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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1997.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38473094*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
