Format:
1 Online-Ressource (148 p)
Edition:
1st, New ed
ISBN:
9781453902455
Series Statement:
Austrian Culture 44
Content:
This book examines Elfriede Jelinek’s investigation of Austria’s and Western Europe’s «obscene fantasies» through her «perversion» of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central psychoanalytic concept (alienation, jouissance, perversion, and sublimation) and reads a Jelinek text in relation to the genre that it is perverting, exposing the «obscene fantasies» that lie at its heart. This book argues that the disruption of genres is one of Jelinek’s most significant literary contributions, with her works functioning to create a «negative aesthetics» as opposed to a positive reworking of generic forms
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433110603
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781433110603
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-0245-5
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