Format:
XXI, 315 S.
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21 cm
ISBN:
9780230231627
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9780230231634
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0230231624
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0230231632
Series Statement:
Modernism and ...
Content:
"Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge"--
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 298 - 311
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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE PERVERSIONS IN SEXOLOGY -- The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing -- The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism -- Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence -- The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn -- Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind -- PART II: THE PERVERSIONS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE -- Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime -- Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence -- Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil -- Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering -- Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schaffner, Anna Katharina, 1978 - Modernism and perversion Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 9780230231627
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230231634
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
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Moderne
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Perversion
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Erotik
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Abweichendes Sexualverhalten
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