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Twentieth Century Pleasures
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Author : Robert Hass
language : en
Publisher: New York : Ecco Press
Release Date : 1984
Twentieth Century Pleasures written by Robert Hass and has been published by New York : Ecco Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.
20th Century Pleasures
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Author : Hass
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2000-01-12
20th Century Pleasures written by Hass and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-12 with History categories.
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.
Dangerous Pleasures
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Author : Gail Hershatter
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Dangerous Pleasures written by Gail Hershatter and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with History categories.
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appreciate, castigate, count, regulate, cure, pathologize, warn about, rescue, eliminate, or deploy them as a symbol in a larger social panorama. Over the past century, prostitution has been understood in many ways: as a source of urbanized pleasures, a profession full of unscrupulous and greedy schemers, a changing site of work for women, a source of moral danger and physical disease, a marker of national decay, and a sign of modernity. For the Communist leadership of the 1950s, the elimination of prostitution symbolized China's emergence as a strong, healthy, and modern nation. In the past decade, as prostitution once again has become a recognized feature of Chinese society, it has been incorporated into a larger public discussion about what kind of modernity China should seek and what kind of sex and gender arrangements should characterize that modernity. Prostitutes, like every other non-elite group, did not record their own lives. How can sources generated by intense public argument about the "larger" meanings of prostitution be read for clues to those lives? Hershatter makes use of a broad range of materials: guidebooks to the pleasure quarters, collections of anecdotes about high-class courtesans, tabloid gossip columns, municipal regulations prohibiting street soliciting, police interrogations of streetwalkers and those accused of trafficking in women, newspaper reports on court cases involving both courtesans and streetwalkers, polemics by Chinese and foreign reformers, learned articles by Chinese scholars commenting on the world history of prostitution and analyzing its local causes, surveys by doctors and social workers on sexually transmitted disease in various Shanghai populations, relief agency records, fictionalized accounts of the scams and sufferings of prostitutes, memoirs by former courtesan house patrons, and interviews with former officials and reformers. Although a courtesan may never set pen to paper, we can infer a great deal about her strategizing and working of the system through the vast cautionary literature that tells her customers how not to be defrauded by her. Newspaper accounts of the arrests and brief court testimonies of Shanghai streetwalkers let us glimpse the way that prostitutes positioned themselves to get the most they could from the legal system. Without recourse to direct speech, Hershatter argues, these women have nevertheless left an audible trace. Central to this study is the investigation of how things are known and later remembered, and how, later still, they are simultaneously apprehended and reinvented by the historian.
Aesthetic Pleasure In Twentieth Century Women S Food Writing
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Author : Alice McLean
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Aesthetic Pleasure In Twentieth Century Women S Food Writing written by Alice McLean and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify the guidelines of middle class domesticity, Fisher, Toklas, and David claimed the pleasures of gastronomy previously reserved for men. Articulating a language through which female desire is artfully and publicly sated, Fisher, Toklas, and David expanded women’s food writing beyond the domestic realm by pioneering forms of self-expression that celebrate female appetite for pleasure and for culinary adventure. In so doing, they illuminate the power of genre-bending food writing to transgress and reconfigure conventional gender ideologies. For these women, food encouraged a sensory engagement with their environment and a physical receptivity toward pleasure that engendered their creative aesthetic.
Twentieth Century Pleasures
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Author : Robert Hass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Twentieth Century Pleasures written by Robert Hass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
Pure Pleasure
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2000
Pure Pleasure written by John Carey and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of Britain's most respected literary critics introduces what he believes are the fifty most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and masterpieces, and offers criticism, biography, and cultural context for each selection.
Unexpected Pleasures
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Author : Lauryl Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-15
Unexpected Pleasures written by Lauryl Tucker and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What are the sources—and the effects—of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody? In this book, Lauryl Tucker explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction. Teasing out the parodic sensibility of writers including Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Dorothy Sayers, Stella Gibbons, and Zadie Smith, Unexpected Pleasures offers an innovative reading of works that seem to excessively obey the rules of genre. By oversupplying the pleasurable sense of knowledge and the illusion of predictive power that genre confers, these works play with readerly expectation in order to expose and queer a broader set of assumptions about desire, resolution, and futurity. Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as an interpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of writers together, it reveals new throughlines between middlebrow and highbrow, and among modernist, mid-century, and contemporary literature. This book will interest scholars of modernist and contemporary British literature, as well as readers interested in narrative and queer theory.
Reel Pleasures
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Author : Laura Fair
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Reel Pleasures written by Laura Fair and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Social Science categories.
Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media—from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films—to speak to local dreams and desires. In it, Laura Fair zeroes in on Tanzanians’ extraordinarily dynamic media cultures to demonstrate how the public and private worlds of film reception brought communities together and contributed to the construction of genders, generations, and urban citizenship over time. Radically reframing the literatures on media exhibition, distribution, and reception, Reel Pleasures demonstrates how local entrepreneurs and fans worked together to forge the most successful cinema industry in colonial sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a major contribution to the literature on transnational commodity cultures.
Pleasures Of Collecting Twentieth Century And Contemporary Art
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Author : Jennifer Ambrose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Pleasures Of Collecting Twentieth Century And Contemporary Art written by Jennifer Ambrose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Museum catalogue of 20th century and contemporary art by various artists. Published in conjuction with the exhibition "Pleasures of collecting: Part II, twentieth century and contemporary art" at the bruce museum of arts and science in greenwich, CT January 18, 2003 through April 13, 2003.