The Opposite of Desire

The Opposite of Desire
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 0739123386
ISBN-13 : 9780739123386
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Book Synopsis The Opposite of Desire by : Tonya Krouse

Download or read book The Opposite of Desire written by Tonya Krouse and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Opposite of Desire, Tonya Krouse argues that explicit depictions of sex and sexuality operate as central sites of modernist aesthetic experimentation. To explore the aesthetic repercussions of these scenes in the novels of Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce, Krouse resists the common critical approach of reading such representations through theories of desire, obscenity, or pornography. Instead, she examines these depictions in terms of "the opposite of desire," or pleasure, and this approach allows Krouse to historicize these novelists' preoccupations with entering into discourses on sex and sexuality." "Examining explicit representations of sex and sexuality in modernist novels, Krouse asserts that these scenes provide a lens through which to examine modernist aesthetic interests as well as the centrality of issues surrounding sex, sexuality, and gender in the modernist period. Approaching scenes of sex and sexuality with the aid of Michel Foucault's theories about sexual discourses, The Opposite of Desire thoroughly examines modernist attempts to put pleasure into representation."--BOOK JACKET.

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