of transgressive content (stories high in the themes of violence, family (incest), or BDSM) has changed in that timeframe. Results from the present study indicated no meaningful increase in either the amount of content with those themes or popularity (as measured by story views per day) of any of the three transgressive themes within the erotic narratives over the 16-year period of analysis. These results, in addition to recent research presenting similar findings within pornographic video, do not support popular perceptions that erotic material is becoming increasingly transgressive. Rather, such content within internet-based erotic material, and particularly erotic narratives, appears to be relatively consistent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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46. The "Dutch Conrad" Louis Couperus's De stille kracht (The Hidden Force, 1900): working between Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde.
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Boehmer, Elleke and van't Veer, Coen
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LITERARY characters ,GAY erotic literature - Published
- 2021
47. The Shock of Learning: Literary Pornography in the Classroom.
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Davidson, Guy
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PORNOGRAPHY ,PORNOGRAPHIC films ,TORTURE ,EROTIC literature ,CLASSROOMS ,EROTIC stories - Published
- 2021
48. Les visages du libertinage: Théroigne de Méricourt et le Catéchisme libertin.
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Monroy Márquez, Alfredo
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ANONYMOUS authors ,EROTIC literature ,LITERATURE ,PORTRAIT painting - Abstract
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- 2021
49. Shameful Kisses: A History of the Reception – and Rejection – of Homoeroticism in Catullus.
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Lewis, Maxine and Robertson, Christina
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POETICS ,GAY erotic literature - Abstract
The history of Catullus' reception has been one of exclusion as much as inclusion. Since the seventeenth century, many Anglophone writers have used Catullus as inspiration for their translations, poetic adaptations, and novels. A great deal of these works occluded the role that male homoeroticism played in the Latin poems, especially by omitting Catullus' male love object, Juventius. Writers have employed various techniques to deal with Catullus' 'problematic' pagan mores: choosing to ignore the suite of poems associated with homoeroticism (for example, Wilder 1948); bowdlerising homoerotic language (such as Nott 1795, Cranstoun 1867, and Macnaghten 1899); and performing 'gender swaps' to portray male-male relationships as male-female (a technique employed to memorable effect by de La Chapelle in 1680, and later by Lamb in 1821). Excision of whole poems or bowdlerisation of obscene terms was also often used to deal with Catullus' depictions of male-on-male sexual violence, a topic regularly entwined with the gentler homoerotic content. This article surveys, analyses, and explains this aspect of Catullus' reception in English from 1659–1915. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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50. Mein Handwerker, mein Meister : Eine Soft-BDSM-Lovestory - Teil 2
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Erosique, Aphroshi and Erosique, Aphroshi
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- Erotic literature, Bondage (Sexual behavior)--Fiction, Sadomasochism--Fiction
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Die Erlebnisse gehen weiter und die BDSM-Beziehung vertieft sich.Natürlich bleibt das Leben nicht ungetrübt von Verlockungen, welche das junge Pärchen entzweien könnten, trotz ihrer lustvollen Gemeinsamkeiten.
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- 2016
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