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Lacan and Art/Artists

Are there any monographs from a Lacanian perspective that look at art and artistic creation? I'm interested in either, so any recommendations are welcome

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u/cinnamon_rugelach — 4 days ago

Follow up to Is It Ever Just Sex?

I recently read Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader and really enjoyed it, but I found it kind of surface level and disorganized. I'm wondering if there are any good books as a follow up, preferably something Lacanian? I'm particularly interested in some of the stuff in the beginning of the book—the relation of sex to transgression, guilt/shame, etc.

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u/cinnamon_rugelach — 18 days ago
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What to read after Is It Ever Just Sex?

I recently read Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader and really enjoyed it, but I found it kind of surface level and disorganized. I'm wondering if there are any good books as a follow up? I'm particularly interested in some of the stuff in the beginning of the book—the relation of sex to transgression, guilt/shame, etc.

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u/cinnamon_rugelach — 18 days ago

History of early 20th century avant-garde literature

I'm interested in the history of experimental literature around the turn of the 20th century. Movements like modernism, surrealism, symbolism, decadence, etc. I'm wondering if there's a good monograph that gives a historical overview of avant-garde literature around this time period? I know there are works covering individual movements—e.g. Kenner's Pound Era—but I'm hoping for something less granular and more broad stroke

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u/cinnamon_rugelach — 3 months ago

An abbreviated "Western Canon" syllabus

I've read mostly 20th century literature and am primarily interested in novels. I want to give myself a more rounded background in literature before the 20th century to get a better sense of the different threads of influence that run towards the 20th century. To achieve this, I've attempted to make a short syllabus of texts, something that could reasonably be tackled in a year or two. I understand how fraught the idea of a "Western canon" is and I've only assembled a list of texts that I've seen repeatedly mentioned in my readings, running up to the 19th century, which I intend to make a separate list for. Is there anything major that I'm missing? Anything that I should skip?

Antiquity

  • Homer
    • The Illiad
    • The Odyssey
  • Tragedy
    • The Greek Plays: by Mary Lefkowitz
  • Virgil
    • The Aeneid

Middle Ages

  • Beowulf

Renaissance and Early Modern

14th Century

  • Dante
    • The Divine Comedy (1321)

15th Century

  • Chaucer
    • The Canterbury Tales (1400)

16th Century

  • François Rabelais
    • Gargantua and Pantagruel (1540)
  • Marlowe
    • Doctor Faustus (1594)

17th Century

  • Shakespeare
    • Tragedies
      • Hamlet
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Titus Andronicus
    • Comedies
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • The Tempest
    • Histories
      • Henry IV
      • Henry V
      • Richard III
  • Cervantes
    • Don Quixote (1605)
  • Milton
    • Paradise Lost (1667)

18th Century

  • Goethe
    • The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
    • Faust (1790)
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u/cinnamon_rugelach — 3 months ago