Marquis de Sade


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Noun1.Marquis de Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
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| NATIONAL DAY OF ITALY | 1740: The Marquis de Sade, French aristocrat whose lifestyle gave rise to the word sadism, was born in Paris.
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Contributed by scholars working in a variety of fields in the US and Europe, the eight essays in this volume explore erotic experiences in terms of space, texts, and visuals, including erotic places and cultures like the Pacific islands in the 19th century, eroticized combat in the Trojan War myth, eroticized performance in ballroom and Latin American dance, feminist pleasure in Fifty Shades of Grey, the role of disgust and hygiene strategies in Fifty Shades of Grey and the writings of the Marquis de Sade, sexual pursuits in the virtual domain by Chinese gay men, queer pleasure in the films Cruising and Interior.Leather Bar, and erotic experiences with dolls and robots.
ON THIS DAY NATIONAL DAY OF ITALY 1740: The Marquis de Sade, French aristocrat whose lifestyle gave rise to the word sadism, was born in Paris.
After its run at the Leventis Gallery in Nicosia, the play Quills will take the Limassol audience into the world of the Marquis de Sade on Wednesday.
Orloff, Venus in Furs, Marquis de Sade's Justine, Revenge in the House of Usher and many others.
Readers will be introduced to an irrepressible young woman named Zora Korteniemi, who combines traits of Pollyanna with those of the Marquis de Sade. "Zora: A Cruel Tale" is set in the fictional state of Karelia, on the murky border between Finland and Russia in the days of horseback and hearth fires.
Libertines like Casanova and the Marquis de Sade bragged openly and proudly of their sexual exploits, many of which involved the degradation and abuse of children.
He interprets the overtures from the three operas in terms of the Anglo/Scottish-French Enlightenment, presents the case for a masculine sub-style, considers the contradiction between women's absence from Enlightenment discourse and musical foregrounding in the operas, analyzes musical seduction in terms of emerging idealist theories of music, and addresses all seven finales with comparisons between Immanuel Kant's ethics and those of Marquis de Sade. A conclusion considers how the operas frame their own ideological and fictive futures.