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Obscene Pedagogies

Author : Carissa M. Harris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501730428
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Pedagogies written by Carissa M. Harris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.

At the Limit of the Obscene

Author : Erica Weitzman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810143186
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book At the Limit of the Obscene written by Erica Weitzman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As German-language literature turned in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, a corresponding anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction—with consequences not only for realist poetics but also for the conception of the material world itself. At the Limit of the Obscene examines the roots and repercussions of this anxiety in German realist and postrealist literature. Through analyses of works by Adalbert Stifter, Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, Arno Holz, Gottfried Benn, and Franz Kafka, Erica Weitzman shows how German realism’s conflicted representations of the material world lead to an idea of the obscene as an excess of sensual appearance beyond human meaning: the obverse of the anthropocentric worldview that German realism both propagates and pushes to its crisis. At the Limit of the Obscene thus brings to light the troubled and troubling ontology underlying German realism, at the same time demonstrating how its works continue to shape our ideas about representability, alterity, and the relationship of human beings to the non-human well into the present day.

Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages

Author : Michiel de Vaan
Publisher : LEIDEN · BOSTON, 2008
ISBN 13 : 9004167978
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages written by Michiel de Vaan and published by LEIDEN · BOSTON, 2008. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary forms part of the project Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, which was initiated by Robert Beekes and Alexander Lubotsky in 1991. The aim of the project is to compile a new and comprehensive etymological dictionary of the inherited vocabulary attested in the Indo-European languages, replacing the now outdated dictionary of Pokorny (1959).

Reading the Obscene

Author : Jordan Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150362949X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Obscene written by Jordan Carroll and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Reading the Obscene, Jordan Carroll reveals new insights about the editors who fought the most famous anti-censorship battles of the twentieth century. While many critics have interpreted obscenity as a form of populist protest, Reading the Obscene shows that the editors who worked to dismantle censorship often catered to elite audiences composed primarily of white men in the professional-managerial class. As Carroll argues, transgressive editors, such as H. L. Mencken at the Smart Set and the American Mercury, William Gaines and Al Feldstein at EC Comics, Hugh Hefner at Playboy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, and Barney Rosset at Grove Press, taught their readers to approach even the most scandalizing texts with the same cold calculation and professional reserve they employed in their occupations. Along the way, these editors kicked off a middle-class sexual revolution in which white-collar professionals imagined they could control sexuality through management science. Obscenity is often presented as self-shattering and subversive, but with this provocative work Carroll calls into question some of the most sensational claims about obscenity, suggesting that when transgression becomes a sign of class distinction, we must abandon the idea that obscenity always overturns hierarchies and disrupts social order. Winner of the 2022 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, sponsored by the Modern Language Association

The Oriental Obscene

Author : Sylvia Shin Huey Chong
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348543
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Oriental Obscene written by Sylvia Shin Huey Chong and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of media representations of violence during the Vietnam War on people in the U.S., specifically how images of violence done to and by the Vietnamese were traumatic in ways that deeply affected the American psyche.

Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive

Author : Stephen Tropiano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0879104546
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive written by Stephen Tropiano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.

Obscene Gestures

Author : Patrick Lawrence
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 1531500102
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Gestures written by Patrick Lawrence and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.

Obscene Interiors

Author : Justin Jorgensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972938808
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Interiors written by Justin Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongue-in-cheek critiques of the kitschy, dated, and shockingly bad amateurinterior design found in online boudoir and personal ad photographs--withthe bodies shaded out. Peruse a random selection of these photographs with aprofessional designer, for a lively critique of these truly "ObsceneInteriors." Renowned designer and photographer Todd Oldham rolls out thewelcome mat with an intriguing foreword.

Smut

Author : Murray S. Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616246X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Smut written by Murray S. Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study of sexuality and society offers a provocative reframing of the subject—including what the author calls a periodic table of perversions. In Smut, Murray S. Davis investigates sex in a way that differs from nearly all previous books on the subject. Discarding the simplistic theory of sex as a natural instinct, he sets out to develop new explanations for its universal appeal. Drawing on a wide variety of literary forms, including the work of novelists, poets, and even comedians—and exploring everything from theology to pornography—Davis recaptures sex for the social sciences. First, Davis examines the difference between sexual arousal and ordinary experience, arguing that arousal alters a person's experience of the world. Positing an erotic reality distinct from everyday life, he demonstrates how different perceptions of time, space, human bodies, and other social types occur in each realm. Davis then asks why some people find this alternation between realities dirty, and offers a periodic table of perversions that summarizes the social elements out of which those who find sex dirty construct their world. Finally, Davis considers other conceptual grids affected by the alternation between everyday and erotic realities: the pornographic, which portrays individual, social relations, and social organizations being disrupted by sex; and the naturalistic, which conceives of them in a way that cannot be disrupted by sex. Throughout history these ideologies have battled for control over Western society, and, in his conclusion, Davis offers a prognosis for the future of sex based on these historical ideological cycles.

Obscene Profits

Author : Frederick S. Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135115702
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Profits written by Frederick S. Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.

The Obscene Madame D

Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 180533137X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Obscene Madame D written by Hilda Hilst and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2025-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits. Every month I ingested the body of God, not in the way one swallows green peas or agrostis, or swallows swords, I ingested the body of God the way people do when they know they are swallowing the More, the All, the Incommensurable, for not believing in finitude I would lose myself in absolute infinity… The Obscene Madame D tells the story of Hillé, a sixty-year-old woman who has decided to abandon conventional life and spend the rest of her days in contemplation in a recess under the stairs. There, she is haunted by the perplexity of her recently deceased lover, Ehud, who cannot understand her rejection of common sense, sex and a simple life in favour of metaphysical speculations that he considers delusional and vain. In a stream-of-consciousness monologue that’s part James Joyce, part Clarice Lispector, and part de Sade, Hillé speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction, as she searches for answers to great questions of life, death and the relationship between body and soul.

What is Obscenity?

Author : Rokudenashiko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927668313
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book What is Obscenity? written by Rokudenashiko and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rokudenashiko's mission is to demystify female genitalia, a mission that has led to a vulva-shaped kayak and her arrest.

Obscene Gestures for Women

Author : Janet Kauffman
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Gestures for Women written by Janet Kauffman and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important rural women writers, Janet Kauffman, presents this collection of fifteen stories of a world that is succumbing to the ceaseless erosion of what is tender, innocent, natural, and true.

The Reinvention of Obscenity

Author : Joan DeJean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226141411
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Reinvention of Obscenity written by Joan DeJean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented—that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliére, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'école des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life dissected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.

Obscenity in the Mails, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postal Operations ... on H.R. 10867

Author : United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Obscenity in the Mails, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postal Operations ... on H.R. 10867 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

Author : United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography written by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Obscenity in the Mails

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obscenity in the Mails written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: