Obscene Fantasies: Elfriede Jelinek’s Generic Perversions
Brenda Bethman
This book examines Elfriede Jelinek’s investigation of Austria’s and Western Europe’s «obscene fantasies» through her «perversion» of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central psychoanalytic concept (alienation, jouissance, perversion, and sublimation) and reads a Jelinek text in relation to the genre that it is perverting, exposing the «obscene fantasies» that lie at its heart. This book argues that the disruption of genres is one of Jelinek’s most significant literary contributions, with her works functioning to create a «negative aesthetics» as opposed to a positive reworking of generic forms.
الفئات:
عام:
2011
الناشر:
Peter Lang
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
136
ISBN 10:
1433110601
ISBN 13:
9781433110603
سلسلة الكتب:
Austrian Culture
ملف:
PDF, 1.22 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011