Product Description: NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value–this format costs significantly less than a new textbook...read more

Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss.In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. She considers pop cultural phenomena and the rise of celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Gypsy Rose Lee against contemporary sociological, scientific, and philosophical writings on leisure and desire. Throughout her study, Frost incorporates recent scholarship on material and visual culture and vernacular modernism, recasting the period's high/low, elite/popular divides and formal strategies as efforts to regulate sensual and cerebral experience. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture.

Product Description: Johanna Schopenhauer (1776-1838) - Autorin, Salonière und Mutter des berühmten Philosophen Arthur Schopenhauer - gehört zu den interessantesten Frauenfiguren der deutschen Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte. Die Freundin Goethes veröffentlichte Romane, Novellen, Reiseberichte und biografische Texte und gründete in Weimar ihren eigenen Literatursalon...read more

Product Description: Nachdruck der von Laura Frost verfassten ausführlichen Biografie über Johanna Schopenhauer aus dem Jahre 1913. "Ich meine, dass Johanna Schopenhauer als die Mutter des Philosophen und die Freundin Goethes, als eine bemerkenswerte Erscheinung ihrer Zeit und ein eigenartiger, stark ausgeprägter Charakter nicht nur für alle Freunde der Literatur und Philosophie, sondern auch für die große Allgemeinheit von starkem Interesse sein muss...read more

Product Description: A Haunted Past—A Beautiful Future is a book of poems for anyone who’s faced all odds, had no trust, and lost all hope. In this poetry, a woman faces her demons and learns there is more than horror in life. She faces three miracles and then finds out she’s a miracle herself...read more

Product Description: Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)