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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foster, Dennis A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Popular culture > United States.
Desire in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States.
American literature > Psychological aspects.
American literature > Themes, motives.
Littérature américaine > Thèmes, motifs.
Sublime dans la littérature.
Plaisir dans la littérature.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Désir dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
Américains dans la littérature.
Esthétique américaine.
Psychanalyse et littérature > États-Unis.
Littérature américaine > Aspect psychologique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Popular culture.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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