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    The Guillotine, and how its use by Henry VIII saved Napoleon from the Glorious Revolution of Richard the Lionhearted


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    the reverse gentrification of literature and it's negative social repercussions

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    • potatoes as aphrodisiacs in 16th century english literature
    • oedipus rex as the archetype of the "motherfucker"
    • jane austen and boredom among 18 to 35 year old males: "why the fuck is half of the goddamn book people just sitting around and talking?"
    • exalting objectophilia: sex with inanimate objects in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and elsewhere
    • 19th and early 20th century literary references to peas
    • 1001 poetic descriptions of bewbs


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    looking for more 21st century topics excluding twilight saga, harry potter or anything else shit
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    you gave me the herp on purpose

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    picky, picky....

    • pie eaters: cunnilingus and gender dynamics in contemporary writing
    • into the bush: notable reference and lack of reference to pubic hairs in contemporary literature
    • the correlation or lack of correlation between obesity in the general population and characters' weight
    • contemporary literary references to peas
    • contemporary literary references to pee


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    Deconstruction and it's discontents: Derrida, Rushdie and Gramsci and the need for a return to Freud.

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    Ooh you, I have a module in Derridian Deconstruction next year
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    The Pregnant Widow: The unraveling of modernity in the work of Martin Amis

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    Sexual Immorality? Latent feminism in the work of Nabokov

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    T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" and its subtextual Heideggerian ontology

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    The Impotent Rage of Postmodernity; E.M Forster in conversation with Nietzsche

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    Quote Originally Posted by Think View Post
    Deconstruction and it's discontents: Derrida, Rushdie and Gramsci and the need for a return to Freud.
    Speaking of discontented people of South Asian ethnic origin...

    Also, how exactly does a crazy incoherent Algerian French philosopher, an Indian author with a fatwa on his head, and some guy I've never heard of... an particularly ugly-looking Italian philosopher-author apparently?... point to a need to return to the semi-wacky theories of Freud?

    Actually, please don't answer that, as I'm afraid you're going to subvert me with the structure of your reply or whatever.


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    Never mind guys ive got an awesome title. im not going to give it away but involves ricky gervais, frueds model of the psyche and white-van men
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    Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
    Speaking of discontented people of South Asian ethnic origin...

    Also, how exactly does a crazy incoherent Algerian French philosopher, an Indian author with a fatwa on his head, and some guy I've never heard of... an particularly ugly-looking Italian philosopher-author apparently?... point to a need to return to the semi-wacky theories of Freud?

    Actually, please don't answer that, as I'm afraid you're going to subvert me with the structure of your reply or whatever.
    I'm sure that I could write all of those essays with at least a degree of success, but the titles were intended to be (at least superficially, on face-value if you will) mildly preposterous. Amis is if anything the champion of modernity, Nabokov's most famous character was the objectified sexual object, the "nymphet" Lolita, T.H. White's Arthurian legends with their sense of destiny and belonging couldn't be further from Heideggerian thrown-in-ness etc. etc.
    Admittedly in those the humor was more clearly drawn from ridiculous pairings, whilst in the first you picked out it was more just a collection of incommensurable names.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Think View Post
    I'm sure that I could write all of those essays with at least a degree of success, but the titles were intended to be (at least superficially, on face-value if you will) mildly preposterous. Amis is if anything the champion of modernity, Nabokov's most famous character was the objectified sexual object, the "nymphet" Lolita, T.H. White's Arthurian legends with their sense of destiny and belonging couldn't be further from Heideggerian thrown-in-ness etc. etc.
    Admittedly in those the humor was more clearly drawn from ridiculous pairings, whilst in the first you picked out it was more just a collection of incommensurable names.
    By which I mean the Derridean deconstruction of Indian identity begun by Rushdie in Midnight's Children and continuing into The Satanic Verses exaggerates the cultural tropes of his identity in order to find their foundational negations, however, the lack of the authentically new finally prevents him from completing his dissolution, and his exaggerations finally re-emerge as a new assertion of the identity he seeks to overcome. In his struggle for Gramscian hegemony, he converts the cultural currencies of the Islamic, Hindu and British identities into a key of fantasy and plays them against each other in order to desacrilise and demythologise their content; however, he cannot ultimately abandon them, as his method does not allow him to escape the horizon of their meaning. In order to find a new object of universality, the author argues, Rushdie should examine the role of death drive in Freudian theory, repeating the constellation of his cultural commitments until his conditions of identity are so fully internalised that they express not an impersonal historical force but a psychological economy from which the authentically new may emerge.

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    Wow.

    That was such a big stream of BS that if I were into scat I'd be in heaven right now.

    Warm, stinky heaven.

    And why do I feel like deconstructionist writings are more subversive than the texts they are attempting to deconstruct?


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