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Reading The Obscene
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Author : Jordan Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-23
Reading The Obscene written by Jordan Carroll and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
Fever Reading
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Author : Michael Millner
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2012-06-12
Fever Reading written by Michael Millner and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
An intricate account of how the early U.S. public sphere was shaped by debates over "good" and "bad" forms of reading, including pornographic reading, scandal reading, and religious reading
Obscene Things
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Author : Naifei Ding
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-18
Obscene Things written by Naifei Ding and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a 'porous intimacy' with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist 'counter-ethics' of reading, "Obscene Things" is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of "Jin Ping Mei" will inspire anyone concerned with the "how" of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power."--Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University
The Obscene Madame D
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Author : Hilda Hilst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Obscene Madame D written by Hilda Hilst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
The English-language debut of one of Brazil's leading writers of the twentieth century
A Matter Of Obscenity
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Author : Christopher Hilliard
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-26
A Matter Of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
The Novel And The Obscene
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Author : Florence Dore
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Novel And The Obscene written by Florence Dore and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.
Lawn Boy
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Author : Jonathan Evison
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Lawn Boy written by Jonathan Evison and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Fiction categories.
Recipient of the 2019 Alex Award “Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time through the minefield that is working-class America.” --The New York Times Book Review For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew--he’s smart enough to know that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? He’s not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what’s next for Mike Muñoz? In this funny, biting, touching, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man determined to achieve the American dream of happiness and prosperity--who just so happens to find himself along the way.
Obscene Pedagogies
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Author : Carissa M. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-15
Obscene Pedagogies written by Carissa M. Harris and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity’s usefulness in sexual education. She 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. She focuses in particular on understudied female-voiced lyrics and gendered debate poems, many of which have their origin in oral culture, and includes teaching-ready editions of fourteen largely unknown anonymous lyrics in women’s voices. 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.
The Journal Of The Assembly During The Session Of The Legislature Of The State Of California
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Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Journal Of The Assembly During The Session Of The Legislature Of The State Of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with California categories.
Obscene Matter Sent Through The Mail
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Obscene Matter Sent Through The Mail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Literature, Immoral categories.