What type of genre did Robery Ranke's Graves White Goddess fit into?
The White Goddess The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth is a book-length essay on the nature of poetic myth-making by author and poet Robert Graves. First published in 1948, the book is based on earlier articles published in "Wales" magazine, corrected, revised and enlarged editions appeared in 1948, 1952 and 1961. "The White Goddess" represents an approach to the study of mythology from a decidedly creative and idiosyncratic perspective. Graves proposes the existence of a European deity, the "White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death," much similar to the "Mother Goddess", inspired and represented by the phases of the moon, who lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European and pagan mythologies.
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.