Sublime Enjoyment - On the Perverse Motive in American Literature

Klappentext An examination of 'perverse' desires in American literature. Zusammenfassung 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. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture! Dennis Foster shows how longings are linked to social forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the problem with pleasure; 2. The sublime community; 3. Re-Poe Man: Poe's un-American sublime; 4. Too resurgent: liquidity and consumption in Henry James; 5. Alphabetic pleasures: The Names; 6. J. G. Ballard's empire of the senses: perversion and the failure of authority; 7. Fatal West: W. S. Burrough's perverse destiny; 8. Conclusion: agency in the perverse; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Foster Dennis a., Dennis A. Foster, Dennis A. (Southern Methodist University Foster
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521108188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10818-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies