Author: TELENY.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Teleny, Or the Reverse of the Medal. A Physiological Romance of To-day. [Sometimes Attributed to Oscar Wilde.].
Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal: A Physiological Romance of To-day
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465612017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"That thrilling longing I had felt grew more and more intense, the craving so insatiable that it was changed to pain; the burning fire had now been fanned into a mighty flame, and my whole body was convulsed and writhed with mad desire. My lips were parched, I gasped for breath; my joints were stiff, my veins were swollen, yet I sat still, like all the crowd around me. But suddenly a heavy hand seemed to be laid upon my lap, something was hent and clasped and grasped, which made me faint with lust. The hand was moved up and down, slowly at first, then fast and faster it went in rhythm with the song. My brain began to reel as throughout every vein a burning lava coursed, and then, some drops even gushed out——I panted—— "All at once the pianist finished his piece with a crash amidst the thundering applause of the whole theatre. I myself heard nothing but the din of thunder, I saw a fiery hail, a rain of rubies and emeralds that was consuming the cities of the plain, and he, the pianist, standing naked in the lurid light, exposing himself to the thunderbolts of heaven and to the flames of hell. As he stood there, I saw him—in my madness—change all at once into Anubis, the dog-headed God of Egypt, then by degrees into a loathsome poodle. I started, I shivered, felt sick, but speedily he changed to his own form again. "I was powerless to applaud, I sat there dumb, motionless, nerveless, exhausted. My eyes were fixed upon the artist who stood there bowing listlessly, scornfully; while his own glances full of I eager and impassioned tenderness,' seemed to be seeking mine and mine alone. What a feeling of exultation awakened within me! But could he love me, and me only? For a trice the exultation gave way to bitter jealousy. Was I growing mad, I asked myself? "As I looked at him, his features seemed to be overshadowed by a deep melancholy, and—horrible to behold—I saw a small dagger plunged in his breast, with the blood flowing fast from the wound. I not only shuddered, but almost shrieked with fear, the vision was so real. My head was spinning round, I was growing faint and sick, I fell back exhausted in my chair, covering my eyes with my hands."
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465612017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"That thrilling longing I had felt grew more and more intense, the craving so insatiable that it was changed to pain; the burning fire had now been fanned into a mighty flame, and my whole body was convulsed and writhed with mad desire. My lips were parched, I gasped for breath; my joints were stiff, my veins were swollen, yet I sat still, like all the crowd around me. But suddenly a heavy hand seemed to be laid upon my lap, something was hent and clasped and grasped, which made me faint with lust. The hand was moved up and down, slowly at first, then fast and faster it went in rhythm with the song. My brain began to reel as throughout every vein a burning lava coursed, and then, some drops even gushed out——I panted—— "All at once the pianist finished his piece with a crash amidst the thundering applause of the whole theatre. I myself heard nothing but the din of thunder, I saw a fiery hail, a rain of rubies and emeralds that was consuming the cities of the plain, and he, the pianist, standing naked in the lurid light, exposing himself to the thunderbolts of heaven and to the flames of hell. As he stood there, I saw him—in my madness—change all at once into Anubis, the dog-headed God of Egypt, then by degrees into a loathsome poodle. I started, I shivered, felt sick, but speedily he changed to his own form again. "I was powerless to applaud, I sat there dumb, motionless, nerveless, exhausted. My eyes were fixed upon the artist who stood there bowing listlessly, scornfully; while his own glances full of I eager and impassioned tenderness,' seemed to be seeking mine and mine alone. What a feeling of exultation awakened within me! But could he love me, and me only? For a trice the exultation gave way to bitter jealousy. Was I growing mad, I asked myself? "As I looked at him, his features seemed to be overshadowed by a deep melancholy, and—horrible to behold—I saw a small dagger plunged in his breast, with the blood flowing fast from the wound. I not only shuddered, but almost shrieked with fear, the vision was so real. My head was spinning round, I was growing faint and sick, I fell back exhausted in my chair, covering my eyes with my hands."
Secrets of the British Museum
Author: Peter Fryer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Private Case--public Scandal
Author: Peter Fryer
Publisher: London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The "cupboard" books in the British Museum Library.
Publisher: London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The "cupboard" books in the British Museum Library.
Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Margaret Linley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131709865X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131709865X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.
Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
Author: Takis Kayalis
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.
Teleny Or the Reverse of the Medal
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756781965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Did Oscar Wilde write Teleny? Certainly, this story has often been attributed to him, in whole or in part. It is a problem that has exercised bibliographers of curiosa since the first publication of the 1883 edition, limited to 200 copies. The lush prose of this classic of homosexual love has great similarities with that of The Picture of Dorian Gray.Ó It recounts, in painfully graphic terms, the progress of the obsessive passion felt by Camille Des Grieux for Rene Teleny. The hot-house atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Paris is wonderfully evoked, & lends to this first great homosexual novel the claustrophobic atmosphere that characterized the love that dare not speak its name. A volume in the Wordsworth Classic Erotica series.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756781965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Did Oscar Wilde write Teleny? Certainly, this story has often been attributed to him, in whole or in part. It is a problem that has exercised bibliographers of curiosa since the first publication of the 1883 edition, limited to 200 copies. The lush prose of this classic of homosexual love has great similarities with that of The Picture of Dorian Gray.Ó It recounts, in painfully graphic terms, the progress of the obsessive passion felt by Camille Des Grieux for Rene Teleny. The hot-house atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Paris is wonderfully evoked, & lends to this first great homosexual novel the claustrophobic atmosphere that characterized the love that dare not speak its name. A volume in the Wordsworth Classic Erotica series.
The Male Body in Medicine and Literature
Author: Andrew Mangham
Publisher: Liverpool English Texts and St
ISBN: 1786940523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.
Publisher: Liverpool English Texts and St
ISBN: 1786940523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.
Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups
Author: Jo Ann Oravec
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454933
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book explores the social dimensions of the powerful computing applications that are shaping our culture, in both design and use.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454933
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book explores the social dimensions of the powerful computing applications that are shaping our culture, in both design and use.
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.