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Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality by White Chris
epub |eng | | Author:White, Chris

XIX Sexual inversion among Greek women offers more difficulties than we met with in the study of paiderastia. This is due, not to the absence of the phenomenon, but to ...
( Category: Literary Criticism June 28,2020 )
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

11 He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that Yonville, in ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 28,2020 )
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by Hennefeld Maggie;
epub |eng | 2018-02-07 | Author:Hennefeld, Maggie;

Frothing(ham) at the Mouth Beyond LADY IN THE BATHS’ reductive attribution of laughter to the film’s surface mockery, the most vocal anti-suffragette leaders often made absurd claims to silence and ...
( Category: Feminist Theory June 27,2020 )
A Theory of Narrative by Altman Rick;
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Altman, Rick;

For Bernard, the problem lies not with overtly secular arts and texts, but with beautiful objects that pander to human curiosity in the name of the church. A similar problem ...
( Category: Documentaries June 27,2020 )
Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Mia Mercado

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
Conversion Disorder by Webster Jamieson;
epub |eng | | Author:Webster, Jamieson;

VII COITUS INTERRUPTUS Hence the necessity of converting reflexive language. It must be directed not toward any inner confirmation—not toward a kind of central, unshakable certitude—but toward an outer bound ...
( Category: Feminist June 27,2020 )
Writing Wild by Kathryn Aalto
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Kathryn Aalto

Lauret Savoy Trace NOUN. A way or path. A course of action. Footprint or track. Vestige of a former presence. An impression. Minute amount. A life mark. VERB. To make ...
( Category: Women Authors June 23,2020 )
Au Revoir, Tristesse by Viv Groskop
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. True happiness may involve quite a lot of hypocrisy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Or: Beware people who dump you by leaving a note in a basket of apricots) ...
( Category: Humor June 23,2020 )
A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings
epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Lennie Goodings [Goodings, Lennie]

Chapter Nine Beyond Borders We had a little run-in with boundaries in the late 1980s. We received a manuscript from an agent who told us she was representing a British ...
( Category: European June 21,2020 )
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Raine [Raine Kathleen]

This beautiful passage, with that concrete visual quality to which Blake always responded when reading any abstract work, gave him at once the philosophy and the images of the poem. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 21,2020 )
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

The Relentless Desire of Bob Mizer In November 1951, three months after Charles Beach burned J. C. Leyendecker’s private papers after his funeral, a young gay photographer and fitness enthusiast ...
( Category: LGBT June 18,2020 )
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:W. H. Auden

The idea of such an action, a pure assertion of self-autonomy, seemed to Augustine to be the central problem of ethics. One acts not on a motive of pleasure or ...
( Category: Poetry June 17,2020 )
Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian Gornick

The circle is composed of a group of self-styled intellectuals in their late twenties, early thirties, who, trapped by the Depression into occupational stasis, meet every Saturday evening in Laura’s ...
( Category: General Books & Reading June 15,2020 )
The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Honore de Balzac

14. A horrible and vulgar story OLD Fanchette was the only person in Issoudun who disliked the fact that Flore Brazier had become all-powerful in her master’s household. She protested ...
( Category: Victorian June 15,2020 )
Sovereign Fantasies by Ingham Patricia Clare;
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Ingham, Patricia Clare;

The Tragedy of Romance: Gender, Genre, and Agency If, as de Rougemont implies, Arthurian romance gives us a satisfying narrative of our powerlessness over our own passionate attachments, that powerlessness ...
( Category: Renaissance June 14,2020 )

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