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Tame Passions of Wilde : The Styles of Manageable Desire /

What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired...

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Autor principal: Nunokawa, Jeff (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Edición:Course Book
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO. Oscar Wilde in Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homosexual
  • CHAPTER THREE. Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the Social Body Beautiful
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Anorexia: The Case of Oscar Wilde
  • CHAPTER SIX. Oscar Wilde and the Passion of the Eye
  • INDEX