ISBN:
9780230231627
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9780230231634
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0230231624
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0230231632
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 315 S.
,
21 cm
Series Statement:
Modernism and ...
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Schaffner, Anna Katharina Modernism and perversion
DDC:
306.7/09
Keywords:
Paraphilias History
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Sexology History
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Sex customs in literature
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Sex in literature History
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Modernism (Literature)
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Paraphilias in literature
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History
;
19th century
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Paraphilias in literature
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History
;
20th century
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European literature
;
19th century
;
History and criticism
;
European literature
;
20th century
;
History and criticism
;
Sexology
;
Europe
;
History
;
19th century
;
Sexology
;
Europe
;
History
;
20th century
;
Modernism (Literature)
;
Literatur
;
Moderne
;
Perversion
;
Erotik
;
Abweichendes Sexualverhalten
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 298 - 311
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