Fuchs The Limits of Ferocity

Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9411-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuchs, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Freud and the Postwar Temper 11

2. Freud and Others on Aggression 24

3. Wilhelm Reich 40

4. Norman O. Brown 53

5. Deleuze and Guattari 67

Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 88

6. The Marquis de Sade 102

7. D. H. Lawrence 145

8. Georges Bataille 194

Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 224

9. Henry Miller 232

Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 271

10. Norman Mailer 293

Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332

Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346

Notes 363

Index 391

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.