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Innocence and Rapture : The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / by K. Ohi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ohi, Kevin, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Social groups.
- Literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Literary Theory.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611363994
- 9781281363992
- 1281363995
- 9781403978554
- 1403978557
- OCLC:
- 560535267
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