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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Necrophilia."”.
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction …
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
… peculiar sacrifices from the poet of subjection, necrophilia, and even a form of “death” in the loss of his own personality; as a result, he is finally reduced to acting as the muse’s mouthpiece, a state akin to that of Pythia or Sibyl. Verse written under such duress instigates a new poetics …
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Stretched Out on Her Grave: Pathological Attitudes Toward Death in British Fiction 1788-1909
… or obsessed with death. While the label of necrophilia is an apt description of the fetishistic representations of dead women prevalent at the end of the century, it is too narrow to fit literature produced earlier in the century. This is not to say that abnormal attitudes toward death are …
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Till Coffee Do Us Part
… Baptist, to the point of committing an act of necrophilia. Also consider the lengths to which characters fall in love and have amazing misadventures in musicals, ranging from Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett’s willingness to go along with murder and make “meat”‐pies, to Brigadoon’s Tommy and Fiona’s …