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Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker. 188 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Employing thc theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Thomas...
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Employing thc theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Thomas Pynchon's V., and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, Booker focuses on gender relations as a locus of struggles for power in human relations generally. He also pays special attention to the work of Samuel Beckett, reading the novels Watt and The Lost Ones to explore the issues of power and domination in an Irish cultural context. For all of the texts read, such issues are explored in terms not only of content but of style and form. What is distinctive about many modern texts, Booker claims, is the reflexive way literary meditations on power, authority, and domination turn inward to involve examinations of textuality and reading as images of the kinds of struggles for mastery that inform society at large. Booker suggests that literary knowledge is of a different order than the traditional theoretical knowledge that is equated with power in the West. "Literature has the potential to explore and illuminate objects of inquiry in a mode of dialogue and performance rather than by seeking to dominate them in the traditional mode of science", he writes. "Especially in the difficult and complex texts of modern literature, successful reading requires that readers and texts work together, pointing toward ways the human drive for mastery can be fulfilled through cooperation rather than through demanding the submission of some Other who is being mastered or dominated".
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Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England » Read Now
by John Michael Archer, Richard Burt. 342 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry » Read Now
by Theresa Tinkle. 298 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book establishes the range of meanings bestowed on the love deities through the later Middle Ages, and draws on feminist and cultural theories to offer new models for interpreting both academic Latin discourses and vernacular poetry.
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The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 » Read Now
by Bert Bender. 440 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance » Read Now
by Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson. 480 pgs.

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...space where sex is explicitly bound up in the exercise...rehearsed in literature, inquisitorial...Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden...Richard. Sex and...
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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature » Read Now
by Donald Palumbo. 312 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...essays, lectures. 3. Sex in literature--Addresses, essays...recurrent motifs as sex-shifting, androgyny...aspects of sexuality in fantastic literature are considered...
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Madonnas and Magdalens: The Origins and Development of Victorian Sexual Attitudes » Read Now
by Eric Trudgill. 336 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction » Read Now
by William A. Cohen. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...implications for literature. The two...inquiry converge in the second...and of a sex scandal demonstrably...ways they put sex into language but in the use they...have for...
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Sex Literature and Censorship » Read Now
by D. H. Lawrence, Harry T. Moore. 122 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the shoddy sex novels now...for such literature has always...paperbound books in the drugstores...this type of literature, at this kind...expressed in...
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Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust » Read Now
by Colleen Lamos. 269 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This original study reevaluates central texts of the modernist canon--Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past--by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. Colleen Lamos' analysis of...
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This original study reevaluates central texts of the modernist canon--Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past--by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. Colleen Lamos' analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, gender categories, and the relation between errant sexuality and literary "mistakes."
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Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous » Read Now
by Emma Wilson. 212 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity, and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis...
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Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity, and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous, her study reveals the formative potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter.
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One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton » Read Now
by James Grantham Turner. 334 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Noteworthy for its historical detail and intellectual incisiveness, this study establishes Milton as a monumental but divided figure--torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage.
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Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction » Read Now
by Keith McMahon. 380 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Taboos in German Literature (Chap. 5 "Of Madness and Masochism: Sexuality in Women's Writing at the Turn of the Century") » Read Now
by David Jackson. 216 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...3. Taboo in literature. 4. Sex in literature. 5. Homosexuality in literature...Inarticulacy: Lesbianism and Language in Post-1945 German Literature Georgina Paul 165 10...
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland ("Gender, Sexuality, and Englishness in Modern Irish Drama and Film" begins on p. 159) » Read Now
by Anthony Bradley, Maryann Gialanella Valiulis. 328 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Social conditions. 4. Women--Ireland--Sexual behavior. 5. Heterosexuality--Ireland. 6. Homosexuality--Ireland. 7. Sex in literature. 8. Irish literature. I. Bradley...