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Monsieur Venus (Paperback)
Rachilde; Edited by Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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R696
Discovery Miles 6 960
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When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes
enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial
flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and
eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former
hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that
ensue. A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the
early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity
with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the
Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a
Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in
prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new
vice.
As the existentialist philosophers of mid-twentieth-century
Paris famously asserted, a life can only be assessed fully after it
has ended. Fitting, then, that since her death in 1986, the
philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir has been the subject of
numerous attempts to evaluate her contributions to intellectual
thought. With the uncovering of her early diaries and the recent
publication of her passionate letters to Nelson Algren, she has
become more than a towering figure of twentieth-century feminism.
She is at once an intensely human figure and a fertile field for
application of various sexual constructs and for argument over
feminist principles.
Edited by Melanie C. Hawthorne, this volume brings into play a
variety of fresh voices, from a Swedish novelist and advice
columnist to an interdisciplinary theorist of decadence. The essays
address the multitude of issues arising from the affective,
personal, political, and sexual dimensions of Beauvoir's life and
work. Fifty years after the publication of The Second Sex,
Contingent Loves offers a wide-ranging discussion of the
immeasurable impact Simone de Beauvoir has had on feminist
discourse.
Contents: - "Translation Effects: How Beauvoir Talks Sex in
English," Luise Von Flotow, University of Ottawa - "Variations on
Triangular Relationships," Serge Julienne-Caffie, Philadelphia, Pa.
- "Lecon de Philo/Lesson in Love: Simone de Beauvoir's Intellectual
Passion and the Mobilization of Desire," Melanie C. Hawthorne,
Texas A&M University - "Sensuality and Brutality:
Contradictions in Simone de Beauvoir's Writings about Sexuality,"
Asa Moberg, Sweden - "Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren:
Self-Creation, Self-Contradiction, and the Exotic, Erotic Feminist
Other," Barbara Klaw, Northern Kentucky University - "Simone de
Beauvoir on Henry de Montherlant: A Map of Misreading?" Richard J.
Golsan, Texas A&M University - "'Le Prototype de la Fade
Repetition': Beauvoir and Butler on the Work of Abjection in
Repetitions and Reconfigurations of Gender," Liz Constable,
University of California, Davis
As the existentialist philosophers of mid-twentieth-century
Paris famously asserted, a life can only be assessed fully after it
has ended. Fitting, then, that since her death in 1986, the
philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir has been the subject of
numerous attempts to evaluate her contributions to intellectual
thought. With the uncovering of her early diaries and the recent
publication of her passionate letters to Nelson Algren, she has
become more than a towering figure of twentieth-century feminism.
She is at once an intensely human figure and a fertile field for
application of various sexual constructs and for argument over
feminist principles.
Edited by Melanie C. Hawthorne, this volume brings into play a
variety of fresh voices, from a Swedish novelist and advice
columnist to an interdisciplinary theorist of decadence. The essays
address the multitude of issues arising from the affective,
personal, political, and sexual dimensions of Beauvoir's life and
work. Fifty years after the publication of The Second Sex,
Contingent Loves offers a wide-ranging discussion of the
immeasurable impact Simone de Beauvoir has had on feminist
discourse.
Contents: - "Translation Effects: How Beauvoir Talks Sex in
English," Luise Von Flotow, University of Ottawa - "Variations on
Triangular Relationships," Serge Julienne-Caffie, Philadelphia, Pa.
- "Lecon de Philo/Lesson in Love: Simone de Beauvoir's Intellectual
Passion and the Mobilization of Desire," Melanie C. Hawthorne,
Texas A&M University - "Sensuality and Brutality:
Contradictions in Simone de Beauvoir's Writings about Sexuality,"
Asa Moberg, Sweden - "Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren:
Self-Creation, Self-Contradiction, and the Exotic, Erotic Feminist
Other," Barbara Klaw, Northern Kentucky University - "Simone de
Beauvoir on Henry de Montherlant: A Map of Misreading?" Richard J.
Golsan, Texas A&M University - "'Le Prototype de la Fade
Repetition': Beauvoir and Butler on the Work of Abjection in
Repetitions and Reconfigurations of Gender," Liz Constable,
University of California, Davis
An English translation of short stories by Renee Vivien
(1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque,
questions gender roles, and represents same-sex love and desire.
Stories feature unreliable narrators and include rewritten fairy
tales and ancient myths, adventure stories in the American West and
at sea, and others.
A collection of short stories by Renee Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects
and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender
roles, and represents same-sex love and desire. Stories feature
unreliable narrators and include rewritten fairy tales and ancient
myths, adventure stories in the American West and at sea, and
others.
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