The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov
Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g
ISBN: 978-1-349-53147-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
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Innocence and Rapture 'Doomed Creatures of Immature Radiance': Renaissance, Death, and Rapture in Walter Pater Narcissists Anonymous: Reading and Dorian Gray's New Worlds 'Blameless and Foredoomed': Innocence and Haste in The Turn of the Screw Sentimentality, Desire, and Aestheticism in Lolita
