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Gender and Laughter
This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled “Gender – Laughter – Media” (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post-)colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership.
Come! Come! Where? Where?
James Seay's essays reflect a poet's eye for detail and a seeker's wrestling with life's big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting mental illness, observing and living through the collision of cultures, finding the universal in the particularity of every day. We share moments with Seay that stay with us, dipping in and out of his life and our own collective experience, as he reflects on childhood memories of his grandmother wringing chicken necks for Sunday dinner, reads his way through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, processes 9/11, watches The Sopranos, and ponders the American obsession with guns. These essays transport readers—from the South to the Southwest, from the former Soviet Union to France, and beyond—while exploring disparate topics, often using literature as a means of understanding culture and place. Seay offers few easy answers for the big questions he explores. But walking with him on his journeys will open eyes to the possibilities, tenderness, and mysteries that surround us, hidden among everyday things.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud’s name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better than before. His unique ideas are discussed in academic circles. His psychoanalytic techniques influenced mental health, counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatry. His words form part of everyday language. Lying on a couch and having dreams interpreted by an analyst is an iconic picture of modern life and popular culture. Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. The volume features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and the dictionary section lists entries on Freud, his family, friends (and foes), colleagues, and the evolution of psychoanalysis.
Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-1945
This volume focuses on the contribution of refugees from Nazism to the Arts in Britain. The essays examine the much neglected theme of art in internment and address the spheres of photography, political satire, sculpture, architecture, artists’ organisations, institutional models, dealership and conservation. These are considered under the broad headings ‘Art as Politics’, ‘Between the Public and the Domestic’ and ‘Creating Frameworks’. Such categories assist in posing questions regarding the politics of identity and gender, as well as providing an opportunity to explore the complex issues of cultural formation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century art history, museum and conservation studies, politics and cultural studies, in addition to those involved in German Studies and in German and Austrian Exile Studies.
Letters of Sigmund Freud
First extensive selection of Freud's correspondence: 315 letters to Einstein, Jung, H. G. Wells, Thomas Mann, many others. Numerous love letters to Martha Bernays. Bibliography. Footnotes.
Pulsions de femmes
Fidèles à leur tradition, les Éditions Blanche laissent libre cours aux univers fantasmatiques d'une quinzaine de femmes autour du thème de la pulsion, pour cet opus. Thème riche et évocateur, les pulsions féminines, quelles qu'elles soient, nous entraînent vers des cieux insoupçonnés où nous nous perdons avec délices. Attention, ces femmes sont dangereuses et nous entraînent sur les chemins des jouissances absolues. De tous âges, de tous horizons (journalistes, femmes politiques, avocate, professeurs, femmes d'affaires, psychanalystes...) chacune de ces femmes a imaginé pour nous une histoire de passion où elle dévoile le meilleur et le pire d'elle-même, conduisant le lecteur au paradis des lectures amoureuses.
Je ne m'ennuie jamais toute seule
Livre drôle, sensuel, rafraîchissant, Je ne m'ennuie jamais toute seule...est le premier texte consacré à la masturbation féminine. Lucie Lux, jeune trentenaire ne connaît pas l'orgasme, la formidable envolée des sens, dans les bras de son ami Ben. Elle s'en confie à une amie qui lui demande si elle atteint l'orgasme en se masturbant. Par pudeur, par morale, elle doit bien avouer qu'elle ne s'est jamais masturbée. « Comment veux-tu que Ben puisse te faire connaître l'orgasme, si toi-même tu n'arrives pas à l'atteindre », lui assène avec bon sens son amie. En femme moderne et résolue, Lucie Lux va suivre ce conseil à la lettre et s'intéresser à son corps. Mais rien ne se pa...
