Modernist Eroticisms [electronic resource] : European Literature After Sexology /
Schaffner, A.editor.
Weller, S.editor.
University of Kent.Centre for Modern European Literature.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism; 2 D. H. Lawrence: Sex, Love, Eros - and Pornography; 3 Grazing with Marcel Proust; 4 Seasick in the Land of Sexuality: Kafka and the Erotic; 5 Polymorphous Eroticism in the Early Plays of Hans Henny Jahnn; 6 From the Erotic to the Obscene: Joyce's Ulysses; 7 Towards a Unisex Erotics: Claude Cahun and Geometric Modernism; 8 'The ""Indecent"" Eternal': Eroticism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
9 Decomposition: Georges Bataille and the Language of Necrophilia10 Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig; 11 Modernism and the Erotics of Style; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual psychology.
British literature.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Sexual Behavior.
British and Irish Literature.