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- Herausgeber: BookThug
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
What are the essential ingredients for an erotic novel that revolutionized sales, revitalized a genre that seemed to have been forgotten and created a loyal community of fanatical readers around the world in only two years. Is it porn for housewives or a genre impossible to classify?
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Inhalt
Literary Boom
Sexual Fantasy in Literature
Housewives
Literary Phenomena
The Successful Joke
The Early Story
The Direct Antecedent
The “Fan Fiction”
The Transmutation
The Distributed Trilogy
What Happens in the Shades?
The Characters
The Tone of the Story
Formal Aspects of Writing
The Bondage
The BDSM
Variations of Female Fantasy
Erotic Generosity
Stallion Quintessential
A Postmodern Werther
Romantic Hero
Balance of Tones
High Points in the Text
Low Points of the Text
The Canons of Literature
A Translation
The Construction of the Efficacy
The Machinery of Marketing
Utilitarian Literature
The Identity
Marriage and Fantasies
Wave of Marital Eroticism
Therapeutic masochism
The Paradox of Submission
Free sexuality
The Female Orgasm
The Violence
Female Controversy
Stimulation
Eroticism
The Demand for Equality
Diversity
Exegesis of the Author
The Imitations
The Consumer Frame
Some Statistics
Balsam for a Deteriorating Situation
The End Before Time
Can Many People Be Mistaken?
Fate
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Literary Boom
It is widely known that the contemporary world is ruled by media impact and the overwhelming force of fame which many times makes it impossible for success and quality to co-exist.
However, a lot of novels that reach immediate success are great and their editions have multiplied in such a way that it seems that almost every home has one. However, quality is not really necessary to succeed. There many other attributes that can make a book become a best-seller.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the revolutionary erotic novel, with sales of over 20 million, has become one of the most sold in history. But that’s not all; it caused a “boom” in the literary world with a genre that seemed forgotten. It also revived the erotic clubs in London and caused a powerful sensation: the book world started to replicate the erotic formula.
Specialists note that these are some of the ingredients that have contributed to the success of the famous “Shades.”
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Sexual Fantasy in Literature
In 1977, the mythical erotic Spanish literature collection, The Vertical Smile, was created and directed by Luis García Berlanga with the purpose of reviving a genre considered damned.
At that time, Berlanga proclaimed: “We want to give air to be breathed because the wish is health and especially want to recover the cult to erection, hedonism and fertile crops that good and joyful literature can offer to us.” He also added “writing about the biologically appealing is something imminent to all ages, all geographies, all men.”
In the beginning, readers delved into this genre in order to find sexual stories with happy endings. Then, curiosity emerged about subjects not spoken often about such as sadomasochism. Included in this subject matter was a collection of famous pieces; some of these were later turned into movies, such as Nine ½ Weeks, by Elizabeth McNeill; Story of O, by Pauline Réage; The Ties That Bind, by Vanessa Duriès; and the iconic Emmanuele, by E. Arsan.
Leaning on the fundamentals of Freud, novelist Manuel Vilas argues that “the passage of primate to homo sapiens is not the reason, but the discovery of eroticism”. In this statement one of the keys of the genre is evidenced. Sex poses an ongoing conflict between “fulfillment and happiness, but also between frustration and pain.”
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Housewives
The modest housewife may look morally virtuous on the surface and might conceal her internal drives. It is not difficult to penetrate that wall to understand that desire is inherent in the human condition and the expectation to uphold social norms merely enhances it.
It is Berlanga who in the 80s finds an axiom that reveals: “Modesty is the birthplace of eroticism”.
The bourgeois housewife’s image, although stereotyped, is remarkably current. It is the response to a map of erotic possibilities, where there are no limits in the unleashed fantasy, but is never actually realized.
This could be one reason that 96% of all buyers of Fifty Shades of Grey are women.
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Literary Phenomena
In this age of digital technology, there has been a significant decline in book sales. Best-sellers have been less frequent.
Distancing themselves from that situation, with obscenely high sales, are “sagas” – a series of books that revolve around the same story or character.
Leading this revival was the Millennium trilogy, by the Swedish-born Stieg Larsson, whose first book Men Who Hate Women had an immediate global impact. The rest of the titles we are focusing on are English. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, explores a conspiracy theory about the Holy Grail and the role of Mary Magdalene. Referring to Christianity, it develops a hybrid of mystery and esotericism. The book was so successful that it demanded a prequel. Harry Potter, by the English author JK Rowling, was published in seven volumes. All were made into movies with the same outcome in sales. The Hunger Games
