Search results for "Eroticism"
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De la visión y el espanto : el tacto suspendido y la experiencia ante el límite
2017
En la pintura del pintor bogotano Epifanio Garay (1849-1903), “La mujer del Levita”, la fascinación y el espanto entran en escena. El acto representado da pie para formular un diálogo con lo que sugería Pascal Quignard cuando decía que para los romanos “el sexo estaba ligado al espanto”. A partir de esta premisa, las próximas páginas se proponen dialogar con todo aquello que para los antiguos prefiguraba la interdicción ante todo cadáver: “no tocar”. Sin embargo, se verá que todo se juega en el momento en que, en la escena de la pintura, el tacto se suspende y la prohibición es puesta en suspenso. La mirada del horror, la mirada tautológica, los ojos del éxtasis, son algunos de los canales …
Fashion and Eroticism Men's Underwear in the Context of Eroticism
2001
What is the process when historically obviously neutral things are becoming loaded with mental meanings, associations and qualities, getting a new turn of expression? The article deals with the changing of men’s underwear from garments of pure utility to high fashionable, visible things. The context in which the change has taken place, the language which supports the new meanings, the forms, colours and use of the “unmentionable” are studied from an ethnological viewpoint. The author emphasises the aspects of new adaptations of the meaning of fashion in relation to changing gender roles, new ideals of the body and new mechanisms in consumer culture.
L’erotisme a les Cartes a les Senyores dels Àngels i de Jerusalem, de Francesc Fontanella
2014
Resum: Aquest article se centra en l'estudi del tractament de l'erotisme en algunes de les composicions pòetiques de Francesc Fontanella (1622-1682/3). El treball estudia quinze epístoles literàries que l'autor va dedicar a les monges dels convents dels Àngels i de Jerusalem de Barcelona durant la dècada de 1640. Es divideix en dues parts; a la primera s'identifiquen les composicions objecte d'estudi, es presenten breument i s'aclareixen alguns problemes relacionats amb la seva transmissió. A la segona s'analitzen detalladament totes les referències eròtiques presents als textos. Aquesta anàlisi, d'una banda, permet presentar una interpretació del sentit argumental del conjunt epistolar. D…
When Eroticism Makes Luxury Fashion Brands Fly: Introducing the Construct of Eroticism, Providing a First Measurement and Rank of Luxury Fashion Bran…
2021
States of Exception: Auto-immunity and the Body Politic in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
2010
The essay starts by referring to a central moment in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, when the Roman hero reacts to his banishment by banishing: “I banish you!" (3.3.123). These lines, the essay argues, provide, in a condensed form, a radical shift of perspective on the question of the boundaries of Rome: how far does Rome extend? Can Rome banish herself ? Does Rome move with Coriolanus as he moves “elsewhere” (3. 3. 135)? They also force the audience to reconsider the "nature" of the political decision that leads to the ban. Taking its cue from this line, the essay shows that the question of boundaries in Coriolanus is intimately connected with the uncanny logic of "auto-immunity" which affects R…
Sappho, Hegel and Michael Field: Paradox and desire in lyric III
2021
This article offers a close reading of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s lyric III in Long Ago, a Sapphic volume of verse published in 1889 under the collaborative nom de plume of Michael Field. This collection articulates a dramatic inquiry into the tragedy of unrequited love in a long cycle of lyrics whose third piece most effectively encapsulates the kernel of what the Fields reconstruct as Sappho’s ambivalent eroticism. The outcome of this reconstruction, as analysed in light of lyric III, is a consistent Hegelian view of desire that subsumes a complex system of tropes, myths, paradoxes and imaginative strategies under an overarching ideology of desire as a radical experience of appr…
Réécriture et reformulation des topiques descriptifs du ġazal homoérotique dans le Nasīm al-ṣabā (La brise du vent d’est) d’Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (m. 1…
2023
In his work entitled Nasīm al-ṣabā (The Breeze of the East Wind), Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (d. 1377) dedicates a chapter to the description of a young man (ġulām). This chapter is characterized by the presence of two parts which differ from a stylistic point of view. This paper deals with the central part of the chapter, which is entirely descriptive. The description of the ephebe in this central part shows great detail both descriptively (regarding the physical features of the ephebe) and thematically (regarding the topics used). In this part, the descriptive topics of the ephebe present in the classical homoerotic ġazal are transposed and reformulated in saǧ‘ (rhymed prose). A salient feature …
Richard Francis Burton. Victorian Explorer and Translator
2012
This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Analysis focuses on his travel accounts and erotic translations, which both re-elaborated and challenged dominant Victorian discourses on race, gender and sexuality, generating controversies in the fields of anthropology, sexology and medicine. The premise of the study is that Burton entertained an ambiguous relationship with the colonial institutions: on the one hand, he pursued the colonial project, while on the other, he was an irreverent outsider who clashed with the imperial authorities. As this investigation reveals, he defied British …
Atti e perversioni
2022
Il contributo intende tracciare una ricognizione generale della rappresentazione nel cinema italiano dal dopoguerra a oggi del rapporto che intercorre tra gli atti a sfondo erotico e le perversioni associate. Attraverso una serie di casi di studio, l'analisi cercherà di rendere conto delle principali direttrici che hanno segnato il cinema nazionale nella messa in scena del rapporto tra italiani e eros in una società in continua trasformazione
«Un baciar furioso, un dispogliarsi»:Costanzo Festa and eroticism
2009
Nel saggio viene analizzato un madrigale di Costanzo Festa su testo poetico anonimo, a soggetto scopertamente erotico non schermato da ambientazioni pastorali o da metafore allusive. E' estremamente raro incontrare nle corpus madrigalesco intonazioni di testi di tale natura. Perciò la prima parte del saggio propone una circostanziata contestrualizzazione di tale madrigale, individuata nell'antripetrarchismo, e lo accosta alla raccolta di poesie erotiche di Aretino nota come "I modi". Nella seconda parte, il madrigale è analizzato dal punto di vista composiivo, evidenziando come la tematica erotica abbia spinto Festa ad inoltrarsi sul terreno dell'espressività, con singolare intensità.