Ars Erotica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ars Erotica write by Richard Shusterman. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Ars Erotica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.
Foucault and the Kamasutra
Foucault and the Kamasutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault and the Kamasutra write by Sanjay K. Gautam. This book was released on 2016-06-22. Foucault and the Kamasutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself.
Ars Erotica
Ars Erotica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ars Erotica write by Edward Lucie-Smith. This book was released on 1997. Ars Erotica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ars Erotica
Ars Erotica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ars Erotica write by Edward Lucie-Smith. This book was released on 1997. Ars Erotica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The social course of sexuality is revealed in the erotic poetry and prose of writers from ancient times through the present, including John Donne, Pablo Neruda, the Marquis de Sade, e.e. cummings, and many anonymous writers.
Ovid's Erotic Poems
Ovid's Erotic Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ovid's Erotic Poems write by Ovid. This book was released on 2014-10-22. Ovid's Erotic Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.
