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Author | : Steven Ruszczycky |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 022678875X |
Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium. Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, Vulgar Genres reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life.
Author | : Jack Lowery |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1645036596 |
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury’s art and activism from iconic images like the “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP’s strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.
Author | : Lisa Downing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107140498 |
Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault's key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.
Author | : Robert McParland |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1476630305 |
As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantastic themes of artists from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Drawing on insights from Joseph Campbell, J.G. Frazer, Carl Jung and Mircea Eliade, the author examines how performers have incorporated mythic archetypes and science fiction imagery into songs that illustrate societal concerns and futuristic fantasies.
Author | : Jean-Louis Michon |
Publisher | : World Wisdom, Inc |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0941532755 |
A collection of essays on Sufism, written by such contemporary contributors as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Chittick, and Frithjof Schuon, demystifies its language, philosophies, and history, in a volume that also provides interpretations of classic and modern essays. Original.
Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-09-05 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1781683840 |
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
Author | : Robert Doran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107101530 |
The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.
Author | : Fabian Holt |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226350398 |
Author | : Elizabeth Aubrey |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253213891 |
"The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes"--Back cover
Author | : al-Shābushtī |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2023-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 147982576X |
"A literary anthology of poetry and anecdotes related to Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East"--