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    Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia
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    Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia

    By Steve Finbow

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateNov 28, 2014
    ISBN9781782793410
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    Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia
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    Steve Finbow

    Steve Finbow lives and writes in London. He is the author of books of fiction and non-fiction. He is currently working on a new novel about New York City in the late '80s and a work on literature and illness.

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