Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Erotic writing'

This collection of short stories and the accompanying critical exegesis interrogates whether eroticism, as defined by Georges Bataille, is possible in contemporary erotic writing. The project employs a Lacanian lens through which to examine the notions of transgression, selfhood, transcendence and language as aspects of Bataillean eroticism. It argues that works in the erotica genre such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey' rely on nostalgia for the transgression of prohibitions that no longer hold moral authority. This project argues, theoretically and creatively, that we must discover and define what constitutes contemporary taboos and prohibitions in mainstream society if we are to formulate new erotic works that explore their transgression.

This thesis brings together the two genres for which Nin has become so (in)famous: her autobiography and her erotica in what I have termed 'auto/erotica'. By reading her autobiography and her erotica in and against each other I attempt to explore her development of a feminine aesthetic, or 'womb writing' as a strategy of resistance with which to challenge dominant discourses of 'woman' and the 'feminine', and her exclusion from cultural production. Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, this thesis explores the role of the border in the cultural production of bodies and sexual difference within Western discourses of sexuality, with particular reference to the discourses of psychoanalysis, modernism and pornography/erotica. My focus is on the trope of the borderline within Nin's texts, which, I argue is less a marker of radical difference than a site of instability offering the possibility of 'other' or 'between' spaces of resistance. This study engages with the politics of gender and genre by drawing on various feminist rewritings of autobiographical theory and Jacques Derrida's 'The Law of Genre' and the Ear of the Other in order to explore the tension between the 'auto' (the selfsame) and the 'graphy' in the formation of the 'bio' and gender identity. I explore how the threat of the other within the selfsame, the tracing of the differance of desire, affects the generic self-identity of 'autobiography' and 'erotica' as representations of (sexual) identity. Nin utilises the radical instability of the autobiographical genre to put into question the 'genre' of gender identity, the gendering of genre and the undecidable border between the 'body' and the 'text', the 'life' and the 'work'. Drawing on various psychoanalytical feminist film theories of the female spectator and the masquerade I explore how Nin performs the 'feminine' or 'woman' of (male) Surrealist and mainstream heterosexual pornography/erotica in order to emphasise the gaps, to hold at a distance, the female from the feminine. The concern of this thesis is the 'ob/scene' margins of 'erotica' and the trace of 'otherness' that threatens the single and self-identical body/text. The 'outworks' or prefaces of Nin's work not only disrupt fixed generic boundaries but also echo the desiring subject's fantasy of gender identity, wholeness and unity. By drawing attention to the role of vision in the constitution of gendered subjectivity and the (re)production of the phallus as the primary signifier of desire, I explore how Nin's erotica undermines a position of phallic certainty by drawing attention to the out-of-sight spaces, of 'ob/scene' pleasures that disturb and disrupt the illusion of 'masculine' phallic mastery. I argue that it is in the 'inter view', this dialogue or movement between (at least) two genres - autobiography and erotica - that other possible representations might be glimpsed.

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While looking to the body and finding it engraved by cultural, imaginary and power-related texts through a discourse embodied in itself, this research proposes a new vertiginous approach to it by analyzing the following works: Poesia completa II, more specifically, Educa??o sentimental, and Novas cartas portuguesas. Such transgressive and performatic works are from Maria Teresa Horta (1937-), Portuguese writer, who proposes a new education by a renewed language: a sentimental education spawned from the erotic element. Starting from the deconstruction of the view over the spoiled body and exposed in Novas cartas portuguesas, from the poetic texts in Educa??o sentimental, as well as in remaining ones in Poesia completa II, Horta disassembles and reassembles the body, giving a new meaning to the symbols that surround us and our experiences. Other than proposing to all, men and women, such new meaning of the behavior and current practices models, Horta s education allows, through a performance action, the construction of a stage for female identity, free from the phallic influence. A new identity, able to handle all holy and profane characteristics of women, discarding the chromatic lens of sin. Horta s poetry emerges as a new proposal of literary labor
Esta pesquisa, ao passo que olha para o corpo e o enxerga tatuado pelos textos da cultura, do imagin?rio e do poder, atrav?s de um discurso que se inscreve nele, vem propor uma vertigem do olhar sobre o mesmo atrav?s da an?lise das obras: Poesia completa II, especificamente, Educa??o sentimental, e Novas cartas portuguesas. Tais obras transgressoras e perform?ticas s?o de Maria Teresa Horta (1937-), escritora portuguesa, a qual vem propor, ao n?vel de uma linguagem renovada, uma educa??o outra: uma educa??o sentimental, a qual nasce do elemento er?tico. Partindo da desconstru??o do olhar sobre o corpo marcado e denunciado atrav?s de Novas cartas portuguesas, e dos textos po?ticos da obra Educa??o sentimental, bem como dos demais que v?m compor a obra Poesia completa II, Horta desmonta e remonta o corpo, re-significando a m?scara signal?tica a qual nos envolve e envolve as nossas viv?ncias. Al?m de propor a todos, homens e mulheres, tal re-significa??o dos modelos de comportamentos e pr?ticas vigentes, a educa??o horteana vem possibilitar, atrav?s da performance, a constru??o de um espa?o para a identidade feminina, livre da clausura do poder f?lico. Uma nova identidade a qual possa envolver todas as caracter?sticas sagradas e profanas da mulher, descartando a lente crom?tica do pecado. A po?tica horteana surge ent?o, como uma nova proposta do fazer liter?rio

Philosophy
Ph.D.
While many Simone de Beauvoir scholars have discussed the importance of the category of the erotic in Beauvoir's philosophical works, none explored the importance of Beauvoir's early autobiographical works to our understanding of the development of Beauvoir's ethical philosophy nor have they suggested how Beauvoir's ethical engagement with the erotic might be pertinent to black feminist philosophy. As such, this dissertation is a two-fold project. First, it presents an account of the lived experience of Beauvoir as illustrated through her early autobiographical works. This account focuses primarily on Beauvoir's romantic relationships and traces the development of her conversions leading to her most important philosophical contribution, that of existential ethics, through her accounts of these romantic relationships. Using Beauvoir's Diary of a Philosophy Student, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Wartime Diary, The Prime of Life, and Letters to Sartre, I maintain that it is only through our close engagement with these early autobiographical writings about her philosophical understanding of her romantic relationships that we are able to understand how Beauvoir comes into the ethical views that will inform the rest of her writing career. Beauvoir's focus on embodiment, facticity, conversion, and lived experience illustrate the extent to which these matters are inextricable from her existential ethics. Beauvoir claims in her philosophical ethical writings that the erotic moment serves a privileged moment when we encounter the other. Both Beauvoir's autobiographical writings and her ethical writings provide us with what is termed a "disposition toward the erotic," which is an attitude that stems from reflection upon and lived experience with the other in love or an erotic encounter, where we choose to encounter non-beloved others in a manner similar to that which we encounter the beloved other. In this way, a disposition toward the erotic is the foundation of Beauvoir's ethical assertions, with regard to what obligations we have toward the freedoms of others and how and why it is our ethical duty to fight against oppressive circumstances. The second part of this project draws a bridge between Beauvoir's ethical writings concerning the topic of the erotic and black feminism. As such, I begin my discussion of black feminism by talking about Black women's lived experience as recounted through black feminism itself. After this, I focus on Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," bell hooks' series of books on love and Patricia Hill-Collins' Black Sexual Politics, since these serve as sources of direct black feminist engagement with the question of the erotic. I maintain that, in very important ways, black women's lived experience with the erotic has also informed the aims of the project of black feminism. As such, I illustrate how black women's lived experience has been colored by oppressive views of black women's embodiment and sexuality. I argue, as opposed to oppressive understandings of black women and their relationships toward their bodies, that this disposition toward the erotic is a stance that black feminism fundamentally shares with Beauvoir's existential ethics.
Temple University--Theses

Le but de cette thèse est d’étudier l’écriture du corps chez deux romancières qui ont l’Afrique comme terre natale ; Ahlam Mosteghanemi de l’Algérie et Calixthe Beyala du Cameroun. Notre analyse trace l’inscription du corps dans une structure symbolique où se croisent discours sociaux et pratiques littéraires. L’écriture du corps, féminin et masculin, est étudiée dans une optique de problématisation des pratiques sociales et littéraires qui lui sont attachées. Plus qu’une simple représentation, le corps devient un travestissement esthétique par lequel les deux romancières contournent la censure pour aborder tous les tabous de leurs sociétés. Ainsi l’espace dudit corps réunit des discours de subversion et de renversement, mais aussi de négociation et d’autocensure. D’autre part le corps sujet d’écriture porte en lui un déchirement, un morcellement et une souffrance et ne semble se concevoir et se vivre que dans la douleur et dans la difficulté d’être. Ce corps textuel sentant et souffrant exprime un rapport au monde et aux autres et s’inscrit dans une quête de confirmation de soi
The goal of this thesis is the study of way tow African novelists describe the body ; Ahlam Mosteghanemi from Algéria and Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon. Our analisis traces the writings about the body to a symbolic structure where social discourses meet literary practices. The writings about the body, male or female, are studied from a perspective locked in the problematics of social and literary practices. More than a simple description, the body becomes an esthetic disguise through which the two novelists bypass censorship to tackle all their cultural taboos. Thus the sphere of the body combines discourses of subversion and reversal as well as negotiation and self censorship. What’s more, the body subject of literature bears in itself a tearing, a division and a suffering and seems to only understand and live its existence in pain and difficulty. This literal body that feels and suffers expresses a relationship to the world and to others and is part of a quest for self-affirmation

碩士
淡江大學
中國文學系
87
Abstract: Texts that describe sexual desire and female bodies are termed erotic writing in this thesis. The erotic writing characterize Lio-yeng''s poems. It not only made his poems popular among the common people but also criticized by the intellectuals. Traditionally critics divided the erotic writing into two contrast critical concepts :Feng-sao(風騷)and Yen-chin(豔情).Pure erotic writing is Yen-chin. Feng-sao contains allegorical and metaphorical implication beneath the amorous writing. The above approach, upholding Feng-sao and, by contrast, establishing Yen-chin, cannot appropriately explain the ideology of texts, because the political meanings in Feng-sao are too limited to express eroticism in the intellectuals'' political career. Some unique amorous writing in Lio''s poems, such as the description of the dissipated chase after women, women''s sentiments, and the blatant writing of sexual pleasure received traditionally only morally superficial comment or reproachment. But the advanced study of the dissipation reveals that the erotic pleasure is the regular rewards bestowed to the intellectuals from the rulers. Since the Civil Service Examination System in the Tang Dynesty, the banquet in the palace or the dissipation in the capital city are ways to enjoy sex and to proclaim the intellectuals'' status. Analyzing description of scenes and identities in Lio''s poem tells us that the clamorous dissipation reflects Lio''s imagination and anticipation of officials'' enjoyable lives. The pleasure in the capital city provided young intellectuals'' with cheap erotic pleasure, which implied Lio''s dissipated mentality to enjoy pleasure in advance. Traditional exilian poems show Chinese intellectuals'' unpleasant experience of floating away from the political center. But Lios'' poems present another problem of the experience: being away from the prosperous capital as well as being deprived of the sexual pleasure, which shows the political implication of the dissipation. That is, dissipation is meaningful only in some political atmosphere. Though Lios'' exilian poems are elegant, the complicated ideologies in the poems are worthy of further study. Above all, Lio changed the traditional writing style of exilian poems, transforming the lonely on foreign land into a woman''s bedroom in the recess. Thus Lio became a womenized and destressed intellectuals, which characterized Lio''s erotic writing As far as gender is concerned, Lio regarded women''s bodies as objects separated from subjective consciousness, and made them parts of the erotic sciences in prosperous cities. The relation between the two genders is that men are the one who gases, a subject waiting to be pleased; while women, on the one hand, have to delay and then satisfy intellectuals'' desire, and on the other hand admire their talent, becoming their subordinates. This erotic writing reveals the prostitute image in the patriarchy. The traditional interpretation of Feng-Sao doesn''t apply to Lio''s poems. On the contrary, it may cause misunderstanding, and cannot clarify the complicated relation between politics and eroticism. By studying Lio''s poems from the viewpoints of dissipation and gender, taking erotic writing into account, and analyzing his intention, this thesis is aimed at a more definite explanation of what is traditionally termed "eroticism and extravagance" in Lio''s poems.

碩士
東海大學
中國文學系
104
In this thesis, I would like to discuss the two writers: Yu Dafu in 1920’s and Shi Zhecun in 1930’s. The two writers dedicated to the erotic writings in the modern Chinese fiction. Yu Dafu was an able writer whose first novel was published in 1921, which was the earliest fiction in Chinese modern literary. In his fiction, the bold and naked writing ways shocked the literary world at that moment. Shi Zhecun, in the other hand, was the mature writer by using psychoanalytic theory into the fiction-writing. In his fiction, he showed the disorder, chaos and imagination of the human mind, laying the foundation for the development of the psychological novel. In this thesis, I use the Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, the sexual psychology of Havelock Ellis, also based on Georges Bataille’s seriousness attitude toward “erotic” for research methods. Firstly, this thesis discussed the construction of gender images, how the men construct and deconstruct themselves and how they construct women. Furthermore, discussed the erotic behavior in the fiction, and figured out the function and the significance in the writing. Finally, discussed the two people with different writing strategy of “erotic writing”, also explored its significance and aesthetic values. In this thesis, I expected to find a proper place for “erotic writing” in the modern Chinese fiction, also, related the different literary systems from 1920 to 1930’s.

碩士
國立雲林科技大學
漢學資料整理研究所碩士班
95
In modern Chinese literature history, Shen Congwen is considered a writer of native literature, because his novels about Xiang Xi are usually touching deeply and famous. Most researchers stress on Seng Congwen’s native consciousness and the formulation of his ideal country. However, the erotic writing in his novels are not only researched rarely, but also. According to this situation, these points about erotic writing are discussible. First, why Seng Congwen want to use erotic writing? Second, how he present the eros of his novels? Third, what message he want to communicate with readers? Based on these points, there are these purposes of this thesis. First of all, this thesis will discuss Seng Congwen’s life and background and the connections with erotic writing. Secondly, this thesis will discuss the cultural differences and the effect on erotic writing. Finally, I will discuss the theme and the way of erotic writing in Seng Congwen’s novels and also discuss the influences and importance. Accordingly, this thesis is divided into six chapters, the first one is an introduction and the last one is the conclusion. Other chapters are the main parts of this thesis, the second chapter will deal with Seng Congwen’s life and background, and discuss the relationship of his erotic theme. The third chapter will discuss how Seng Congwen use erotic writing to deal with cultural difference. And the fourth and fifth chapters that dividedly discuss the style and theme of the erotic writing in his novels, also explore the influences and value.

碩士
國立中興大學
台灣文學與跨國文化研究所
101
Abstract After the 90’s, the homosexual movements were flourishing and the issues of homosexuality were discussed in many literary works. Writers and scholars made great effort to criticize the heterosexual paternity and let people respect different cultures. Chen Hsueh, combining her own personal experience with her literary creation, wrote a series of novels about lesbian desire, such as Evil Herstories and The Butterfly, which attempt to represent how traditional society treats homosexual and to gets rid of the constraints of the social value. In Chen Hsueh’s novels, the blurred-boundaries issues of moral principles are the author’s main concern. In the preface of her novel Evil Herstories, she explains that she describes those mental and physical border-crossers because she wants to write out more stories about people’s internal world. In order to make a study of the writing skills and the way how Chen Hsueh expresses the lesbian’s desire in her writings, I will discuss how Chen Hsueh represents the world of lesbians by describing dream and fairy tales while characters are under the pressure of society. Moreover, through these special descriptions, narrator’s interior wound and desire to his/her family can be understood. By describing what narrators suffer, the author heals her interior wound and gets back her true self. Finally, Chen Hsueh’s novels also deal with the issue of incest, a kind of forbidden love, and explore human’s most primitive desire through the depiction of the erotic flow between narrator and his/her family. When the love between parents and children transforms into that of lesbians, the narrator needs to struggle from the traditional value. This thesis discusses Evil Herstories and The Butterfly and focuses on the representation of metaphors. As a homosexual writer, Chen Hsueh combines many different issues such as forbidden love and unspeakable identities in her books. With the style of depicting both real and fictional worlds, she tries to build a lesbian world which is lonely, free, and desirable. I hope that this research can provide the public an alternative view of homosexuality.

碩士
淡江大學
中國文學系碩士班
97
In the past two decades since the 1990s, gay novels and queer novels in Taiwan have drawn much attention of critics. It is about time to take a look at the texts of gay and queer novels which were written within these fifty years and to re-examine the recent studies in light of their concerns and their dilemmas. As a departure from the previous researches, the present study seeks to take these issues into consideration and reflect on them. In my reading of a wide variety of the gay and the queer novels, I find that the gay novels deal with not only the homosexual love and crises in the hero’s life, but also erotic affections among the same sex and the different sex and the third sex. Likewise, the queer novels tinged with the fluid erotism abound in homosexual affections; the gay novels subsume certain elements of the queer novels, along with the homosexual love. That is to say, certain blurred space between the gay novels and the queer novels exists. This study is an attempt to deal with the ambiguous, vague space between the gay novels and queer novels from the perspective of “erotic writing” so as to reconsider their oppositions and to clarify them. After casting some light on the ambiguity of the two, I hope to make this point clear that the links between gay and heterosexual people are evident.

碩士
淡江大學
中國文學系碩士班
98
Among the homosexual passion in Chinese history, the male homosexuality in Ming and Chin Dynasty receives great attention of later generations. Affected by some complicated factors, such as time and the atmosphere, the male homosexuality had a great vogue, which is reflected in commercial publications. Because of this, the study of the development and situation of the male homosexuality in late Ming Dynasty can be offered more advantageous and complete research resources. Thus, this thesis will view these three novels, “Long Yang Yi Shi”, “Bian Er Chai”, and “Yi Chun Xiang Zhi”, which focus on describing the male homosexuality, as the main research materials. Furthermore, the erotic writing in these novels will be analyzed in this thesis and the erotic phenomenon of male homosexuality novels is expected to be analyzed and presented as well. By discussing the phenomenon existing in the novel, this thesis hopes to find out the power mechanism of the passion of male homosexuality and further to interpret the meaning of the publication of the male homosexuality novels and its position and value. This thesis is divided into five chapters, as follows. Chapter One is Introduction, which states and discusses the motivation and objective of this thesis, the range of the study, and the results of previous studies. Moreover, the terms used in this thesis will be defined in this chapter. Chapter Two focuses on the Erotic Pattern of Male Homosexuality. According to the erotic phenomenon in “Long Yang Yi Shi”, “Bian Er Chai”, and “Yi Chun Xiang Zhi”, Chapter Two aims to analyze the erotic pattern which both sides of male homosexuality establish. At the same time, this chapter analyzes and presents the progress of the erotic pattern in novels, the similarities and differences on structures of erotic pattern, and the main idea and attitude that the author shows on the plot arrangement. Chapter Three, the Gender Cognition in Erotic Writing, focuses on discussing the tendency of sex cognition which is presented from the behaviors between the voluntary one and the forced one in the passion pattern of male homosexuality. This chapter not only sums up the gender position in the relationships of male homosexuality, but further reveals the author’s writing awareness. Chapter Four, the Power Mechanism in Erotic Writing, discusses the power mechanism in the relationship of male homosexuality from the two points of view, that is, the hierarchy structure and the power operation, and the male gaze and the domination of gender. What’s more, this chapter will conclude the connection between the operation of power structure and the phenomenon of society, culture, and economy. Then, this chapter discusses the reason why the passion mechanism of male homosexuality would develop. Chapter Five is Conclusion, which puts the erotic writing about the male homosexuality in order. This chapter further inspects the interior aspects and then concludes the power operation in the erotic relationship and the mechanism of erotic writing on the male homosexuality. Besides, the meaning of the publication of the male homosexuality novels will be interpreted in this chapter and their positions and value in erotic novels will be presented as well.

碩士
國立臺東大學
進修部兒文所碩士班(台北夜間)
105
Robert Cormier is usually lauded as one of the most influential writers in American literature. His lucid style is particularly masterful to depict life reality by revealing contemporary social issues, human desire and violence. By portraying the character of ordinary people, Cormier exhibits what’s common to us as human. The study takes Cormier’s novel Fade as an example for interpretation. It is an unconventional and subversive step to approach children’s literature, which usually promotes positive values as mode, to proclaim how erotic writing in young adult fiction can be legitimate. Beginning from Plato’s Symposium, the study examines some classic works of Goethe, Defoe, Kierkegaard, Stendhal, Tugnev and, more recently, Marques to echo Cormier’s Fade which deal with romantic fantasy and somewhat incestuous love of adolescents. And how the hero sees and gazes his beloved elder using his inherited invisible capacity. The analysis is mostly relied on the researcher’s intensive reading of the text using perspectives of Stendhal, Freud, Simmel and others.

碩士
國立臺南大學
國語文學系國語文教學碩士班
93
《Island of Silence》by Wei-Zhen, Su and 《Notes of A Desolate Man》by Tien-Wen,Chu won the recommendation award by jury and the first award of China Times Literature Million Novel Award,respectively in 1994.These two outstanding contemporary Taiwan novelists have experienced young and obscure period of feminine writers.Both of their childhood and personality were formed in the military dependant’s village,the living pulse of bamboo fence seem to merge into the pulse of their blood,and convert to the desolate of leaving hometown under their pens Both of them took Ai-Ling,Chang as their example,and have been considered as the successors of Chang sect.The phantom island of Wei-Zhen,Su and the Chang tone and Hu accent of Tien-Wen,Chu even became the work to fulfill her promise to her teacher Lan-Cheng,Hu. Wei-Zhen.Su’s 《Island of Silence》subverted the pure and resolute image of woman in her former novels,a great deal of sexual passion scenes presented a lote of cater to patriarch,but also attempted to resist it at the same time. 《Island of Silence》is disunited and conflicted,and presented the writing attitude of anti-sexual passion.As for Tien-Wen,Chu’s《Notes of A Desolate Man》,it presented the licentious scenes of indulge in carnal pleasure without restraint among homosexuals;however,their sex was desolate and almost no pleasure;their living situation was just like ghosts that fall into hell,and their identification process was painful and full of difficulty. In fact,both of them devoted to create the Utopia for women through hermaphroditism and female writing.The writing of sexual passion in 《Island of Silence》 and 《Notes of A Desolate Man》reflected remotely with femail writing concept of French feminist Cixious,their concept of bisexuality,body writing,concern of other,experience of disperse and exile,floating and changing style of writing,and the practice of writing were almost closely hooked up with the spirit of female writing ,and also attempted to overthrow the hegemony of Patriarchy. In addition to the attempt of establishing a utopia of woman,another utopia was the military dependant’s village,which was highly concerned in their mind but almost moved toward it’s end in the real life.These two female writers with the province and county of their family register in china wrapped the subject of nationality and military dependant’s village in layers of sexual passion,presented the plentiful aspect of the ingenious coexistence of sexual passion and military dependant’s village,and established an erotic utopia.As the most important middle aged contemporary female writers in Taiwan,they expressed the gloom in their mind through these two long novels of sexual passion with the vagrant mood that rooted in their hearts.The solitary island depicted dy Wei-Zhen,Su thus became the symbal of the isolated military dependant’s village,and the unbearable bad experience of the desolate man under Tien-Wen,Chu’s pen was exactly the reflection of people came from provinces in china in destitution.They sighed for the destiny of gay and military dependant’s village in a troubled times was as cruel as an isolated island,and became the peak of poetic perfection in Taiwan novel in the end of the century.

碩士
輔仁大學
大眾傳播學研究所
96
This thesis aims to deal with sexual writings in the films of Cathrine Breillat. Her film is always interested in female sexuality that is different from the pornographic spectacle in the mainstream cinema. It attempts to analyze two of Breillat’s films both À ma soeur！（2001） and Antomie de l'enfer（2004）, and explores erotic images in these films based on Narratology, film aesthetics, Psychoanalysis and Feminism. In discussing sexual writings this thesis is with three dimensions including narrative form and aesthetic style, the diverse female sexuality, and the dialectical relationship between sex and death. It argues that the mainstream cinema usually regards female as the sexual object, and even distorts and represses the existence of female sexuality, therefore, concludes it with the assumption: “The female has no sexual desire.”. Nevertheless, this thesis finds out that Breillat’s films uncover the tricks in the mainstream cinema. Meanwhile, female sexuality in her films reveals the castration anxiety in patriarchy. Finally, through the discussions by crossing the boundary, it examines female sexuality in Chinese-language films with these conclusions in order to know how Breillat’s films inspire the former.