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An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge

By: Rachele Dini,Chiara Briganti

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An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge

By: Rachele Dini,Chiara Briganti

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984. Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creative thinking takes many forms – from redefining an issue in a novel way to making unexpected and illuminating connections. Foucault’s particular talent could perhaps best be described as turning questions inside out. In the case of sexuality, for instance, his interpretation of the historical evidence led him to argue that the sexual categories that we are used to (homosexual, lesbian, straight, and so on) are not “natural,” but constructs that are products of the ways in which power and knowledge interact in society. Such categories, Foucault continues, actually serve to produce the desires they seek to name. And their creation, in turn, is closely linked to the power that society exerts on those who belong to different sexual groups. Foucault’s ideas – familiar now – were so novel in their time that they proved highly challenging. But to see the world through Foucault’s thought is to see it in a profoundly different and illuminating way – an example of creative thinking at its best.

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CRC Press

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135135230X

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Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

By: Chiara Briganti,Kathy Mezei

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Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

By: Chiara Briganti,Kathy Mezei

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young provides a valuable analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women, who have suffered not only from a lack of critical attention but from the assumption that experimental modernist techniques are the only expression of the modern. In the process of documenting the publication and reception history of E. H. Young's novels, the authors suggest a paradigm for analyzing the situation of women writers during the interwar years. Their discussion of Young in the context of both canonical and noncanonical writers challenges the generic label and literary status of the domestic novel, as well as facile assumptions about popular and middlebrow fiction, canon formation, aesthetic value, and modernity. The authors also make a significant contribution to discussions of the everyday and to the burgeoning field of 'homeculture,' as they show that the fictional embodiment and inscription of home by writers such as Young, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lettice Cooper, E. M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, Storm Jameson, and E. Arnot Robertson epitomize the long-standing symbiosis between architecture and literature, or more specifically, between the house and the novel.

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Routledge

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135194309X

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Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature

By: Chiara Giuliani

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Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature

By: Chiara Giuliani

This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.

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189

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Springer Nature

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3030750639

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9783030750633

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

By: Valeria P. Babini,Chiara Beccalossi,Lucy Riall

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Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

By: Valeria P. Babini,Chiara Beccalossi,Lucy Riall

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.

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1137396997

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9781137396990

The Borghese Gallery

By: Paolo Moreno,Chiara Stefani

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The Borghese Gallery

By: Paolo Moreno,Chiara Stefani

Rome's Galleria Borghese, home of the Borghese family, influential in the 17th and 19th centuries, now contains some of the greatest pieces of Western art. The home and museum features work by masters such as Raphael, Coanova, Bernini, and Caravaggio. This guidebook leads the reader room by room, describing each work of art along with its symbolism and cultural references. Also included are hundreds of color reproductions and commentary on each piece.

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Touring Editore

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8836519466

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9788836519460

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

By: Chiara Briganti,Kathy Mezei

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Book's by Chiara Briganti

An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature

Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

The Borghese Gallery

The Borghese Gallery

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young

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