A Grave Desire

Grave Desire is an analysis of the occasions of necrophilia throughout history, literature and the arts. It is an examination of the breaking of taboos and the metastasizing of fetishes in individuals and cultures using the works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek and others to explore the biographies of known necrophiles such as Carl von Cosel, Karen Greenlee and Ed Gein, and to analyze the cultures of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Troy, Victorian England and the first to eighth century CE civilization of the Moche people in northern Peru who used necrophilia as a means of religious time travel. Throughout the book, examples from the works of Herodotus, the Metaphysical poets, the Marquis de Sade, Cormac McCarthy, Poppie Z Brite, Jörg Buttgereit and more are used for illustration.

Heather was thrown into the thick of it when her government sent her to spy for them in one of Germany's concentration camps. Viktor was utterly captivated by the camps latest female groupe. Perhaps she could please him for a time before he got bored and moved on. Time was so very fleeting in the camp. Will Heather ensnare Viktor and find out what's truly going on in the camp before it's too late? Will her government rescue her or will she have to get herself out of danger?

Can true love be found and nurtured in World War II? Heather was sent to a concentration camp to report back to her country the crimes of humanity. She ends up with in over her head with no way out. Viktor was the most ruthless leader of the concentration camp, he knows Heather's life is numbered in mere days and yet she attracts him like a moth to a flame. Will Viktor give up all trying to save Heather? Will Heather cross the enemy lines for true love?

An Erotic Novella Can true love be found and nurtured in World War II? Heather was sent to a concentration camp to report back to her country the crimes of humanity. She ends up with in over her head with no way out. Viktor was the most ruthless leader of the concentration camp, he knows Heather's life is numbered in mere days and yet she attracts him like a moth to a flame. Will Viktor give up all trying to save Heather? Will Heather cross the enemy lines for true love?

Be careful what you reap. You might fall in love with her... Get four sizzing-hot reaper romance novels in one incredible box set from award-winning author Lori Sjoberg! Welcome to the addictive world of Grave Desires, with forbidden passions, fated mates, sexy reapers, rogue demons, alpha heroes, and strong, smart heroines. Each full-length book features a separate couple and their own happily forever after. Books included in this reaper romance box set: Grave Intentions Grave Destinations Grave Vengeance Grave Attraction "A fun and satisfying read for fans of paranormal and supernatural romance." ~ Library Journal "Grave Intentions has great characters, a very entertaining story line and a good amount of action. I really enjoyed this story. I laughed, got choked up and sighed in appreciation…Lori Sjoberg definitely did a fantastic job making her characters relatable." ~ Tome Tender "If you are looking for a light paranormal romance that weaves in suspense this series is a lot of fun." ~ Caffeinated Book Reviewer "Bottom line: if you are a paranormal romance junkie, this is a must read series." ~ Book Briefs "There's so much to offer in this book- excellent story telling, good action, great suspense, and a steamy as all get out romance!" ~ Happy Tails and Tales

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard. Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today, Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect.

Lynne Huffer’s ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists’ politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault’s ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray’s lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference. Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics “beyond good and evil” without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the “catastrophe” of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.

1347. Calais has finally fallen and Alaun de Montisfryth, first Earl of Montisfryn, powerful Marcher lord and companion of Edward III, is dispatched back to England with orders to secure the Welsh border. Halfway home, pride tempts Montisfryn to attend a tournament held by his family's old foes at Versallet Castle. Eloise de Versallet, the widowed Lady de Cannar, rules her father's castle with a tongue sharper than any sword. She has no great opinion of men in general and of knights in particular. Montisfryn and Eloise meet and sparks fly. He is intrigued. She is irritated. He is under royal edict to wed. An experienced lady, well-born, still young, and exceedingly well-endowed with both wealth and beauty, Eloise is a matrimonial prize beyond compare-and has vowed to remain unwed. Potent and powerful, will Montisfryn be able to breach her walls, storm her castle, and succeed where all others have failed? Or will Eloise, haughty and defiant to the last, prevail? The gauntlet is flung, the challenge accepted. And desire enters the fray.