Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 13 de nov. 1997 - 180 pàgines 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 - to make us happy, and from our refusal to accept that failure. Hoping to achieve satisfaction, we respond ultimately to situations that evoke older, more primary drives and their attendant emotions. But while a conventional pervert knows exactly what to want, the healthy pervert must find enjoyment inadvertently: in the object of the sublime, in duty and reason, and in the obligations of a 'fun morality'. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways in which longings are linked to social forces. |
Continguts
The Sublime Community | 20 |
Poes UnAmerican Sublime | 38 |
Liquidity and Consumption | 67 |
The Names | 89 |
Perversion | 108 |
W S Burroughss Perverse Destiny | 130 |
Agency in the Perverse | 153 |
Bibliography | 171 |
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Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature Dennis A. Foster Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
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White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism Phillip Barrish Previsualització limitada - 2005 |
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 Phillip Barrish Previsualització limitada - 2001 |