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... the English renaissance stage as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity, the essays in "Erotic Politics" examine the nature of sexual definition and desire in early modern culture. Recent studies of Renaissance ...

... we fully envision the relationship between racism and the personal and political dimensions of our desire. The Erotic Life of Racism provocatively redirects our attention to a desire no longer independent of racism but ...

... on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An ...

... on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An ...

... that appeared in ancient Daoist sex manuals, in classical novels of the Ming Dynasty, and in collections of erotic prints. The result is a dazzling array of voices that speak the universal language of desire. For the ...

... , as Karla Jay writes in the introduction, invites readers to consider the implications, variations, and complexities of lesbian erotics. In the end, it is our sexual lives that mark us as outlaws. Therefore, we need to ...

... of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a ...

... 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 ...

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, ...

... 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 ...

This volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious series reprinting all of Guido Crepax's most significant comics is the second of two volumes featuring Crepax's comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon. This volume ...

In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice. Fanny wanted urgently to know whether she should continue encouraging her most ardent suitor, what the future would ...

Una celebracion del amor y el erotismo, una invitacion a despojarse de los verbos y encender los adjetivos para beber y saborear el amor. A partir de rescates literarios de poetas desconocidos, heteronimos, poetas ...

This collection of essays represents the first book to explore the complex influence of homosexuality on the life and fiction of Henry James. An extensive biographical introduction is complemented by an essay documenting ...

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself ...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with ...

What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? what motivates these writers and characterizes their work? In this work, Elizabeth Meese examines the ways in which the experiences of the text ...

... on Radio 4 for eighteen years before moving to Times Radio, and has judged the Booker Prize. The Erotic Review is the iconic magazine devoted to two things: great writing and sex. Author: Mariella Frostrup. Format: Flexi ...

Whether you're simply curious about submission or regularly revel in the delights of BDSM, these sixty-nine erotic short stories about submissives will turn you on! From participating in a musical recital that takes a ...

... sex industry of present-day Thailand, Asian culture has traditionally celebrated the erotic. This groundbreaking anthology of erotic ethnic literature explodes stereotypes while offering a universal insight into intimate ...

... literature; Dacia Maraini writes on the literature of eroticism penned by women writers that ingeniously manages to be erotic in its own right; and Rossana Campo, in one of the most entertaining entries, offers a hip ...

... bestselling Brown Sugar series, this fourth instalment brings together the finest established and up-and-coming black erotic writers. In Greg Tate's A Ballistic Affair', a beautiful performance artist drawn to men with ...

... her publishing ventures with eager anticipation. Chocolate Flava is the first in a series of collections of great erotic fiction edited by Zane, the reigning queen of erotica. Based on the Featured Erotica section of her ...

... . Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Memoirs True Stories Erotic Confessions & True Stories Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Society & Culture Ethical ...

... her to remove her jacket and silk blouse... So begins Belinda Blinked, Rocky Flintstone's now-legendary porno (sorry, erotic novel), and so began My Dad Wrote A Porno , the outrageously funny podcast begun by Rocky's son ...

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... to remove her jacket and silk blouse... So begins Belinda Blinked , Rocky Flintstone's now-legendary porno (sorry, erotic novel), and so began MY DAD WROTE A PORNO , the outrageously funny podcast begun by Rocky's son ...

... : Cindy Weinstein. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction Books Biographies & True Stories Biographies True Stories Erotic Confessions & True Stories Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory ...

... Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies True Stories Erotic Confessions & True Stories Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Literature ...

... by your favourite author, perhaps you won't, but the excitement is in the journey. Twenty-seven erotic stories, anonymously written by: Robert Olen Butler, Catherine Chung, Trent Dalton, Heidi Durrow, Tony Eprile, Louise ...

... think you know what goes in in the bedroom between femmes and butches, these 22 shorts will delight you with erotic surprises. In Joy Parks's delicious 'Sweet Thing,' the new femme librarian in town shows a butch baker a ...

... : Joseph Brent. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Biographies & True Stories Biographies True Stories Erotic Confessions & True Stories Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary ...

... them to the opposite sex? In 24 short chapters Alina Reyes writes in a range of styles: she can be erotic, poetic, humorous and candid. She describes her fantasies and her relationship with her own body. Alina Reyes also ...

... Gordon. Format: Hardcover Non-Fiction Books Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies True Stories Erotic Confessions & True Stories Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary ...

... on the fascinating world she introduced in Liquid Lies. About the Author Angela Knight is an American author of mostly erotic fantasy. She was a reporter for ten years and a comic book author. She lives in South Carolina ...

... secrets, girls who drown their voluptuousness, defenders of free love, and terrible girls who provoke erotic fervors or deadly emotional collapses. Artemisa T llez undertook the task of gathering unrestrained behaviors ...

Happy howlidays and merry yiffmas from Red Ferret Press! This anthology contains twelve erotic furry tales for the holiday season, complete with illustrations and an accompanying music album (Links inside): On the ...

... Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1960 Art Treatments & Subjects Human Figures Depicted in Art Erotic Art Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 ...

... Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1960 Art Treatments & Subjects Human Figures Depicted in Art Erotic Art Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 ...

... . Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the ...

... : Paperback Non-Fiction Books Arts & Entertainment Art Treatments & Subjects Human Figures Depicted in Art Erotic Art Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays Family & Health Relationships & Families ...

... hearken back to Shakespeare's sonnets, marking Hofmann's position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire." -Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition A Hundred Lovers is a catalog of ...

... hearken back to Shakespeare's sonnets, marking Hofmann's position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire." -Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition A Hundred Lovers is a catalog of ...

... -his poetry simply gives us eyes to see what is there. In particular, we see the full variety of erotic connections, from the "star-crossed" devotions of Romeo and Juliet to the failed romance of Troilus and Cressida to ...

... representation of many male and female characters who evade the erotic, subordinate the erotic to power seeking, or regard their own or others' erotic attachments with revulsion. Author: B. J. Sokol. Format: Paperback ...

... archival research into the life and letters of Lady Melbourne, whose correspondence with Byron shaped his erotic imagination and influenced his engagement with the biblical story of Joseph. Gross places Byron's politics ...

... archival research into the life and letters of Lady Melbourne, whose correspondence with Byron shaped his erotic imagination and influenced his engagement with the biblical story of Joseph. Gross places Byron's politics ...

... distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form of refinement was applied to the matter of sex. Erotic culture was male-centred and it was in this environment, Harvey argues, that men could enjoy both the bawdy ...

... at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In reality, it's hard to want what you already have. Our quest for secure love conflicts ...

... 's poetry and prose explores the many different facets of love and relationships. His whimsical and sometimes erotic writing quickly went viral and continues to attract a growing cult following of readers from around the ...

... 's poetry and prose explores the many different facets of love and relationships. His whimsical and sometimes erotic writing quickly went viral and continues to attract a growing cult following of readers from around the ...

... to view, but the eroticization exists primarily on the part of the viewer. Arguing that Balthus's figures are erotic only if we make them so, and that their innocence is more present than anything pornographic in them ...

... about the wounds of love.   The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín , an “erotic allelujia” which Lorca once called his most cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors who ...

... life, a formidable and uncompromising poetic intelligence can be seen at play. Alongside the erotic, satirical offerings from Decapitated Poetry , this volume includes selections from Chen's remarkable sci-fi sequences ...

... library and presents for the first time a study of the relationship between Borges's sexual biography, his erotic readings, and the writing of desire and sex in his work. The author explores relevant literary questions ...

... over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a mark?' Irina takes erotic photos of average-looking men. Always behind the lens, she watches, she moulds, and she stalks. These boys are putty ...

... . What is actually being described, is, beneath everything, a remarkable description of a highly charged erotic encounter. The poem is the clearest expression of Tsvetaeva's understanding of love and its possibilities ...

... building in the romantic narratives of South America. These narratives are generally characterized by underlying erotic discourses meant to set the recently liberated countries of Latin America on a path toward class ...

... and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in ...

... the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal ...

... writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power. Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes ...

... the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal ...

... five plays from the English Renaissance that explore political questions and developments by telling stories about the erotic impulses of a ruler. The volume contains fully annotated and modernized versions of Marlowe's ...

... fuels the narrative's lust. A psychological and grotesque character drama that doubles as an erotic thriller about erotic obsession, mourning, a sense of inadequacy, and the search for surrogates of affection, Milky Way ...

... which never jar, but enhance the timelessness and force of the emotion. A stunning poetic, theological and erotic achievement, and a collection I know I will return to again and again - for inspiration, permission and ...

... the dictates of conservative politics or the radical agenda of a marginalized interest, the essays reveal the erotic overflow—the flood—that cannot be contained within any one gender identity. In examining how ...

... periods; and, finally, through the modern and postmodern periods. Sturges demonstrates that various forms of erotic deviance have been differently valued in these different periods and cultures, and that dialogue has ...

... theories of poetry as an I-Thou relation, Auden viewed poetry as a fictional but primal erotic encounter with the reader. Author: Richard Bozorth. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Language & Linguistics Reference ...

... s death has seen new interests in the erotic sweeping through our culture, acting in uneasy ... Beckett has startling further light to throw on the erotic phenomenon variously but insistently recognised in our time. This ...

... range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some ... spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary ...

... of Westerns well before the word "homosexual" and its synonyms were invented. American writers celebrated erotic frontier friendships as alternatives to the lawless violence that characterized stories about the early ...

... of female experience in Japan, revealing voices every bit as rich and colorful, and perhaps even more lyrical and erotic, than those found in male haiku. Listen, for instance, to Chiyojo, who worked in what has been long ...

... Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature" allows a glimpse of a world with a sexual culture and erotic values very different from our own, through exploration of the earliest preserved written evidence on the subject ...

... eroticism. Each poem is vivid in its descriptive. If poetry is the tie that binds, this collection of erotic poetry will have your wrists bound. Each piece is sure to leave you breathless and wanting more. Enjoy. Author ...

... practitioners, to adult entertainment industry professionals—continue the conversation. Fifty Shades as Erotic Fiction Erotic romance writer Sylvia Day speaks to the new opportunities the Fifty Shades trilogy has ...

... , and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy ...

... , and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy ...

... presenting a relatively unknown body of writing, newly theorized and contextualized. It argues that in this period erotic poetry can only be considered in relation to the figure of the monarch, and that the formation of ...

... with acute psychological insight, this masterpiece of Gothic fiction is a powerful exploration of how violent and erotic impulses can break through the barriers of social and moral restraint. This edition is based on the ...

... at Paris Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in The ...

... of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery. In his introduction, David Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to ...

... unattainable hope. Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn ...

The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection  Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and ...

... powerful spiritual images and provocative content, which often described Rumi's love for God in romantic or erotic terms. His vast body of work includes more than three thousand lyrics and odes. This volume includes ...

An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play. When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and ...

... with the unrelenting forces of time, desire, and the natural world. The poems are witty and erotic in their wild energy, surprising, edgy and angular in their shifting perspectives, full of startling disjunctions and ...

... instantly recognizable structure and natural imagery, yet, as this new anthology shows, the verseform can also be erotic, funny, satirical, crude and mischievous. Ranging from the refined to the ribald, the comic to the ...

... poets working in English. Hacker brings together material from eight books, including a generous excerpt from the erotic verse novel Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons, and new work written in a vertiginously ...

... filled with 'drunks, actors, gamblers ... love and alcohol and clothes on the floor.' Here begin the erotic affairs and dinner parties, the abortions and heartbreaks, the friendships and 'people I have buried'. Here are ...

... treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fantastic tales of metamorphosis, including the erotic Italian tales of Circe Glaucus, and Scylla, and Picus, and Canens. Other Roman myths include Pomona ...

... residency in the Amazon rainforest, Galleymore strays into a world of squirrels cloaked in snakeskins, the engagingly erotic lives of barnacles, and caged owls that behave like their owners. The human world revises its ...

... of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never ...

... friend's story is everywhere.' It contains wonders, 'Carnaby cockatoos feeding on wild radish in low grass', the erotic nature of a Blue Butcher Orchid 'made flesh', a poet gardener who is aware of 'the unseen deadline ...

... treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fantastic tales of metamorphosis, including the erotic Italian tales of Circe Glaucus, and Scylla, and Picus, and Canens. Other Roman myths include Pomona ...

... heart-felt emotion, anthropological cataloguing, description and explanation. By turns visionary, philosophical, experimental and erotic, Mannix's writing, in all its varied manifestions is any unconscious worlds. He is ...

... the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love. Neruda: The Poet’s Calling is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer ...

... the birth of her daughter; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple ; winning the ...

... 't Burn is a dark recasting of the delicate reunification of East and West as a chronicle of erotic desire and an extraordinary rediscovery of emotion and place. About the Author Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary ...

... health and abuse and, throughout, the role of memory in enabling healing. The poems are at once erotic and deeply thought through, intelligent and tender. About the Author Bron Bateman is a poet, academic and mother ...

... threat of world war looms over the city of Alexandria, an exiled Anglo-Irish schoolteacher unravels his erotic obsession with two women: Melissa, a fragile dancer, and Justine, a glamorous married Egyptian woman. Through ...