Showing papers on "Lust published in 2010"

Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction: Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality 1 Fanon's Muscles: (Black) Power Revisited2 "A Race That Could Be So Dealt With": Terror, Time, and (Black) Power3 Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject Notes on Black (Power) Bottoms 4 The Occupied Territory: Homosexuality and History in Amiri Baraka's Black Arts 5 Porn and the N-Word: Lust, Samuel Delany's The Mad Man, and a Derangement of Body and Sense(s) Conclusion: Extravagant Abjection NotesIndex About the Author

Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims

Abstract: Homosexuality is anathema to Islam - or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose. Throughout the Muslim world, it is met with hostility, where state punishments range from hefty fines to the death penalty. Likewise, numerous scholars and commentators maintain that the Qur'an and Hadith rule unambiguously against same-sex relations. This pioneering study argues that there is far more nuance to the matter than most believe. In its narrative of Lot, the Qur'an could be interpreted as condemning lust rather homosexuality. While some Hadith are fiercely critical of homosexuality, some are far more equivocal. This is the first book length treatment to offer a detailed analysis of how Islamic scripture, jurisprudence, and Hadith, can not only accommodate a sexually sensitive Islam, but actively endorse it.

A Hedonic Analysis of the Impact of LUST Sites on House Prices in Frederick, Baltimore, and Baltimore City Counties

Abstract: Petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks (LUSTs) can contaminate local soil, and surface and groundwater. In some cases this can pose health risks to the surrounding population. Focusing on single family home sales from 1996-2007 in three Maryland counties, we use a hedonic house price model to estimate the willingness to pay to live father away from LUST sites. Particular attention is given to how property values are affected by leak and cleanup activity at a LUST site, the severity of contamination, the presence of a primary exposure path (i.e., private groundwater wells), and publicity surrounding a LUST site. The results suggest that although the typical LUST site may not significantly affect nearby property values, more publicized (and more contaminated sites) can impact surrounding home values by more than 10%.

An African view of women as sexual objects as a concern for gender equality: A critical study

Abstract: South African society consists of people who value honour, respect and dignity. One of the most worrying factors in our democratic country is the escalation of sex-related violations like rape, sexual harassment and sexual abuse. According to media reports, the rape and abuse of women are daily occurrences. Statistics also suggest that most marriages will at some point need to resolve the emotional trauma resulting from an extra-marital affair. It is imperative that whilst the police are trying to get the culprits into custody, we as a society should help to find out what has gone so wrong that the beautiful gift of a sexual relationship is being abused and degraded by the people. This delicate issue may be an indication of the influence of patriarchal systems in some African cultures. Rape statistics reveal that most of the perpetrators are well-known members of a community. There are many possible reasons why our society is facing this challenge; however, this study will explore the view that women are considered as sexual objects and how this perspective reveals itself as the cause of sexual offences.

Tragic Passion, Romantic Eloquence, and Betrayal in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms

Abstract: This paper investigates the themes of tragic eroticism, romantic eloquence and betrayal in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms. The paper is an in-depth analysis of the monumental tragic consequences of the incest passion that flares between a coquettish, seductive woman and her stepson, and the romantic rhetoric both use while entrapped in their sexual ecstasy. The paper traces the moves and breaths of the two infatuated lovers before, while and after they commit the sin of incest, and attempts to measure their romantic rhetoric against such incestuous lust. The two lovers’ incest takes place in an ominous house teeming with family tensions, intense lust, hatred, and betrayal. Keywords: Desire Under the Elms; Eugene O’Neill; passion; eroticism; rhetoric; eloquence; incest; betrayal

Tang Wei Sex, the City and the Scapegoat in Lust, Caution

Abstract: This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a national traitor as a heroine, caused deep concern among some parties involved in film regulation and censorship. The argument presented here is that Tang Wei, who was singled out for criticism and upon whom travel and work restraints were placed in the aftermath of the film's release, was made a scapegoat for the disgust experienced by a masculinist political class when faced with female dissent and sexuality.

Enemy under My Skin: Eileen Chang’s Lust, Caution and the Politics of Transcendence

Abstract: Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy, particularly his notions of transcendence and the “face of the other,” illuminates Eileen Chang's short story Lust, Caution (Se, jie) and, to a lesser extent, Ang Lee's film adaptation. Lust, Caution tells of an assassination plot against a collaborator with the Japanese during the second Sino–Japanese War in which the heroine's fatal decision to let go of her enemy results in the deaths of herself and her comrades. The story problematizes the status of the personal and ethical in times of war, occupation, and resistance through the heroine's path from the collective anonymity of national salvation to the theatrical solitude of underground activism and the intersubjective encounter with the face of the other. Also relevant is Hannah Arendt's theory of the (bourgeois) social, which in conjunction with its feminist revision prompts reflections on women's space of action in “dark times.”

Teacher lust: reconstructing the construct for mathematics instruction

Abstract: Two collegiate mathematics courses for prospective elementary and middle grades teachers provide the context for the examination of Mary Boole’s construct of teacher lust. Through the use of classroom observations and instructor interviews, the author presents a refined conception of teacher lust. Two working aspects of the construct were identified: (1) enacted teacher lust; an observable action that may remove an opportunity for students to think about or engage in mathematics for themselves; and (2) experienced teacher lust; an internal impulse to act in the manner described. Empirical examples of each facet, differences between conscious and unconscious interactions with teacher lust, along with potential antecedents are discussed.

The evolved function of the oedipal conflict.

Abstract: Freud based his oedipal theory on three clinical observations of adult romantic relationships: (1) Adults tend to split love and lust; (2) There tend to be sex differences in the ways that men and women split love and lust; (3) Adult romantic relationships are unconsciously structured by the dynamics of love triangles in which dramas of seduction and betrayal unfold. Freud believed that these aspects of adult romantic relationships were derivative expressions of a childhood oedipal conflict that has been repressed. Recent research conducted by evolutionary psychologists supports many of Freud's original observations and suggests that Freud's oedipal conflict may have evolved as a sexually selected adaptation for reproductive advantage. The evolution of bi-parental care based on sexually exclusive romantic bonds made humans vulnerable to the costs of sexual infidelity, a situation of danger that seriously threatens monogamous bonds. A childhood oedipal conflict enables humans to better adapt to this longstanding evolutionary problem by providing the child with an opportunity to develop working models of love triangles. On the one hand, the oedipal conflict facilitates monogamous resolutions by creating intense anxiety about the dangers of sexual infidelity and mate poaching. On the other hand, the oedipal conflict in humans may facilitate successful cheating and mate poaching by cultivating a talent for hiding our true sexual intentions from others and even from ourselves. The oedipal conflict in humans may be disguised by evolutionary design in order to facilitate tactical deception in adult romantic relationships.

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry

Abstract: 1. Shakespeare and English poetry 2. Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis' 3. 'My tongue shall utter all': constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece' 4. Mysteries of the Sonnets 5. 'All in war with time': progeny, poetry, and entropy in the Sonnets 6. Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets 7. Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle' 8. Passionate pilgrims: fantasies of Shakespearean authorship Further reading.

Female Leadership: Management, Jungian Psychology, Spirituality and the Global Journey Through Purgatory

Abstract: Stein, Foreword. Introduction. The Divine Comedy. Pride and Humility. Envy and Generosity. Anger and Gentleness. Sloth and Zeal. Greed and Charity. Gluttony and Temperance. Lust and Chastity. Female Leadership: The Way Forward.

Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Abstract: Part One Isaiah in the Context of Hebrew and Ancient Near Eastern Writings 'As Straw is Trodden Down in the Water of a Dung-Pit'. Remarks on a Simile in Isaiah 25:10 Bob Becking Isaiah in the Book of Chronicles Pancratius C. Beentjes Woe to the Powers that Vie to Replace YHWH's Rule on Mount Zion! Isaiah chapters 28-39 from the perspective of Isaiah chapters 24-27 Willem A.M. Beuken The Gods Must Die: A Theme in Isaiah and Beyond Robert P. Gordon So-Called po'el-Forms in Isaiah and Elsewhere Holger Gzella A Window on the Isaiah Tradition in the Assyrian Period. Isaiah 10:24-27 Matthijs J. de Jong On the Identity of the Anonymous Ruler in Isaiah 14:4b-21 Percy van Keulen Yhwh seba'ot dans Isaie a la lumiere de l'epigraphie hebraique et arameenne Andre Lemaire The Titels and in Proto-Isaiah and a Comparison with Ezekiel Johan Lust 'Ruins' in Text and Archaeology. Note on the Wording of 'Destruction' in Later Prophets Karel Vriezen Patterns of Mutual Influence in the Textual Transmission of Oracles Concerning Foreign Nations in Isaiah and Jeremiah Richard D. Weis Isaiah 30:1 Hugh Williamson Part Two Isaiah in the Context of Septuagint, Peshitta, and Modern Interpretations The Relationship between the Septuagint Versions of Isaiah and Proverbs Johann Cook An Exploration of Wisdom of Solomon as the Missing Link between Isaiah and Matthew Kristin De Troyer L'independance du traducteur grec d'Isaie par rapport au Dodekapropheton Cecile Dogniez Is There an Antiochene Reading of Isaiah? Natalio Fernandez Marcos Zwei Niederlander des 19. Jahrhunderts uber die Wahrheit von Jesajas Prophetien Cornelis Houtman Visions from Memphis and Leontopolis. The Pheno--menon of the Vision reports in the Greek Isaiah in the Light of Con--temporary accounts from Hellenistic Egypt Michael N. van der Meer Isaiah 2 in the Septuagint Takamitsu Muraoka The Text of Isaiah 26:9-19 in the Syriac Odes Wido van Peursen Of Translation and Revision: From Greek Isaiah to Greek Jeremiah Albert Pietersma Jacob of Edessa's Quotations and Revision of Isaiah Bas ter Haar Romeny Dans un vase pur ou avec des psaumes? Une variante textuelle peu etudiee en Isa 66:20 Adrian Schenker Personal Names in the Septuagint of Isaiah Emanuel Tov A Bibliography of Arie van der Kooij Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

The Chaste Erotics of Marie d'Oignies and Jacques de Vitry

Abstract: friends clasped her hand from an excess of spiritual affection because he was very close to her although in his chaste mind he thought no evil he felt the first masculine stirrings rising in him."1 Although the motive for taking her hand seems innocent enough, the moment his hand comes into contact with hers, he no longer sees the two of them as priest and holy woman, as confessor and penitent, but as man and woman, subject to lust and physical attraction. The chances are very good that the priest in the story is indeed the hagiographer, Jacques de Vitry (ca. 1160-1240). Throughout his vita of the late-twelfth, earlythirteenthcentury female mystic, he writes himself in a starring role, often referring to himself in the third person and vaguely as "a certain priest."2 The woman, Marie d'Oignies (d. 1213) of the Liege

Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play

Abstract: Shakespeare’s The Turning of the Shrew opens with what appears to be a straightforward condemnation of the vice of excessive alcohol consumption, as a lord, finding a drunken tinker passed out before an alehouse, exclaims in disgust: “O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!”1 The lord’s outrage is not surprising from the perspective of early modern moralist discourse, which, associating drunkenness with idleness and disorder, figures it as dehumanizing and, thus, emasculating. Thomas Young defines drunkenness as “a vice which stirreth up lust, griefe, anger, and madnesse, extinguisheth the memory, opinion, and understanding, maketh a man the picture of a beast, and twise a child, because he can neither stand nor speake.”2 Excessive consumption of alcohol compromises reason and bodily control, traits thought to distinguish men from beasts as well as from other ostensibly less rational creatures, such as children, women, and men of low status. Sir Walter Raleigh’s advice to his son triangulates drunkenness, beastliness, and emasculation when it warns that wine not only “transfer meth a man into a Beast” but also “wasteth the naturall heate and seed of generation.”3 For those who aspire to the kind of “patriarchal manhood” Raleigh espouses—where manhood is achieved through the demonstration of self-control, power over dependents, and ability to produce heirs, among other things—drunkenness is necessarily unmanly.4

We Will Make Your Head Explode

Abstract: We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left her behind. A teenager on the run finds' and loses' her first love. As desperately as they struggle to control their situations, their love lives, their families, and their emotions, they are often faced with simply having to come to terms with their realities. These eleven stories are intended to examine the ways people are capable of treating each other, both good and bad, and how people deal with the inevitably of being forced to move beyond what seems permanent, to create new identities, to laugh, and to learn from their mistakes.

The Discovery of Sodom, 1851

Abstract: The alleged discovery of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah by the French traveler Louis Feelicien de Saulcy in 1851 provided the occasion for a series of debates in Britain on the question of biblical authority that were also, for some audiences, about examining the crimes and sins of the Sodomites and defining them openly as homoerotic lust. In this way, and at this moment, questions of same-sex desire became an important accompaniment to pressing debates about faith.

Honor, Rhetoric and Factionalism in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians 1-4 in Its Social Context

Abstract: This essay suggests that the central element of the factionalism and strife evident in 1 Corinthians 1-4 is the lust for honor by members of the early Christ-movement at Corinth. While the last few decades have seen a proliferation of social-scientific approaches to biblical interpretation, many demonstrating the centrality of issues of honor and shame, the letter of 1 Corinthians has remained largely untouched by issues related to honor. Yet it presents a unique expose of numerous and vital aspects of social life in the Greco-Roman world. By analyzing the issues of factionalism and rhetoric within the social context of the time, and doing so within the framework of the central import of honor, it is hoped that the essay provides an appropriate and compelling framework within which to view this section of Paul’s letter.

“We have a name for something I’ve felt all my life” - Discovering and explaining asexuality

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate three aspects of asexuality. This was achieved through conducting six interviews with self identified asexuals, an observation on a meeting for asexuals, an analysis of what functions the two organisations for asexuals, Natverket Asexuell and AVEN have, and a content analysis concerning how people talk about a lack of sexual lust on the internet. The conclusions are that asexuality for my interviewees is about not wanting to have sex and not experience sexual lust. They had a number of medical explanations for their asexuality, even if they added that they were not sure why they were asexual. They had always, or for a very long time, known that they were different from others when it came to sexual lust, but when they found the term asexuality they found an explicit identity. The organisations Natverket Asexuell and AVEN, Asexuality Visibility and Education Network, two main functions is to be a political organ for making asexuality more known, and a place were asexuals can meet and exchange experiences and knowledge. This seem to have similarities with for instance lesbian and gay movements.

Love and Lust: A Phenomenological Investigation

Abstract: (2010). Love and Lust: A Phenomenological Investigation. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 41, Communicating Passions: Boredom, Love & Shame, pp. 8-32.

Positieve psychologie kan niet zonder negativiteit

Abstract: Positive psychology should embrace negative experiences Positive psychology will harm itself if it submits to the tyranny of positivity (Held, 2002), that is apparent in parts of the self-help literature and for some of its prominent members Negative emotions serve a critical function in our lives, and will enable us to stay focused on the parts of reality that are necessary for optimal functioning We need both reality and the lust principle

City of Sin: London and Its Vices

Abstract: If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17thand 18thcenturies, London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket, its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour. In her usual accessible and entertaining style, Arnold takes us on a journey through the fleshpots of London from earliest times to present day. Here are buxom strumpets, louche aristocrats, popinjay politicians and Victorian flagellants -- all vying for their place in London's league of licentiousness. From sexual exuberance to moral panic, the city has seen the pendulum swing from Puritanism to hedonism and back again. With later chapters looking at Victorian London and the sexual underground of the 20thcentury and beyond, this is a fascinating and vibrant chronicle of London at its most raw and ribald.

Corrupting Beauty: Rape Narrative in The Silmarillion

Abstract: THIS ESSAY EXPLORES THE USE OF RAPE NARRATIVE in The Silmarillion: with specific reference to the female characters Aredhel and Luthien, I analyze the range of literary techniques by which Tolkien simultaneously exploits yet constrains the power of rape (threatened or actual) as a narrative motor and dramatic spectacle. The reader's first reaction to my title might well be "What rape narrative?", such is the subtlety of Tolkien's representation and the cultural pervasiveness of rape in fiction. Indeed it is this ambiguity that I find fascinating because, through it, Tolkien can advance a plot around the notion of rape without actually representing the act itself. Several feminist critics (e.g. Horeck, Projansky) argue that it is difficult to represent rape in art without creating a vicarious pleasure in sexual violence; they argue that the purview of the reader/spectator itself objectifies and offers power, pleasure, and mastery in the narrative event. Avoidance of rape-representations does not necessarily resolve the problem, however, as refusal to represent the act can serve as titillation where the event is withheld so as to tantalize. Thus the writer of rape narrative must navigate a tricky course to ensure that the representation of rape (even as a structuring absence) is not a misogynist act. I believe that Tolkien, through utilization of a range of literary techniques that suggest an 'authenticity' and balance in narrative and that resist genre conventions, does successfully navigate this course, but that his positing of female beauty as the catalyst for violent seduction or unrestrained lust remains problematic other than as understood in mythic mode. Following Projansky's model, I use the term 'rape narrative' in its broadest sense of including "representations of rape, attempted rape, threats of rape, implied rape and [... ] coercive sexuality" (Projansky 18). A rape narrative need not therefore contain actual rape, but will have at least a threat or implication of coercive or non-consensual sex as a driving element. By using this wide definition, both the Eol/Aredhel narrative and the Curufin and Celegorm/Luthien narrative can be treated as rape narratives wherein the male succeeds in or attempts or desires sexual violation or violent seduction of a resistant female. In both these examples the women are considered beautiful, and it is this beauty that ignites the destructive male desire. As is the moot question in the legal definition of rape in any jurisdiction, much is at stake in our understanding of female non-consent and its mode of expression, and our inference of non-consent (unequivocally in the case of Luthien, but perhaps less so in the case of Aredhel) is important to the construction of 'good woman as victim' which serves as a springboard for themes of romance and heroism and suggests a greater archetypal or mythical reading of the rape tragedy. As is the case with both of Tolkien's examples discussed here, genre conventions relating to the representation of gender roles and attendant notions of beauty, innocence, and love shape our expectations of proper male/female relationships in the text, so as to normalize or naturalize the element of sexual violence: paradoxically it can be the very ubiquity of rape narrative that makes it difficult to spot when embedded in a rescue/romance trajectory. One of the more problematic aspects of this 'normalization' is the use of female beauty as a mitigating aspect and inevitable trigger of male sexual aggression (at its most extreme, male sexual aggression may be theorized as the logical validation of woman's beauty in narrative terms), as this is one of 'myths' of rape that feminism has struggled to dispel in relation to the lived experiences of historical women. Aredhel I will consider first the narrative relating to Aredhel in Chapter 16 of The Silmarillion, "Of Maeglin." Aredhel is first introduced to us as a character who wishes to leave the "guarded city of Gondolin" of which her brother, Turgon, is king. …

Making a Historical Fable: the narrative strategy of Lust, Caution and its social repercussions

Abstract: The screening of the film Lust, Caution in China in late 2007 and the subsequent banning of its actress in early 2008 created a great stir, arousing heated debates across many ranks of society. The debates lasted for more than half a year, making it one of the most sensational cultural (and political) events in China of the year. As a result, the intricate texture of its cinematic text and the complex reactions of the social context constitute an intriguing case of sophisticated cultural politics with rich and significant import. Through an analysis of the film's narrative strategy, this paper reveals the film's nature as a political film noir aimed to allegorize the history of modern China. A discussion of its diversified reception in the Chinese world, rather than echoing the mainstream opinion that sees the harsh critique from the Chinese populace as merely a blind reaction of rampant nationalist sentiment, discloses the heterogeneous voices among differing social forces competing for cultural hegemony...

Norman Mailer: Like a Wrecking Ball from Outer Space

Abstract: One cannot read more than a page or two of Mailer without a visceral reaction. Only D. H. Lawrence (or Henry Miller, subject of Mailer's typically eccentric 1976 anthology Genius and Lust) shocked ...

"Negotiating with the Dead": Jane Eyre in the Postmodern

Abstract: In 2006, the BBC produced a four-part adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The miniseries (or film, if watched in a single sitting) advertises itself as a lush revivification - a "making new" - of Bronte's somewhat dog-eared text; producer Diederick Santer describes screenwriter Sandy Welch "minfing]" the novel "for every ounce of passion, drama, colour, and madness available" and expresses confidence that "Sandy's original take on the story will be enjoyed as much by long-term fans of the book as by those who have never read it" ("Jane Eyre: About the Show"). The claim to originality is an interesting one, as it suggests an anxiety, on the part of the producer, to position the film as distinct from Jane Eyre's long tradition of cinematic adaptations (of which there have been, on average, more than two per decade since 1910 [Mitchell I]). Certainly, the image of the screenwriter "mining" the novel, paired with the suggestion that the film will be well-received by "long-term fans of the book," suggest a cinematic production derived exclusively from Bronte's text, bypassing generations of hamfisted, reductive, or otherwise inadequate attempts to put the novel to screen. Santer's claims are, of course, to be expected from the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre cohort, whose "studiously neutral adaptations" (Stewart 195) typically eschew the liberal touch of Hollywood and would disavow any connection to earlier popularizations of the novel. It is therefore interesting to observe the ways in which the 2006 Jane Eyre belies its producer's claims to originality and fidelity, exhibiting not only a patchwork aesthetic purloined from its cinematic predecessors but a strangely ambivalent portrayal of the novel's ideological universe: a mixture of nostalgia and revisionism that seems less a faithful return to the text than a negotiation between the desire for such a return and its impossibility in a present-day context. As I will argue, this aesthetic eclecticism and ideological ambivalence mark the 2006 adaptation as a characteristically postmodern production, demonstrating as they do a need to revisit, revive, and revamp Jane Eyre's often contradictory past lives in order to reconstitute the novel in the present. These revisitations, considered in light of writings on postmodern art and its engagement with nineteenth-century texts, destabilize the notions of originality and fidelity, questioning their tenability in a twenty-first-century context. I will speak first about the adaptation's "patchwork, purloined" aesthetic and the ways in which it belies the film's putative originality and exclusive allegiance to the novel. In its incipient moments, the 2006 Jane Eyre promises a film every bit as true to the novel's "drama, colour, and madness" as Santer claims. The opening credits depict a field of swirling crimson fabric, its vibrant hue evoking not only the standard spectrum of all 'things incarnadine (love, lust, passion, anger, and, of course, madness) but also the Red Room, that dread intersection of fantasy and fear, defiance and tyranny: the crucible of the Jane-ness of Jane. The title script, a scrawling Arabesque that writhes beneath an unadorned sans serif, is doubly clever; one can interpret it either as a literalization of what Fred Botting calls the "writing of excess" (1) - that characteristically Gothic invocation of the horrors "stirring within the foundations of the self" (Miles 2) - or, alternatively, as an expression of old-made-new: antique filigree overlaid by the sleek, straight lines of the modern. In either case, the font, like the background onto which it is projected, suggests an unadulterated allegiance to the Bronte text, evoking the novel's crimson iconography, gesturing at its Gothic undercurrents, and thus preparing the authence for a seamless, studious translation from book into film. This suggestion, however, becomes troubled by an uncanny sense of deja vu, since a well-seasoned authence, steeped in the long history of Jane Eyre adaptations, will have seen these opening credits before. …

Compensation in Rape Cases: A Critical Analysis of Supreme Court Cases from 2005-2009

Abstract: “While a murderer destroys the physical frame of a victim, a Rapist degrades and defiles the soul of a helpless female.” - J.Arijit Pasayat Sex related offences are universal phenomena, which take place in every society. Sexual offences aptly take the form of sexual violence, which sometimes cause severe and irreparable damage to the physical and mental health of the victims. Physical injury includes an increased risk of a range of sexual and reproductive health problems. Its impact on mental health can be equally serious as that of physical injury. Sexual offences, when they assume the form of sexual violence may lead to murder, suicide, acute depression, etc. of victims. It entirely disturbs the social well-being of the victims because of stigmatisation and the consequential loss of status in their families and the neighbourhood. The main thrust of this paper is to understand the phenomenon of sex related offences in terms of forces operative in the process of their perpetration, their magnitude and prevalence, and their prevention and control measures. In Rape a woman is ravished like an animal for the fulfillment of desire and lust of the man in the society. It completely undermines the integrity of the victim - physically as well as mentally.