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James Joyce’s “Dirty Letters” to His Wife Nora

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 29 September 2013 by delclem

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“The letters are by turns pornographic, erotic, romantic, poetic, and often downright funny, and they were written for Nora’s eyes alone in a correspondence initiated by her in November of 1909, while Joyce was in Dublin and she was in Trieste raising their two children in very straitened circumstances. Nora hoped to keep Joyce away from prostitutes by feeding his fantasies in writing, and Joyce needed to woo Nora again—she had threatened to leave him for his lack of financial support.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013

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“Lowbrow in High Places”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 1 April 2013 by delclem

Liebesgr¸fle aus der Lederhose I
“Four decades ago, the southern German state of Bavaria became the birthplace of a film genre like no other: the Lederhosen Porn. The alpine meadows were rugged, the men wore leather trousers, the porn was soft — and Germany was hooked.” Today, these films tell us much about zeitgeist, sexuality and gender in the 1970s >full text (c) DER SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013

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The Closure of ‘The Ukrainian Body’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 1 March 2012 by delclem

Sex, Nationalism, and Academic Freedom:
Kyiv has its home-grown debate on ‘degenerate art’.

“Controversy has erupted at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) over the recent closure of the art exhibition The Ukrainian Body at the university’s Visual Cultural Research Center (VCRC) and by the closure of the Center itself a few days later.

One can get a good sense of what was being shown at the exhibition from the review on the internet journal Art Ukraine.” >MORE

(c) John-Paul Himka & ukraineanalysis.com, 2012 (reblogged)

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Nazism as cheap turn-on?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 29 January 2012 by delclem

“From Ilsa, the She-Wolf of the SS to Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, cinema has long been fascinated by the Nazis – and their link to ‘deviant’ sexuality.”

Article by John Byrne (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012 Continue reading →

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