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21. Hello, I'm Erica Jong (Contact Publications Series) by Kathy Acker | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(1982-06)
list price: US$3.00 Isbn: 0936556072 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
22. Fruits & Vegetables Poems by Erica Jong ( Her First Book ) by Erica Jong | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1971)
Asin: B000JD1YDK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
23. Sexual revolution; photographs by Fred W. McDarrah, foreword by Erica Jong. by Jeffrey, ed Escoffier | |
Paperback:
Pages
(2003)
Asin: B0044MNBAQ Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
24. Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation: The Example of Erica Jong by Charlotte Templin | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(1995-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Typecast by her adversaries as a media-seeking sensationalist, Erica Jong has been unfairly side-stepped by academia, Charlotte Templin contends. In this carefully researched study augmented by personal interviews with Jong, Templin assembles and analyzes the medley of responses to Jong's books by reviewers, critics, writers, academics, and the media--by liberals, conservatives, and feminists. She examines the diverse opinions on the merit and relevance to contemporary life of Fear of Flying; the invocation of a high culture/low culture dichotomy to discredit How to Save Your Own Life; the anatomy of literary success with Fanny; Jong's reception in a postfeminist age, and the trivialization of Jong's works that is inevitable with mass media exposure. Templin also shows how antagonistic reviewers tend to identify Jong with her fictitious characters--a practice more common when the author is a woman--and judge her to be guilty of the sin of not being a "proper woman." In turn she shows how reviewers reveal something of their own values and ideological biases in their critiques and how literary reputations are built, destroyed, and altered over time. The first book to make a detailed examination of the reputation of a woman writer, Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation provides an excellent case study for the literary reception of women writers within a broad cultural context. Templin's analysis offers valuable insight into the reception of women writers--especially commercially successful women writers--and dramatically illustrates the relation of literary reputation to popular appeal and cultural mores. Customer Reviews (1)
Well, let's talk about this, please... |
25. Fears Of Flying by Erica Jong | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1973)
Asin: B0044N4R08 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
26. Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(1992-10-07)
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Beans & Coffee
Sensual Poetry
Something to keep I have hadthis collection for about five years now, and still on a rainly afternoon,I will occasionnally pick it up and flip through it. Each time I do, I findsomething new, something honest, and something funny. Unlike Slvia Plathand Anne Sexton, Jong is hunourous about the life and painful parts ofbeing a woman. Her poetry reminds us that each person has their ownsecrets, but does not have to be ashamed and yes, you can laugh about it. I love the way she references people, facts, and things we can relateto. In some ways, these poems are a series of essays about women, life, andthe time it was written because it is a collection, you can also feel andsee the changes of the times through it. Sometimes Jong's work can seemsloppy if broken down under scrutiny, yet the essence of the poem is alwayfresh and creative. I highly recommend this collection.
inspiration for the soul |
27. What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(1999-12-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is Jong at her best and worst, alternately flailing wildly andlanding squarely on the mark. "It's hard to be a novelist in theage of soap opera," she observes, commenting on AmericanPresident Clinton's sexual peccadilloes. "The slow accretion of500 well-wrought words a day seems pointless beside the dizzying andbreathless plot lines served up by the evening news." Thedelicious irony of the book's title is no accident; it's a questionSigmund Freud asked and never satisfactorily answered. Neither doesJong, but her cultural commentary has flashes of brilliance and themoxie necessary to cut to the head of the line. --FrancescaColtrera Customer Reviews (3)
If you like Jong, you'll like this book
Entertaining and likeable
Politically Correct Feminist Ramblings |
28. Les parachutes dicare by Jong Erica | |
Paperback:
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(2001-02-26)
Isbn: 2277220612 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
29. Half-lives by Erica Jong | |
Paperback:
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(1975)
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30. Fruits and Vegetables by Erica Jong | |
Hardcover: 112
Pages
(1997-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Here is thetwenty-fifth anniversary edition of Erica Jong's very first book: a surrealistic, funny, gastronomic, erotic, serious look at being human and female and American. Erica Jong, the best-selling author of Fear of Flying, and more recently, Fear of Fifty, began her literary life as a poet. Fruits & Vegetables, originally published in 1971, offers a glimpse into the daring, erotic imagination of a young author of great promise. Here is a writer who puts metaphors in her oven, fruits and vegetables in her bed. In her tide poem, Jong considers the character of the onion: "Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away . . ." Throughout her debut collection, Erica Jong demonstrates a remarkable adventurousness, erudition, lyricism, and command of the poetic form. At the same time, she examines many of the themes she will pursue in years to come. On the subject of desire, she writes: "The corruption begins with the eyes, / the page, the hunger. / It hangs on the first hook / of the first comma.... The corruption begins with the mouth, / the tongue, the wanting. / The first poem in the world / is I want to eat. For the many fans who have yet to discover-or rediscover-where the literary career of Erica Jong began, this special anniversary edition of Fruits & Vegetables, complete with a new preface by the author, is a must. Customer Reviews (3)
Erica Jong has created another masterpiece collection!
excellent debut
A MUST READ FOR ALL POETRY LOVERS! Erica writes lovingly of the lowly Onion!"I am thinking ofthe onion again, with it's two O mouths, like the gaping holes in nobody. .. . " and it is pure ecstasy! I highly recommend this book to allpoetry lovers.Also visite her website for even more inspriation: ericajong.com. ... Read more |
31. Witches' Brew | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-10-01)
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Broad Overview of Pop and Classic Witch Literature Something Wicked This Way Comes also contains W.B. Yeats, "The Sorcerer."Jocks identifies Yeats as a Ceremonial Magician in addition to the revered Irish poet and playwright that most know him to be.Yeats was a member of the Theosophical Society, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. H.P. Blavatsky cofounder of this order, is included with a piece titled "Can the Double Murder"Cotton Mather, a staunch supporter of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials work provides an account that will chill the bones of most witches.Mather's short piece "Bridget Bishop" concerns a witch trial that depends on "spectral" evidence.On the lighter side, Benjamin Franklin's (yes, that Benjamin Franklin)short story is a tongue in cheek critique of the "scientific" approach used in witch trials.Franklin's contribution written in 1730 is a short essay called "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly."Oscar Wilde's mother, Lady Wilde's piece "The Horned Woman" is a legend about Irish witches.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is included with a dark look at magic in "The Leather Funnel." Next, we find That's Witch with a "W": Witchcraft as Em-Power-ment.This chapter presents the powerful, omnipotent, witch and crone archetype.Beginning with a short poem by Emily Bronte, that uses nature as a metaphor for the spell that love casts."Snatcher" by Dean Koontz is a compelling piece that makes a delightful read aloud piece on a dark and stormy night.This is a classic crone revenge story that includes a repulsive villain and a hideous monster.Doreen Valiente, one of the founders of the neopaganism movement is appropriately included in the anthology twice.Her poem "The Witch's Ballad," provides an insiders experience of a Sabbat.Erica Jong's "Figure of the Witch" truly embodies the theme of this chapter. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme: The Nature Witch is the last and my favorite chapter. Sandwiched between Doreen Valiente's basic course in witch craft "The Witches' Creed" poem and Erica Jong's potent warning against witch bias and anti-Semitism"Smoke," are wonderful pieces by the likes of Brothers Grimm and Emily Dickinson. A touching tale suitable to read tochildren "The Christmas Witch" by Rosemary Edgehill explains the significance of Yuletide. Evelyn Vaughn, (the pen name of the editor) contributes a lengthy story "Winter Solstice" that focuses on the semi-annual battle for dominance between the Oak King and Holly King. It is pleasing that Native American voices are also included.Anita Endrezze's mythic tale, "The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves," is an eerie Yaqui tale of a crone's epiphany after a retreat in a cave.Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, offers a haunting shape-shifter poem "The Strange People."If more diverse voices were included the anthology would be stronger still, afterall, witch and magic are global. Yvonne Jocks' anthology provides a broad overview of popular and classic witch literature, crossing continents, cultures and approximately 400 years. ... Read more |
32. Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir by Erica Jong | |
Hardcover: 485
Pages
(1994-09)
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Fear of Reading
Ageless Erica Anyone who has ever read an Erica novel, anyone who ever plans to, anyone who yearns to hear a profoundly female voice speak honestly yet comfortingly into her/his mind's ear - this is a must-have. Besides answering every "Where does Isadora end and Erica begin?" question, this book contains a good dozen touching poems, countless anecdotes, and the sweetly detailed account of how Erica met her current husband. Erica writes about being a writer, a Jew, a feminist, a scholar, a daughter, a mother, a wife - a WOMAN. It is a novel, I believe, about WOMANHOOD, first and foremost, from the pen of a woman who has seen hell and high water during her 50 years. Far from being a boring mid-life memoir, the book reads like a novel and a really fun one at that, with all the feminine feminism, the wry jokes, the clever commentary and the juicy sex scenes of Erica's other books. Unlike her novels, however, this book draws the bold authoress out from between the lines and places her right before the reader - beautifully unembellished, womanly, young enough to take another ride on the rollercoaster and old enough to truly appreciate it.
Erica Jong Grows Up It seems that Erica Jong has finally grown up.Gone is the obsession with sex and the dependence on men that characterized her earlier books.In this book, Ms. Jong comes to terms with the contradictions of her existence, and in so doing, very intelligently points out the wild contradictions of her generation and of our contemporary society. The best section comes at the end, where Ms. Jong lays out her own personal feminist treatise.This section, although highly theoretical, is endowed with a clarity and passion that should rally every single woman reader, regardless of age, to the cause. Ms. Jong quite rightly chastises women as well as men for causing and maintaining the feminist backlash.Encouraging harmony, comprehension and unity, she calls for a new feminism that would include all women regardless of class, race, age, sexual orientation or profession.She exalts the creativity and artistic or professional ability of women, as well as their capacity for motherhood and caretaking.In fact, she suggests that the two sides of a woman are complementary rather than imcompatible. This book really clarified for me the situation of women in our Western society.I highly recommend it to anyone of any age interested in art, culture, literature, history or feminism. Although the content is highly intellectual in some respects, Ms. Jong's entertaining, passionate and humorous voice is always present. And it is absolutely not a "woman's book"; it is vital that as many men as possible read Fear of Fifty.
the same old story About "Fear of fifty": It seems to me that Erica Jong has written the same story, again & again. And again. And again, until frankly anyone, even the most well-intentioned person would get tired of it all. I was certainly enthusiastic about her writing at first. But what I think has happened is this-- beginning with "Fear of flying", & in all the books after that, what she has written really is her life story. As I said- really good & original to read the first time around (that's why "Fear of flying" is still Jong's best-selling book) but tedious after a while. The heroine of "Fear of flying" seems to be in no waydifferent from the woman shown in "Fear of fifty", & I have no idea why Erica Jong thought she had to write an autobiography. In "Fear of fifty" she just re-wrote the same things she'd already written in other books. I'm sure I'm no exception when I say that I was already familiar with all the themes in the book, & I knew what was coming, all the way through. This is the reason that I found "Fear of fifty" unoriginal & repetitive, although I must say that there was some comfort to be had in returning to these familiar themes. My point is--Erica Jong's ideas are interesting & her writing is (sometimes) inspired. But reading her books has been like eating the same food again & again: the first time around it was tasty. After a while, it got boring.
Ah, to be a Jewish American Princess. . . . |
33. Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur. by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 285
Pages
(2003-03-01)
Isbn: 342313058X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
34. Ordinary Miracles (Plume) by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 1
Pages
(1983-09-28)
list price: US$5.95 -- used & new: US$3.92 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0452254361 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
35. Keine Angst vor Fünfzig. by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 478
Pages
(1996-09-01)
Isbn: 3423122706 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
36. Parachutes & kisses by Erica Jong | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1984)
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Customer Reviews (1)
Trying too much |
37. Loveroot by Erica Jong | |
Paperback:
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(1976-01-01)
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Words of truth.................. And yes she writes of sex and the sensual but what harm is that we only exist because of sex.
scathing poetic realism from a woman's perspective Some of the poems also address Jong's poetic predecessor's, such as Pablo Neruda, Colette, and Mary Shelley, and these little poems may probably cause you to re-evaluate the original authorsin light of Jong's unique viewpoint. Sometimes scathing realism. Graphic language.
Loveroot Review |
38. La planche de salut by Erica Jong | |
Mass Market Paperback: 414
Pages
(1991-06-01)
Isbn: 2253057274 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
39. Cancion Triste de Cualquier Mujer (Spanish Edition) by Erica Jong | |
Paperback:
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(1990-12)
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40. Megan's Book of Divorce by Erica Jong | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(1985-04-25)
Isbn: 0246125314 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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