ISBN: 9780801487644

Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that Hitler turned me on in the highest, while Sylvia Plath maintains that every woman adores a Fascist. Susan Sontag's famous observation tha… Mehr…

Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that Hitler turned me on in the highest, while Sylvia Plath maintains that every woman adores a Fascist. Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts—including sadomasochism and homosexuality—not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Cornell University Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9780801487644

Salvador Dalí''s autobiography confesses that ""Hitler turned me on in the highest,"" while Sylvia Plath maintains that ""every woman adores a Fascist."" Susan Sontag''s famous observati… Mehr…

Salvador Dalí''s autobiography confesses that ""Hitler turned me on in the highest,"" while Sylvia Plath maintains that ""every woman adores a Fascist."" Susan Sontag''s famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts?including sadomasochism and homosexuality?not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy''s investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy. | Sex Drives by Laura Frost Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Laura Frost<

ISBN: 9780801487644

Salvador Dalí''s autobiography confesses that ""Hitler turned me on in the highest,"" while Sylvia Plath maintains that ""every woman adores a Fascist."" Susan Sontag''s famous observatio… Mehr…

Salvador Dalí''s autobiography confesses that ""Hitler turned me on in the highest,"" while Sylvia Plath maintains that ""every woman adores a Fascist."" Susan Sontag''s famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts?including sadomasochism and homosexuality?not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy''s investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy. | Sex Drives by Laura Frost Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Laura Frost<

2001, ISBN: 9780801487644

Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism, Buch, Softcover, Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every wo… Mehr…

Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism, Buch, Softcover, Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics? Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts?including sadomasochism and homosexuality?not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy. [PU: Cornell University Press], Seiten: 208, Cornell University Press, 2001<