Resisting Nudities

A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism

von Florence Dee Boodakian

104 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resisting nude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820486147
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2008
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York