Modernist eroticisms European literature after sexology / edited by Anna Katharina Schaffner and Shane Weller.
| Other author | Schaffner, Anna Katharina. |
| Other author | Weller, Shane. |
| Other author | University of Kent. Centre for Modern European Literature. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Palgrave studies in modern European literature Palgrave studies in modern European literature. ^A1144907 |
| Contents | Innocent monsters : the erotic child in early modernism / Elizabeth Boa -- D.H. Lawrence : sex, love, eros and pornography / Michael Bell -- Grazing with Marcel Proust / Thomas Baldwin -- Seasick in the land of sexuality : Kafka and the erotic / Anna Katharina Schaffner -- Polymorphous eroticism in the early plays of Hans Henny Jahnn / Ritchie Robertson -- From the erotic to the obscene : Joyce's Ulysses / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Towards a unisex erotics : Claude Cahun and geometric modernism / Emily Apter -- The indecent eternal : eroticism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Daniela Caselli -- Decomposition : Georges Bataille and the language of necrophilia / Shane Weller -- Sexual perversion as textual resistance in the works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig / Lisa Downing -- Modernism and the erotics of style / Ben Hutchinson. |
| Summary | This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012532863 |
| ISBN | 9781137030290 |
| ISBN | 1137030291 |
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