The Perverse Library
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The Perverse Library
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Author : Craig Douglas Dworkin
language : en
Publisher: Information as Material
Release Date : 2010
The Perverse Library written by Craig Douglas Dworkin and has been published by Information as Material this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art and literature categories.
The Perverse Library includes Professor Craig Dworkin's bibliography (2,427 titles), a supplementary bibliography of absent and imagined books, and an accompanying essay arguing libraries are in fact defined not by what they contain, but by what books they exclude or fail to include. The essay also investigates the histories of libraries, makes a theoretical argument about the relation of canons to architectural space, and explores the psychology of collecting – including the pathology of bibliomania: 'He had but one idea, one love, one passion: books. And this love, this passion burned within him, consuming his days, devouring his existence.' Although they present themselves as figures of rational organization, library catalogues and classification systems can only hope to distract from the aberrant chaos they cannot exorcise. Published to accompany the exhibition The Perverse Library at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, 4 September – 31 October 2010, curated by Simon Morris.
Cruising The Library
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Author : Melissa Adler
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-04-03
Cruising The Library written by Melissa Adler 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 2017-04-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.
Perversion
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Author : Robert J. Stoller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-30
Perversion written by Robert J. Stoller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with Psychology categories.
This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.
The Language Of Perversion And The Language Of Love
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Author : Sheldon Bach
language : en
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Release Date : 1999-01-28
The Language Of Perversion And The Language Of Love written by Sheldon Bach and has been published by Jason Aronson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-28 with Psychology categories.
From long before the Trojan War to the ethnic cleansings of our own century, people have often used their potential to treat other human beings as things. It is this treatment of another person as a thing rather than as a human being that the eminent psychoanalyst, Dr. Sheldon Bach, sees as a perversion of object relationships and that forms the background of this powerful book. Perversion is a lack of capacity for whole object love, and while this includes the sexual perversions it also includes certain character perversions, character disorders and psychotic conditions. Dr. Bach's clinical work has led him to conclude that sexual perversions are generally inconsistent with whole object love. Therapeutic experience suggests that the pathways to object love may be strewn with outgrown and discarded sexual perversions. But whether a sexual perversion per se exists or not, the issue of how it happens that one person can degrade another to the status of a thing is an issue of importance not only for the psychoanalysis of character but for our larger understanding of human nature as well. Perversions are attempts to simplistically resolve or defend against some of the central paradoxes of human existence. How is it possible for us to be born of someone's flesh yet be separate from them, or to live in one's own experience yet observe oneself from the outside? How are we able to deal with feelings of being both male and female, child and adult, or to negotiate between the worlds of internal and external stimulation? People with perversions have special difficulty in dealing with the ambiguity of human relationships. They have not developed the transitional psychic space that would allow them to contain paradox, making it difficult for them to recognize the reality and legitimacy of multiple points of view. Thus they tend to think in either/or dichotomies, to search for dominant/submissive relationships and to perceive the world from idiosyncratically subjective or coldly objective perspectives. In this
The Perverse Imagination
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Author : Irving H. Buchen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Perverse Imagination written by Irving H. Buchen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bundel essays gewijd aan de betekenis van sadisme, pornografie, homoseksualiteit en parafilieën voor de letteren. Bevat een aantal bijdr. over Sade, een artikel van Gore Vidal over pornografie, een beschouwing over het werk van John Rechy, en een essay van Kate Millett over Henry Miller, Norman Mailer en Jean Genet.
Perverse All Monstrous All Prodigious
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Author : Philip Pullman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07
Perverse All Monstrous All Prodigious written by Philip Pullman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with English categories.
Perverse All Monstrous All Prodigious Things
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Author : Philip Pullman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Perverse All Monstrous All Prodigious Things written by Philip Pullman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with English teachers categories.
Whither The Postmodern Library
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Author : William H. Wisner
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2000-05-01
Whither The Postmodern Library written by William H. Wisner and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Once upon a time, looking for a book in the library involved an ancient mechanism called the card catalog. Now, most card catalogs are gone forever and patrons gaze at computer screens. As electronic technology becomes more pervasive, or invasive, librarians and library users continue to be embroiled in the controversy over the function of a library and its staff. As "knowledge" loses ground to "information" and techware pre-empts book budgets, library collections are "purged" and reference librarians find their role diminished—except to put more paper in the printer (to serve the voracious wood-pulp appetite of the new paperless society). The essays in this book analyze the complex issues surrounding the postmodern library and its increasingly impersonal nature, as the librarian at its center is more and more frequently marginalized. The insights and observations, both practical and thoughtful are those of a practicing librarian. An annotated bibliography guides the reader to additional important articles and books that explore the future of the library and the role of technology.
The Imp Of The Perverse
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Author : Edgar Allen Poe
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-06-23
The Imp Of The Perverse written by Edgar Allen Poe and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-23 with categories.
The Imp of the Perverse Edgar Allan Poe A man stands on the edge of a cliff, knowing it will be suicide to jump off, yet he wonders what it would be like. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Perverse Gaze Of Sympathy
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Author : Laura Hinton
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-09-30
The Perverse Gaze Of Sympathy written by Laura Hinton and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-30 with Social Science categories.
Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference.