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Sublime enjoyment : on the perverse motive in American literature /

"Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by "perverse" desires. This perversity arises from the failure of symbolic satisfactions - love, work, success - t...

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Основен автор: Foster, Dennis A.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Серия: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Предмети:
American literature > History and criticism.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Popular culture > United States.
Desire in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States.
American literature > Psychological aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Popular culture.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
United States > .
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Sublime enjoyment.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: the problem with pleasure
  • The sublime community
  • Re-Poe man: Poe's un-american sublime
  • "Too resurgent": liquidity and consumption in Henry James
  • Alphabetic pleasures: the names
  • J.G. Ballard's Empire of the senses: perversion and the failure of authority
  • Fatal west: W.S. Burrough's perverse destiny
  • Conclusion: agency in the perverse.

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