Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 310
Book Description
Sexualité, érotisme dans la littérature américaine
Author: Erotisme et sexualité dans la littérature américaine
Author: Sexualité et textualité dans la littérature américaine contemporaine
Author: Yves-Charles GrandjeatPublisher: Presses Univ de Bordeaux
ISBN: 9782867812118
Category : American literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
Author: I. GlicksbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
1. The Dialectic of the Sex-Motif in Literature Sex is a function of culture; in literature today it plays only a small though aggressively righteous part. Nature, long held in bondage, periodically breaks out in revolt, but its victory is never complete. In every society, prim itive as well as modem, the sexual instinct is for good or evil always subject to some measure of regulation and restraint. In literature, where the battle between love and sex, spirit and flesh, is fought out in terms of symbolic action, the writers support their cause, for or against sexual freedom, with varying degrees of evangelical ardor and outspokenness. On this issue there is no unanimity for the simple reason that American culture is not unified in its beliefs concerning the nature of man. The central conflict between instinctual needs and the claims of the ideal, between physical desire and the inner check, between Dionysus and Christ, goes on all the time. Sublimation is the cultural process whereby sexual energy is deflected from its biological source and diverted into spiritually "higher" and socially more useful channels. But sublimation is for most men hard to achieve. As civilization grows more complex, the individual is exposed to a series of increasingly severe moral strains. Pitted against Nature while subject to its laws, he must hence forth be governed in his behavior by inner as well as outer controls.
American Studies
Author: The Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
Author: Charles Irving GlicksbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789401195461
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1. The Dialectic of the Sex-Motif in Literature Sex is a function of culture; in literature today it plays only a small though aggressively righteous part. Nature, long held in bondage, periodically breaks out in revolt, but its victory is never complete. In every society, prim itive as well as modem, the sexual instinct is for good or evil always subject to some measure of regulation and restraint. In literature, where the battle between love and sex, spirit and flesh, is fought out in terms of symbolic action, the writers support their cause, for or against sexual freedom, with varying degrees of evangelical ardor and outspokenness. On this issue there is no unanimity for the simple reason that American culture is not unified in its beliefs concerning the nature of man. The central conflict between instinctual needs and the claims of the ideal, between physical desire and the inner check, between Dionysus and Christ, goes on all the time. Sublimation is the cultural process whereby sexual energy is deflected from its biological source and diverted into spiritually "higher" and socially more useful channels. But sublimation is for most men hard to achieve. As civilization grows more complex, the individual is exposed to a series of increasingly severe moral strains. Pitted against Nature while subject to its laws, he must hence forth be governed in his behavior by inner as well as outer controls.
Eros, science & fiction, fantastique
Author: Centre d'études et de recherches sur les littératures de l'imaginaire (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail). ColloquePublisher: Presses de L'Université de Provence
ISBN:
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : fr
Pages : 232
Book Description
Revue Française D'études Américaines
Author: Pakistan Journal of American Studies
Author: Critical Angles
Author: Marc ChénetierPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume demonstrates an awareness of contemporary American literature on the part of 13 European critics, and is organized in two parts. The first part, "Wide Angles," explores the methodology and the problems posed by the study of innovative texts. The essayists--French, Italian, German, Belgian, and British critics--offer perspectives on modernism and postmodernism, author-reader relations in narrative, narrative themes and strategies, and poetry and drama. The second part, "Applied Cinometrics," deals with particular authors and their works. Subjects discussed include: Walker Percy; the novels of William Gaddis and John Sorrentino; a comparative study of Nabokov and Balthus; Raymond Carver; David Mamet; Donald Barthelme; and Sam Shepard. ISBN 0-8093-1216-6: $21.95.