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Book Synopsis FOR BLACKMAIL...OR PLEASURE by : Aiko Natsume
Download or read book FOR BLACKMAIL...OR PLEASURE written by Aiko Natsume and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to be cherished more than anyone else. That was all I wished for… Clinical psychologist Donna is shocked when Tate approaches her at a party seeking her counsel for someone in his life. Tate—the CEO of a broadcasting station and the man she once devoted her whole life to. But Donna ultimately couldn’t stand the fact that he always put his younger brother first, so she told him goodbye… Now she finds herself pulled from the party and on a private helicopter, where Tate reveals that he wants her to heal his heart. Wait a minute! By “someone,” does Tate mean himself?
Book Synopsis The Trouble with Pleasure by : Aaron Schuster
Download or read book The Trouble with Pleasure written by Aaron Schuster and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan. Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought. Though the encounter with psychoanalysis deeply marked Deleuze's work, we are yet to have a critical account of the very different postures he adopted toward psychoanalysis, and especially Lacanian theory, throughout his career. In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them. Schuster focuses on drive and desire—the strange, convoluted relationship of human beings to the forces that move them from within—“the trouble with pleasure." Along the way, Schuster offers his own engaging and surprising conceptual analyses and inventive examples. In the “Critique of Pure Complaint” he provides a philosophy of complaining, ranging from Freud's theory of neurosis to Spinoza's intellectual complaint of God and the Deleuzian great complaint. Schuster goes on to elaborate, among other things, a theory of love as “mutually compatible symptoms”; an original philosophical history of pleasure, including a hypothetical Heideggerian treatise and a Platonic theory of true pleasure; and an exploration of the 1920s “literature of the death drive,” including Thomas Mann, Italo Svevo, and Blaise Cendrars.
Book Synopsis Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare by : James M. Bromley
Download or read book Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare written by James M. Bromley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and temporality. An important contribution to Renaissance literary studies, queer theory and the history of sexuality, the book demonstrates the relevance of Renaissance literature to today. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 'problem comedies', Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, Thomas Middleton's The Nice Valour and Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and her prose romance The Urania, Bromley re-evaluates notions of the centrality of deep, abiding affection in Renaissance culture and challenges our own investment in a narrowly defined intimate sphere.
Book Synopsis Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure by : Susie Jolly
Download or read book Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure written by Susie Jolly and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing these negative aspects has dovetailed with conservative ideologies that associate women’s sexualities with danger and fear. On the other hand, the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and pornography more broadly celebrate the pleasures of sex in ways that can be just as oppressive, often implying that only certain types of people - young, heterosexual, able-bodied, HIV-negative - are eligible for sexual pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure brings together challenges to these strictures and exclusions from both the South and North of the globe, with examples of activism, advocacy and programming which use pleasure as an entry point. It shows how positive approaches to pleasure and sexuality can enhance equality and empowerment for all.
Book Synopsis Captive for the Sheikh's Pleasure by : Carol Marinelli
Download or read book Captive for the Sheikh's Pleasure written by Carol Marinelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His sinful desert seduction… Sheikh Ilyas al-Razim was born to be king. He won’t let anything stand in his way, especially not the waitress daring to think she can blackmail him! It’s his duty to protect his family’s honor—even if it means taking impossibly stunning Maggie Delaney as his hostage… Beneath the starlit skies of Zayrinia’s desert, defiant Maggie convinces Ilyas she is innocent of his accusations. No longer his prisoner, Maggie is free to return home…yet now she’s held captive by their smoldering raw desire! Dare she surrender to the pleasure this desert prince promises?
Book Synopsis Lacan and Deleuze by : Bostjan Nedoh
Download or read book Lacan and Deleuze written by Bostjan Nedoh and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart. This volume of 12 new essays breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis', which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading.
Book Synopsis Tennessee Williams by : Robert Gross
Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Robert Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.
Download or read book Siege written by Peter Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Lesson in Blackmail by : Kayla Robichaux
Download or read book A Lesson in Blackmail written by Kayla Robichaux and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've made it my life's mission to make the school librarian squirm. This school is mine-literally, my family built Black Mountain Academy generations ago-and I own everything in it. And I, Nathaniel Black IV, won't stop until that includes her. She just started this year, my senior year, her first job right out of college. She calls it her dream job, but I've had the sick pleasure of making my study period with her every day more a nightmare. I'm fixated on her, obsessed with her, and all I want is to feel the skittish little mouse beneath me.I can't get her out of my head, not even while partying at my friend's house, every girl vying for my attention. But they don't stand a chance, not when my focus is on Ms. Evelyn Richards. She makes me feel... things I don't understand. Possessive yet... protective. I can f- with her, but no one else can. Compulsion strikes, the other half of my disorder, and that night I set out to find where she lives. And what I discover changes both our lives.The perfect information for blackmail. The perfect secret to hold over her head to get what I want.Her.A Lesson in Blackmail is a full-length novel in the Black Mountain Academy series. It is a crossover standalone with KD Robichaux's Club Alias series.
Download or read book Secret Pleasure written by Lora Leigh and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret is out: #1 bestselling author Lora Leigh’s Bound Hearts series is so hot, it should come with a warning... Sebastian and Shane De Loren were born to love Alyssa Hampstead. No other woman on earth can burn for them, ignite with passion between them, the way Alyssa does. But after three sensual months of pleasure come to a crashing halt, Sebastian and Shane are left fighting with everything they’ve got, risking it all to have Alyssa one more time... Alyssa has closed off her heart. A senator’s daughter in the political spotlight, she’d rather be quiet and safe than feel the emotional intensity Sebastian and Shane roused within her years ago. But when the sexy cousins blaze their way back into her life, Alyssa cannot help but succumb to the heady pleasures the two men can give her. And as an unknown enemy draws near, Alyssa will need Sebastian and Shane to protect her...and satisfy every forbidden craving.
Book Synopsis Bought for Revenge, Bedded for Pleasure by : Emma Darcy
Download or read book Bought for Revenge, Bedded for Pleasure written by Emma Darcy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today–Bestselling Author: A bargain of passionate desire threatens to consume two lost souls. Jack Maguire was turned away from his father’s house and has never forgotten that day—or how much he wanted his stepsister, Sally. Now a billionaire tycoon, by a twist of fate Jack’s inherited his father’s property—and has an opportunity to get revenge. Jack has a bargain to make with Sally, who has grown into a beautiful, desirable woman. She can keep her beloved house—if she will be his mistress on weekends.
Book Synopsis The Women Who Knew Too Much by : Tania Modleski
Download or read book The Women Who Knew Too Much written by Tania Modleski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine the mastery of the cinematic "master of suspense." The third edition features an interview with the author by David Greven, in which he and Modleski reflect on how feminist and queer approaches to Hitchcock studies may be brought into dialogue. A teaching guide and discussion questions by Ned Schantz help instructors and students to delve into this seminal work of feminist film theory.
Book Synopsis Murder in Dunton Heights by : Dee Morrison Grabitz
Download or read book Murder in Dunton Heights written by Dee Morrison Grabitz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunton Heights was a suburb of comfort and security. The biggest event was the Junior League Dinner Dance, until murder struck dissolving all their smug beliefs. David and Mary Fran were not Dunton Heights' most ideal couple, but when David, a junior high school principal, is found dead, and Mary Fran, a high school swimming coach, becomes the prime suspect, the community began to squirm. Two days later the body of Mary Fran is found murdered at the Dunton Inn. When a diary is found in Mary Fran's faculty locker, naming names and amounts, the town's Brahmans form a close-knit group and close ranks. Chief Joe Brighton and Dr. Clayton Rule delve into the killings. They turn up secrets and powerful motives for murder and revenge that had best been undiscovered. Chief Brighton must balance the attentions of the beautiful Joan Hadley and his strong desire for her, and Clay must come to grips with his wife's serious depression and demands for a divorce. Together they must deal with the treacherous search for the culprit. The clues are elusive and suspicions fall on many before the murderer is unmasked.
Book Synopsis Pleasure: An Adult Romance - Complete Series by : Lucia Jordan
Download or read book Pleasure: An Adult Romance - Complete Series written by Lucia Jordan and published by Wild Hearts Romance. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levi wants to show Kelly the benefits of letting go and surrendering to a moment fueled by passion and desire. The question is, will Kelly have the strength to let go? Kelly Sharp has no time for love. In her life, everything must be under control, and there’s no place for messy emotions or out-of-control passion. It’s Kelly’s severe attitude that is the key to her success—the young CEO of her family business, and a woman to be reckoned with. But when she meets Levi, the sexy fireman who saves her from an office fire, Kelly’s life is turned upside down. Levi is determined to make her lose control, but Kelly is determined to hold onto it. Will collected Kelly maintain composure or will she submit to a whole new world with Levi?
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of God by : John Piper
Download or read book The Pleasures of God written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
Download or read book Framed written by Orit Kamir and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to condemn these women or exonerate them? What is it, exactly, that they teach us to find such women guilty or innocent of, and how do they do so? Through innovative readings of a dozen movies made between 1928 and 2001 in Europe, Japan, and the United States, Orit Kamir shows that in representing “gender crimes,” feature films have constructed a cinematic jurisprudence, training audiences worldwide in patterns of judgment of women (and men) in such situations. Offering a novel formulation of the emerging field of law and film, Kamir combines basic legal concepts—murder, rape, provocation, insanity, and self-defense—with narratology, social science methodologies, and film studies. Framed not only offers a unique study of law and film but also points toward new directions in feminist thought. Shedding light on central feminist themes such as victimization and agency, multiculturalism, and postmodernism, Kamir outlines a feminist cinematic legal critique, a perspective from which to evaluate the “cinematic legalism” that indoctrinates and disciplines audiences around the world. Bringing an original perspective to feminist analysis, she demonstrates that the distinction between honor and dignity has crucial implications for how societies construct women, their social status, and their legal rights. In Framed, she outlines a dignity-oriented, honor-sensitive feminist approach to law and film.
Book Synopsis Sentimental Education in Chinese History by : Paolo Santangelo
Download or read book Sentimental Education in Chinese History written by Paolo Santangelo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited first book-form result of the author’s pioneering interdisciplinary research on a key problem for understanding Chinese texts, and, therewith, China: its ways of expression of emotions and states of mind. Relying on his immense database on (mostly) Ming and Qing sources, the author here presents the first truly solid, source-based survey on the subject. After analysing the methodological problems involved, the volume focuses on contradictions between official values on the one hand, and practical compromises between individual appetitive energies and personal tendencies for wealth and gratification of desires on the other hand. It analyses the negotiating process between the rigid ethical codes and dynamic social changes, as well as how social control influences the cognitive elements of emotions, both in restraining personal passions and promoting the "virtuous sentiments".
