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Impotence and making in Samuel Beckett's trilogy Molloy, Malone dies and The unnamable and How it is
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ISBN: 9789042029736 9789042029743 9042029730 9042029749 1282556401 9786612556401 9781282556409 6612556404 Year: 2010 Volume: 344 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett’s prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of ‘impotence’ and ‘making’ by showing Beckett’s quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators’ images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators’ images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett’s narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.

Paralysin cave : impotence, perception, and text in the Satyrica of Petronius
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ISBN: 9004108254 9004330968 9789004108257 9789004330962 Year: 1998 Volume: 176 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : Brill,

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This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.

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Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Sexology --- Petronius Arbiter, Caius Titus --- Satire, Latin --- Masculinity in literature --- Human body in literature --- Impotence in literature --- Men in literature --- Sex in literature --- Satire latine --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Impuissance sexuelle dans la littérature --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Petronius Arbiter. --- Petronius Arbiter --- Rome --- In literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- -Sex in literature --- Latin satire --- Latin wit and humor --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Petron --- Pétrone, T. --- Petronio --- Petronio Arbitro --- Petronio, Caio --- Petronio, Cayo --- Petronius --- Petronius Arbiter, --- Petronius Arbiter, Titus --- Petronius, Gaius --- Petronius, Titus --- In literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Impotence in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Impuissance sexuelle dans la littérature --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Maderna, Bruno. --- Literature. --- Satire, Latin. --- Men as literary characters --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Satyricon (Petronius Arbiter) --- Saturae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satira (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satiricon (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satyrica (Petronius Arbiter) --- Begebenheiten des Enkolp (Petronius Arbiter) --- Petronii Arbitri Satyricon reliquiae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Satyricon reliquiae (Petronius Arbiter) --- Rome (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Satire, Latin - History and criticism --- Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon --- Rome - In literature

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