A Pleasurable Arrangement

A Pleasurable Arrangement
Author: Alexandra Gilles
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493152319

Lady Emily Dane has never given a thought about her arranged marriage. Nor has she ever wondered about the duke that she is now married to. All Emily knows for sure is that she aims to not only be the dukes wife and the mother of his children but his lover as well. Gideon Grace, the Duke of Callous, has always had a temper and believes he will never come to love the woman his father married him to. Will Gideon finally be able to confront his demons and allow Emily into his heart?

For the Love of Pleasure

For the Love of Pleasure
Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813525341

The technological, economic and social landscape of the consumer society was formed between the 1880s and 1920s. The author of this study shows how cinema played a key role in changing the urban landscape, using Chicago as a model and linking cinema theory with women's studies.

Readings from Classical Rhetoric

Readings from Classical Rhetoric
Author: Patricia P. Matsen
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809315932

Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome. This unique anthology of primary texts in classical rhetoric contains the work of 24 ancient writers from Homer through St. Augustine, including Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus. Along with many widely recognized translations, special features include the first English translations of works by Theon and Nicolaus, as well as new translations of two works by important sophists, Gorgias' encomium on Helen and Alcidamas' essay on composition. The writers are grouped chronologically into historical periods, allowing the reader to understand the scope and significance of rhetoric in antiquity. Introductions are included to each period, as well as to each writer, with writers' biographies, major works, and salient features of excerpts.

Queer Objects

Queer Objects
Author: Guy Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0429536305

Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer modes of being. In the early 1990s the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined queer as “multiply transitive . . . relational and strange,” rather than a fixed identity. In spite of this, much of the queer theoretical scholarship of the last three decades has used queer as a synonym for anti-normative sexual identities. The contributions to this volume return to the idea of transitivity, exploring what happens when queer is thought of as a turning toward or turning away from a diverse range of objects, including bodily waste; frozen cats; archival ephemera; the writing of Virginia Woolf; the Pop art of Ray Johnson; the podcast S-Town; and Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Relevant to those studying queer theory, this book will also be of wider interest to those researching identity and the way in which it is represented in a variety of artistic disciplines. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.