10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRURIENCE»
Discover the use of
prurience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prurience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crossing the Line in 250 Characters Or Less: Posts on ...
Learn what neither party wants you to know about our uniquely American political system and why a White House employee suggested this book for the President's reading list.There is enough in this book to offend anyone and inspire everyone.
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Pictures at an Execution
Art is obliged to be especially interested in prurience, since prurience is a
disease of the imagination; prurience is not unimaginativeness, a failure of
imagination, but a corrupt success of it. Prurience is, specifically, the disease that
afflicts ...
He goes on to point out that there is also something itchily iterative about the
attribution of prurience; to say that somebody else is being prurient in the modern
sense, privily scratching their own sexual itch, is always itself a somewhat
prurient ...
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Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex
The most appropriate label for such a generalized response is the rather
unfashionable term prurience. As Linda Williams remarks, prurience “is a key
term in any discussion of moving-image sex since the sixties. Often it is the “
interest” to ...
anism, and male homosexuality. It was clear that the "average person"4" would
be repelled rather than aroused by such materials and that the books, therefore,
made no appeal to the prurience of the "average person" at all. In a 6-3 decision,
...
Tucson Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona, 1985
'Your hands are moist and itching for my bed' (IV ii): Lowell lunges at prurience in
this line's travesty-marriage of callous cliche and intense physicality, where
Racine's cooler horror could be carried by the movement from 'le transport' to '
porte': ...
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The Future of Privacy: Private life and public policy
... in government the more the public accepts cost based competition,holistic
government,media prurience,the harder it is likely to be to justify augmentation of
the regulatory capacity of data protection authorities The relative independence
that ...
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Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy
prurience. Satire which purported to look unsparingly at sexual vice was almost
bound to be at the same time titillating, and this was well understood and
frequently exploited in the early eighteenth century. Satirists, and this was true of
Hogarth ...
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
the. PrInCe. oF. PrUrIenCe. anD. Loss. JOHN LELAND | november 2001, GQ (uS
) John Leland's Cohen profile includes evidence of the singer's penchant for
retelling stories: You've already heard the Irving Layton joke that opens this piece
, ...
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Literary Translation: A Practical Guide
Profanity,. prurience,. pornography. With time, most literary translators run into a
situation in which they are called upon to translate words that aren't to be found in
family newspapers, even as they are heard more and more on cable television.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRURIENCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
prurience is used in the context of the following news items.
Beyond a Voice and a Sad Story, 'Amy' Listens to a Life
Here and there Amy flirts with prurience, but prurience is hard to avoid with a young woman who, willy-nilly, lived her private life in public. And if ever there was ... «KQED, Jul 15»
Sex by Numbers: Wellcome Collection launches a national …
... alter ego Tammy WhyNot, and Christopher Green's new production 'Prurience', a piece of experiential theatre about addiction to pornography. Similarly, Sick! «Wellcome Trust, Feb 15»
(Nude) Pictures at an Exhibition
What began as a Galleria-area woman's vintage erotica collection has now become a personal museum of prurience. By; Michael Hardy; Published Sunday, ... «Houstonia Magazine, Feb 15»
The tat-world of dystopia that celebrities construct for themselves …
Even Thompson admits that critics knocked the 'prurience' of Blind Date 'with much justification', but the dominant mood of the biography, when not that of ... «Spectator.co.uk, Dec 14»
The Fall – misogyny in a veil of classiness?
... The Fall is still subtle enough – sometimes, only remembering this or that bit of imagery afterwards, I've found myself eagerly complicit in its fevered prurience ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
The lessons of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie.”
But the story's mischievous streak and its cheerful prurience kept the corn quotient low: a few gooey moments felt forgivable, given the over-all daring. Still, after ... «New Yorker, Jul 14»
The ugly prurience of RR Patil
The home minister of Maharashtra, R.R. Patil, isn't very good at his job. Worse, he has twice now successfully prevented thousands of people from doing theirs. «Livemint, Jun 14»
Politics has become an arena to celebrate all that is small
The real wonder is that this economic prurience has taken hold in hedonistic Britain of all places. This is a country with a consumer culture to rival America's ... «Financial Times, May 14»
A flashing good time at the XBiz Awards
Mixing red-carpet propriety and porno prurience, the XBiz Awards in L.A. celebrate both the performances and infrastructure that have made adult entertainment ... «Los Angeles Times, Feb 14»
Pressure grows on François Hollande to respond to affair claims
... Mr Hollande travels to the UK for a summit with David Cameron, prime minister, next Friday where he will surely meet the full force of Fleet Street's prurience. «Financial Times, Jan 14»
