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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Marquis de Sade"”.
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An unblinking gaze: on the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade
… to the work of Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814). The project at hand is to evaluate the claim that Sade, in some sense, is a philosopher, and to assess what his philosophy amounts to. There are two aspects to this task. Firstly, I will consider the various …
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'Le theatre change et represente': Lecture critique des oeuvres dramatiques du Marquis de Sade
The aim of this dissertation is to re-situate the marquis de Sade's plays in the general context of the theatrical practices in Eighteenth Century France and to reconstitute the author's dramatic writing process through a study of intertextuality of each of his plays. The genetic approach used here …
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Simple pornographers? The Marquis de Sade and the evolution of the hard-core pornographic film narrative
In The Secret Museum: Pornography and Modern Culture, Walter Kendrick demonstrates that whilst the term pornography remains a battleground of ideas and representations, its origins are to be found long before the word itself was invented in the nineteenth-century. At the beginning of the …
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Perilous Pedagogies: Women's Education and Epistolarity from Rousseau to Charrière
… late eighteenth-century French epistolary novels deal with the issue of women's education and the possibility of its reform. The debate of the latter half of the century is firmly centered on Rousseau, who wrote both a best-selling epistolary novel dealing with the position of women in society …
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Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
… step towards disentangling this problem is to define seduction, a concept that is contingent, ridden with confusion, contradictions and connotative interpretations, even in the gallery space (as recent exhibitions on seduction demonstrate). Any attempt at pinning down the term, however, shows …
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A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
… readings and interpretations of the works of the Marquis de Sade, from the eighteenth century to the present. Ever since he was imprisoned under the Old Regime following highly publicized instances of physical and sexual abuse, Sade has remained a controversial figure who has been both condemned …
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Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics
… “What is Post-conceptual Poetry?,” attempts to delineate the varying definitions of post-conceptualism offered by four critics (Felix Bernstein, Diana Hamilton, Vanessa Place, and Robert Fitterman). Finding none of these to be satisfactory, I turn towards the delineation of my own definition of …