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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"eroticism"”.
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The blue flame and the red flame : love and eroticism
… is an explorative journey into the realm of eroticism. A primary emphasis is placed on the necessity to differentiate erotic experience from the pornographic one. The claim here is that eroticism cannot unfold where the notion of an "indispensable other", and hence the element of love, do not …
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Alive in death : Bataillean eroticism in the 60s gothic cinema of Mario Bava
In the opening of Eroticism, Geroges Bataille’s seminal text on the relationship between death and sensuality, he chose a quote from the Marques De Sade: ‘There is no better way to know death than to tie it to some licentious image’. It is my contention in this thesis that few filmmakers understand …
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‘A contradiction in essence’: Eroticism and the Creation of the Self in Henry Miller
… a transition is made from an object-based eroticism to an objectless eroticism of writing – and this done with the intention of revealing the significance of Miller’s work, which is in its use as a blueprint for self-creation through an artistic practice.</p>
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
… the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism implicit in male bonding. Theories of genre, gender and identity are used to analyze the construction of masculine identity within the films. By providing a qualitative analysis of films from the 1960s to contemporary times, the research …
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Shakespeare and the cinema of excess
… from the work of Georges Bataille, who used "eroticism" to describe a confrontation with excess that destabilises the individual’s sense of identity. Bataille suggests that art can allow audiences to experience a measure of eroticism by presenting subjects that transgress established taboos …
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John Boyle, Greg Curnoe and Joyce Wieland: Erotic Art and English Canadian Nationalism
This dissertation concerns the relation between eroticism and nationalism in the work of a set of English Canadian artists in the mid-1960s-70s, namely John Boyle, Greg Curnoe, and Joyce Wieland. It contends that within their bodies of work there are ways of imagining nationalism and eroticism that …
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Erotikos sklaida M. Katiliškio romane „Miškais ateina ruduo“ /
… literature because of its bold spread of eroticism. The topic of the thesis is the spread of eroticism in the novel “Miškais ateina ruduo” by M. Katiliškis. The selection of the topic was determined by the wish to reveal the attitude of the author and his contemporaries towards erotika, to …
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The Spirit Cabinet
… to explore sexuality and the fuzzy lines between eroticism and friendship.
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
… thought and practice. I examine Black women’s eroticism as a production and reflection of African pleasure, sexuality, and intimacy. This work employs Afrocentricity as a methodological tool to engage with sexual expressions that center on African historical, social, political, and social …
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La chute de la femme-objet:comment Catherine Breillat intègre son discours érotique féminin à la conceptualisation de la femme-sujet, à travers la caméra, dans ses deux films Anatomie de L'enfer et À ma soeur
… Lauretis 1987, 18). In Breillat's movies, the eroticism will focus on the woman's body, showing that it is possible to depict the feminine eroticism in a way that will emphasize the woman's role as a genuine subject and not as a mere object. All that a woman can express as a subject, I call …
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Bird Bones and a Hatched Egg
… Using the idea of the double-image and eroticism, the poet places her work in the category of the surreal. She describes the process of writing poetry born of fragmentary elements as a feminist emergence of agency. The manuscript is composed of four sections, each an element in the …
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Joyce Mansour's poetics: A discourse of plurality by a second-generation surrealist poet
… poetic-collage, and highlights the function of eroticism as a liberating force. Georges Bataille's study of Eroticism in literature and surrealism contributes to our study. This chapter also recognizes Mansour's use of Egyptian myths as one of the pillar of her narrative structure. It will show …
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Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric.
… in lyric poetry by analyzing the themes of eroticism, transcendence and the sacred in the Roman poet Catullus and tracing the reception of Catullus in English lyric in Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Carew. I argue that the function of the erotic in lyric discourse underwent a major shift in …
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The Evolution of Marie de France's Lanval
… in terms of female agency, empowerment and eroticism. While some of these motifs seem to reflect more modern understandings of gender dynamics and conceptualizations of women, a critical analysis of Marie's original text in combination with an exploration of Celtic sources reveals that these …
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Women as Heroes in the Patrirchal Society: The Roles of Susanna, Esther and Judith
… each narrative, the plots involve the power of eroticism and the tension created by male desire, which makes the women both vulnerable and powerful. Perhaps the most striking feature of each narrative, and one which offers a contradiction of patriarchal assumptions, is each woman’s capacity to …
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The informe in David Lynch's cinema : reading American film through the 'Philosophy' of Georges Bataille
… his focus on genuine human connectedness, eroticism and transgression, all of which are couched within a broader philosophical emphasis that emerges in his work on the need for balance in social existence between the 'heterogeneous' or 'sacred' aspects of society on the one hand, and the …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
… realm. These new urban spaces of encounter, eroticism, and exposure to othernesses in Los Angeles can push this city to a more urban, more inclusive future.
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Geografias De Resistencia: Espacio Poetico Y Homosexualidad Masculina en La Poesia Espanola Contemporanea
… rooms, this urban dynamic of love, desire, and eroticism points to the relevance of the culture of everyday life in the creative process, as well as to a social habitus in direct opposition to the ideological tenets of compulsory heterosexuality. Hence, this dissertation has studied this …
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