The Pleasures of Death : Kurt Cobain's Masochistic and Melancholic Persona /

"The year 2019 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, an artist whose music, words, and images continue to move millions of fans worldwide. As the first academic study that provides a literary analysis of Cobain's creative writings, Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saint-Aubin, Arthur Flannigan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cobain, Kurt, > 1967-1994
Cobain, Kurt, > 1967-1994 > Diaries > History and criticism.
Cobain, Kurt, > 1967-1994 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melancholy
Masochism
Masculinity
Grunge music
Diaries
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Melancholy.
Masochism.
Masculinity.
Grunge music > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reading Kurt Cobain: Consolation for the Disconsolate
  • I. CONTEXTS: MUSIC HISTORIES AND MASCULINITIES
  • 1. From Punk to Nirvana: Toward a Profeminist, Gay-Affirmative Cultural Practice
  • 2. The Cobain Persona, the White Male Body, and the Creation of an Ideal Masculine Self
  • II. TEXTS: LYRICS AND JOURNALS
  • 3. Cobain's Lyrics: The Anxiety of Living as Male and Straight in a Misogynist and Heterosexist Culture
  • 4. The Pages of Cobain's Journals "Smell Like Semen": Writing (with) the Male Body
  • III. THEORIES: MASOCHISM AND MELANCHOLY
  • 5. Power, Pleasure, and Pain: Creating a Masochistic Persona
  • 6. The Pleasures of Death: Creating a Melancholic Persona
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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