lust

Literature and sex

Feb 10, 2021

procreation, lust, propagation

Literature and Sex # The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has gripped the Western imagination for nearly thirty centuries, from the Homeric epics to twentieth-century cinema and theater. Our cultural obsession with these characters raises a compelling question: Why have male authors focused so consistently on the representation of suffering females—often for the benefit of male audiences? Daniel Mendelsohn The sexual instinct is an intregal part of nature and being human. ...

Virginia Woolf

Feb 10, 2021

feminism, literature, lust

Virginia Woolf # Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941 Virginia Woolf was born Virginia Stephen in 1882 into a prominent and intellectually well-connected family. Her formal education was limited, but she grew up reading voraciously from the vast library of her father, the critic Leslie Stephen. Her youth was a traumatic one, including the early deaths of her mother and brother, a history of sexual abuse, and the beginnings of a depressive mental illness that plagued her intermittently throughout her life and eventually led to her suicide in 1941. ...