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Empire Of Pleasures
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Author : Andrew Dalby
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Empire Of Pleasures written by Andrew Dalby and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Dinners and dining in literature categories.
An evocative survey of the sensory culture of the Roman Empire, showing how the Romans themselves depicted their food, wine and entertainments in literature and in art.
Empire Of Pleasures
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Author : Andre Dalby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Empire Of Pleasures written by Andre Dalby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Empire Of Pleasures Luxury And Indulgence In The Roman World
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Author : Andrew Dalby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Empire Of Pleasures Luxury And Indulgence In The Roman World written by Andrew Dalby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Roman Passions
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Author : Ray Laurence
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Roman Passions written by Ray Laurence and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with History categories.
Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. The ideal companion guide to the private and public pleasures of imperial Rome. Engagingly written with the general reader in mind, this book will also appeal to students of the Roman world.
Tastes Of Byzantium
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Author : Andrew Dalby
language : en
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Tastes Of Byzantium written by Andrew Dalby and has been published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
Describes the food and eating customs during the Byzantine Empire.
Futile Pleasures
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Author : Corey McEleney
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
Futile Pleasures written by Corey McEleney and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Social Science categories.
Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.
Beyond Pain
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Author : Thomas A. Breslin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-10-30
Beyond Pain written by Thomas A. Breslin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-30 with History categories.
Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strategy. The colleens of Ireland and the bibis of India showed how inexorably effective pleasure could be in confounding militarily stronger invaders. In contrast, resorting to violence and pain generally undermined aggressive states. Cultural factors have shaped the choice of pleasures used. Food-centered China has used food, as well as sex and tourism, as tools in its foreign relations. Rome used wine; Byzantium, precious metals, banquets, and public spectacles; Venice, sex, money, and art; England, money and education. America has used sex, money, education, music, and tourism. Breslin's provocative text is based on a wide reading of secondary sources and some primary sources as well as a quarter century of teaching the history of foreign relations.
Pleasures Of The Past
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Author : Alexis Alexandra
language : en
Publisher: Crimson Rose Erotica
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Pleasures Of The Past written by Alexis Alexandra and has been published by Crimson Rose Erotica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
On December 31, 3165 Doctor Amie Hargrove presses the button on the first ever time machine - a product of her own invention unknown to the rest of the world and untested by her. Landing 338,000 years in the past with the intentions of observing primitive man, she is quickly taken in by them and her journey into sexual bliss begins.
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures
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Author : Clarice Lispector
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-04-06
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Fiction categories.
'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian 'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Tóibín 'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned' Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, 'I humanized myself', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved. Translated by Stefan Tobler Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti
The City S Pleasures
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Author : Shirine Hamadeh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The City S Pleasures written by Shirine Hamadeh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
The City's Pleasures is the first historical investigation of the tremendous changes that affected the fabric and architecture of Istanbul in the century that followed the decisive return of the Ottoman court to the capital in 1703. These were spectacular times that witnessed the most extraordinary urban expansion and building explosion in the history of the city. Showing how architecture and urban form became involved in the representation and construction of a changing social order, Shirine Hamadeh reassesses the dominance of the paradigm of Westernization in interpretations of this period and challenges the suggestion that change in the eighteenth century could only occur by turning toward a now superior West. Drawing on a genre of Ottoman poetry written in celebration of the built environment and on a vast array of related textual and visual sources, Hamadeh demonstrates that architectural change was the result of a dynamic synthesis between internal and external factors, and closely mirrored the process of décloisonnement of the city's social landscape. Examining novel forms, spaces, and decorative vocabularies; changing patterns of patronage; and new patterns of architectural perception; The City's Pleasures shows how these exposed and reinforced the internal dynamics that were played out between a society in flux and a state anxious to recreate an ideal system of social hierarchies. Profoundly hybrid in nature, the new architectural idiom reflected a growing permeability between elite and middle-class sensibilities, an unprecedented degree of receptivity to Western and Eastern foreign traditions, and a clear departure from the parameters of the classical canon. Innovation became the new operative doctrine. As the built environment was experienced, perceived, and appreciated by contemporary observers, it increasingly revealed itself as a perpetual source of sensory pleasures.