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Vulgar Genres

Author : Steven Ruszczycky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678875X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Vulgar Genres written by Steven Ruszczycky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium. Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, Vulgar Genres reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life.

Vulgar Genres

Author : Steven Ruszczycky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Vulgar Genres written by Steven Ruszczycky and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vulgar Genres" investigates the relevance of pornography for studies of literature and genre following the ostensible easing of U. S. obscenity laws after World War II. Drawing on Frances Ferguson's Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (2004), which explores pornography's relation to literature via a feminist rereading of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), I stage an interdisciplinary conversation among the fields of literary studies, critical theory, and porn studies. While feminist film scholars such as Linda Williams, Laura Kipnis, and others have produced field-defining accounts of image-based pornography, their disciplinary frameworks have led to the neglect of written forms. Through close readings of magazines, advertisements, newsletters, and novels uncovered during archival research at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, and the Leather Archives & Museum of Chicago, "Vulgar Genres" reveals that gay print pornography provided a critical grammar for discourses about sexuality and power during the second half of the twentieth century. This was a grammar made possible by a shift in the obscenity law's attention away from written forms toward visual images. Writers such as Samuel Delany, John Rechy, Samuel Steward, and Matthew Stadler were well aware of pornography's significance for communities of sexual dissidents and sought to engage with the genre's unique take on law, power, and fantasy within their own literary works. Finally, I suggest that when read in light of contemporary genre theory, these texts yield insights into the historical forces that shape genres as well as how genres mediate between psychic life and social forces.

Perversions

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135200289
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Perversions written by Mandy Merck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated.

The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813140838
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture written by Paul A. Cantor and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Analyzes how ideas about economics and political philosophy find their way into everything from Star Trek to Malcolm in the Middle.” —Wall Street Journal Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? In this groundbreaking work, Paul A. Cantor—whose previous book, Gilligan Unbound, was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times—explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other proponents of freedom, Cantor contrasts the classical liberal vision of America?particularly its emphasis on the virtues of spontaneous order?with the Marxist understanding of the “culture industry” and the Hobbesian model of absolute state control. The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture concludes with a discussion of the impact of 9/11 on film and television, and the new anxieties emerging in contemporary alien-invasion narratives: the fear of a global technocracy that seeks to destroy the nuclear family, religious faith, local government, and other traditional bulwarks against the absolute state.

Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads

Author : Sarah F. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154908
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads written by Sarah F. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.

Palimpsests

Author : Gärard Genette
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270299
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Palimpsests written by Gärard Genette and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible". Originally published in France in 1982, Gerard Genette's PALIMPSESTS examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts on the same document.

Against the Despotism of Fact

Author : T. J. Boynton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438481829
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Against the Despotism of Fact written by T. J. Boynton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold's The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.

Disputing the Deluge

Author : Darko Suvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501384783
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Disputing the Deluge written by Darko Suvin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List For over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to utopian studies, formalist and leftist critical theory, and his broader engagement with what he terms "political epistemology." Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin's work on scifi and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 24 of Suvin's most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O'Connell and a new preface by the author. Beginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy, the essays collected here--each a brilliant example of engaged thought--highlight the value of scifi for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin's interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11, the global war on terror, the 2008 economic collapse, and the rise of conservative populism, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene, the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin's essays all in one place, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness.

Telling Tales on Caesar

Author : Phaedrus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199240951
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Telling Tales on Caesar written by Phaedrus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameos showcase Tiberius in private and Augustus in court, with Pompey the Great on campaign and Phaedrus himself struggling against prejudice and persecution, and tales feature all sorts - a toadying slave, wicked servant, vain musician, effeminate soldier, sexy poet, and rogue quack. These forgotten tales tell short and clear Roman parables of power and powerlessness. Humorous and acute, they explain, and protest at, the Caesars, and they sit perfectly among Aesop's sadistic lions, murderous wolves, and apes in purple."--Jacket.

Ethical Consensus and the Truth of Laughter

Author : Hub Zwart
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789039004128
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consensus and the Truth of Laughter written by Hub Zwart and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We participate in moral debate, instead of taking established morality for granted, because of our discontent with the moral discourse already existing. We feel that something is distorted or concealed, that something remains to be said. One of the strategies to expose the deficiencies of established discourse is critical argument, but under certain specific historical circumstances, the apparent self-evidence of established moral discourse has gained such a dominance, has acquired such an ability to conceal its basic vulnerability, that its validity simply seems beyond contestation. Notwithstanding our discontent, we remain unable to challenge the established truth effectively. Then, all of a sudden, its vulnerability is revealed - and this is the experience of laughter. Moral criticism is preceded by laughter. In fact, all crucial transformations that emerged in the history of morality were accompanied by and made possible by laughter and moral criticism is basically and originally a comic genre. After drawing an outline of the present moral regime in chapter one, the moral significance of laughter is recovered with the help of four 'philosophers of laughter' in chapter two, namely Bakhtin, Nietzsche, Bataille and Foucault. Laughter allows reality to appear in a certain light, it contains a basic truth, it is a philosophical principle in its own right that cannot be reduced to or identified with the truth of science. In the subsequent chapters it is shown how three crucial moral transformations, occuring in the fourth century B.C., the sixteenth century A.D. and the nineteenth century A.D. evolved out of an experience of laughter, articulated by three outstanding protagonists of laughter presented in this book: Socrates, Luther and Ibsen. Finally, the significance of the experience of laughter in view of the present is discussed.

Fiction & Diction

Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801480867
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Fiction & Diction written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Litteraturens aspekter beskrevet ud fra forskellige indfaldsvinkler med udgangspunkt i bl. a. Roman Jakobson's definitioner

The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu's 'Distinction'

Author : Philippe Coulangeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918975
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu's 'Distinction' written by Philippe Coulangeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the genesis of Bourdieu's classical book Distinction and its international career in contemporary Social Sciences. It includes contributions from contemporary sociologists from diverse countries who question the theoretical legacy of this book in various fields and national contexts. Invited authors review and exemplify current controversies concerning the theses promoted in Distinction in the sociology of culture, lifestyles, social classes and stratification, with a specific attention dedicated to the emerging forms of cultural capital and the logics of distinction that occur in relation to material consumption or bodily practices. They also empirically illustrate the theoretical contribution of Distinction in relation with such notions as field or habitus, which fruitfulness is emphasized in relation with some methodological innovations of the book. In this respect, a special focus is put on the emerging stream of "distinction studies" and on the opportunities offered by the geometrical data analysis of social spaces.

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century III

Author : Fu Jin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038442X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century III written by Fu Jin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century display the developmental trajectories of Chinese theatre over those hundred years. This volume examines national policies developed for the culture industry and practice of Chinese theatre from 1949 to the period of "the Great Leap Forward". The author highlights the tension between the new nation’s principle of "letting one hundred flowers bloom" and the theatrical industry as a tool for ideological propaganda. He argues that the transition from war-time conditions to the new social structure of peace time was far from thorough and stable. Scholars and students in the history of the arts, especially the history of Chinese theatre, will find this book to be an essential guide.

A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I

Author : Fu Jin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000044181
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I written by Fu Jin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of "A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century" display the developmental trajectories of Chinese theatre over those hundred years. This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1900 to 1949, covering the prosperity of Peking Opera, the advent of play and colorful local dramas. The author shows that the modernization of Chinese theatre was subject to both internal factors and influences from the outside world, while modernity and localization are two contradictory but complementary dimensions in any interpretation of Chinese theatre in the 20th century. Scholars and students in the history of the arts, especially the history of Chinese theatre, will find this book to be an essential guide.

Literature and Power

Author : Zhu Guohua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000879453
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Power written by Zhu Guohua and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With references to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution, while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel's claim of "the end of art" to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms -- power, capital, habitus, field, etc. into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries, particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology, as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature, cultural studies, and those with specific interests in Chinese literature, literary and art theory.

Ranciere and Music

Author : Joao Pedro Cachopo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444024X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Ranciere and Music written by Joao Pedro Cachopo and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores Rancière's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music, and sets him in dialogue with key thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze.

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

Author : Jack Lowery
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 9781645036609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful written by Jack Lowery and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury--which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.