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The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents /
"Aldous Huxley decried 'the horrors of modern "pleasure, "' or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | NONE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure
- James Joyce and the scent of modernity
- Stein's tickle
- Orgasmi discipline: D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction
- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world
- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys
- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema
- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure.