Guilty Pleasures - 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 Guilty Pleasures write by Laurell K. Hamilton. This book was released on 2002-09-24. Guilty Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures - 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 Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures write by Arielle Zibrak. This book was released on 2021-05-04. Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims the femme fictions dismissed as "trash" to celebrate the surprisingly cathartic pleasures of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of patriarchal culture"--
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures - 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 Guilty Pleasures write by Lawrence Sanders. This book was released on 1998-02-01. Guilty Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures - 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 Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures write by Timothy Aubry. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies’ embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature’s role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature’s formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social order. This suspicion of aesthetics became the default posture within literary scholarship, a means of establishing the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s political commitments. Yet as Timothy Aubry explains, aesthetic pleasure never fully disappeared from the academy. It simply went underground. From New Criticism to the digital humanities, Aubry recasts aesthetics as the complicated, morally ambiguous, embattled yet resilient protagonist in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first–century literary studies. He argues that academic critics never stopped asserting preferences for certain texts, rhetorical strategies, or intellectual responses. Rather than serving as the enemy of formalism and aesthetics, political criticism enabled scholars to promote heightened experiences of perceptual acuity and complexity while adjudicating which formal strategies are best designed to bolster these experiences. Political criticism, in other words, did not eradicate but served covertly to nurture reading practices aimed at achieving aesthetic satisfaction. Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures shows that literary studies’ break with midcentury formalism was not as clean as it once appeared. Today, when so many scholars are advocating renewed attention to textual surfaces and aesthetic experiences, Aubry’s work illuminates the surprisingly vast common ground between the formalists and the schools of criticism that succeeded them.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures - 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 Guilty Pleasures write by Hugh McIntosh. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Guilty Pleasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Guilty pleasures in one’s reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived in the public sphere as at once beloved and contested objects, an ambivalence that reflected and informed America’s cultural insecurity. This became a matter of nationhood as well as aesthetics: the amateurism of popular narratives resonated with the discourse of new nationhood. In Guilty Pleasures, Hugh McIntosh examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to such best-sellers as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ben Hur, and Trilby as well as fictional representations—from Trollope to Baldwin—of American culture’s lack of artistic greatness. Drawing on a transatlantic archive of contemporary criticism, urban display, parody, and advertising, Guilty Pleasures thoroughly documents how the conflicted attitude toward popular novels shaped these ephemeral modes of response. Paying close attention to this material history of novel reading, McIntosh reveals how popular fiction’s unique status as socially saturating and aesthetically questionable inspired public reflection on what it meant to belong to a flawed national community.
