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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schaffner, A
• Weller, S
• Anna Katharina Schaffner
• Shane Weller
• Weller, Shane
• Schaffner, Anna Katharina

Titel

Modernist Eroticisms: European Literature After Sexology

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 At the heart of European literary modernism lies a concern with the erotic, and in particular with various forms of what Freud saw as 'sexual aberration', including sadism, masochism, homosexuality, fetishism and necrophilia. Modernist Eroticisms explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in modernist literature: writers whose work is discussed include Djuna Barnes, Georges Bataille, Édouard Dujardin, Hans Henny Jahnn, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Frank Wedekind and Oscar Wilde. Taken together, the essays in this volume explore not only the specificities of the modernist writing of the erotic, but also its decisive role in the shift from conceptions of sexual deviance to those of sexual difference. 02 02 This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn. 04 02 List of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.K.Schaffner & S.Weller Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism; E.Boa D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Love, Eros – and Pornography; M.Bell Grazing with Marcel Proust; T.Baldwin Seasick in the Land of Sexuality: Kafka and the Erotic; A.K.Schaffner Polymorphous Eroticism in the Early Plays of Hans Henny Jahnn; R.Robertson From the Erotic to the Obscene: Joyce's Ulysses ; J-M.Rabaté Towards a Unisex Erotics: Claude Cahun and Geometric Modernism; E.Apter 'The 'Indecent' Eternal': Eroticism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ; D.Caselli Decomposition: Georges Bataille and the Language of Necrophilia; S.Weller Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig; L.Downing Modernism and the Erotics of Style; B.Hutchinson Bibliography Index 13 02 ANNA KATHARINA SCHAFFNER teaches Comparative Literature and is Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. Her publications include Sprachzerlegung in historischer Avantgardelyrik und konkreter Poesie (2007) and Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850–1930 (2012). SHANE WELLER is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (2008), and Modernism and Nihilism (2011). 31 02 This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in European literary modernism 19 02 First volume in new Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature series Discusses a wide range of Modernist writers, including Joyce, Proust and D.H. Lawrence Increasing interest in field of 'sexology' Modernism a strong area for sales – growth demonstrated by new series/conferences/journals in this area First comparative study on modernist representations of the erotic Features essays by international experts on major modernist writers