What type of genre did Robery Ranke's Graves White Goddess fit into?
Robert Graves Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert Ranke Graves and most commonly Robert Graves, was an English poet, novelist, critic and classicist. In a way similar to Oscar Wilde, Robert Graves was a Celticist and student of Irish mythology, by the influence of his father Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet — with William Wilde, these families were inheritors of the Gaelic revival. He produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems—together with his translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths; his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, "Good-Bye to All That"; and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, "The White Goddess"—have never been out of print. Irish literature deeply affected Graves' White Goddess theories, specifically the genre aisling.
Whore dialogues Whore dialogues are a literary genre of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and a type of erotic fiction. The first example was the "Ragionamenti" by Pietro Aretino, followed by such works as "La Retorica delle Puttane" ("The Whore's Rhetoric") (1642) by Ferrante Pallavicino; "L'Ecole des Filles" (The School for Girls) (1655), attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange and also known as "The School of Venus"; "The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea" (c. 1660) by Nicolas Chorier—known also as "A Dialogue between a Married Woman and a Maid" in various editions. Such works typically concerned the sexual education of a naive younger woman by an experienced older woman and often included elements of philosophising, medical folklore, satire and anti-clericalism. The later works in this genre, such as that by Chorier, indulge in a more sophisticated type of sexual fantasy and are the precursors of the more explicit pornography which followed in Europe.