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Showing posts with label the pornographic imagination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the pornographic imagination. Show all posts
23 Jul 2023

She Was Only a Farmer's Daughter ... Notes on the Case of Miriam Leivers

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Heather Sears as Miriam Leivers in  Sons and Lovers (dir. Jack Cardiff, 1960)   I.   The farmer's daughter is a stock character and com...
10 Mar 2022

Grand Austrian Perverts 2: Egon Schiele

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Photo by Anton Josef Trčka (1914)   Ich bestreite nicht, Bilder erotischer Natur gemacht zu haben.  Aber sie sind ...
28 Sept 2019

French Maid

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F. H. Clough: The French Maid (1950s) Grammatically speaking, I'm not sure if the word French, as used within English, is a mo...
10 Jun 2019

Two Blue Birds: D. H. Lawrence's Take on the Phenomenon of the Office Wife

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A secretary offers the only kind of polygamy we  recognize in this country. - Helen Gurley Brown I. Lawrence's short story...
1 Oct 2018

On Philosophy and Prostitution (Reflections on An Illicit Lover's Discourse)

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Everything I know I learned in  the School of Vice! I. Reading a fragment by Cioran in which he advises the philosopher who...
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8 Sept 2018

In Memory of Liz Fraser

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Liz Fraser in Carry On Cruising  (1962) I was very sorry to hear of the passing two days ago of busty British beauty and much-...
8 May 2018

Cruella De Vil: If She Doesn't Scare You, No Evil Thing Will

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Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil in Disney's 101 Dalmations (dir. Stephen Herek, 1996) Cruella De Vil is a character originally c...
6 May 2018

Capnolagnia (Fragment from an Illicit Lover's Discourse)

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Jennifer Lawrence in an ad for Dior Addict Lipstick (2015) Prior to the 20th century, smoking cigarettes was not something that ...
23 Feb 2018

Kitchen Sink Kink

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25 Jul 2017

In Praise of the Stiletto Heel

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The Dioressence stiletto Photo: Marton Perlaki for Dior According to Camille Paglia, the stiletto heel is "modern woman...
5 Jul 2017

Hot Gypsy Girls 1: On the Racial and Sexual Stereotyping of Romani Women

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I feel her, I see her, the sun caught in her raven hair  is blazing in me out of all control! It would not be unreasonable to arg...
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9 Jan 2017

On the Art of the Kiss 1: Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin: The Kiss (1901-04)  Tate Collection (1953, Reference: NO6228)   Pretty much everyone is familiar with Rodin's sc...
11 Mar 2016

Lady Chatterley's Daughter

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Cover of Lady Chatterley's Daughter , ed. Lawrence Lariar,  (Popular Library, 1960) At the end of Lady Chatterley's Lover ...
4 Mar 2016

Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Pornographic Imagination

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Poster for the English language version of   L'Amant de lady Chatterley   (dir. Marc Allégret, 1955) Although Lawre...
23 Apr 2014

Her Rich Attire Creeps Rustling to Her Knees

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Image from phantomseduction.tumblr.com Manufacturers of extremely beautiful and limited edition handmade silk knickers Strumpet a...