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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820799803321

Autore

Henaff Marcel

Titolo

Sade, the invention of the libertine body / / Marcel Henaff ; translated by Xavier Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8622-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

843.6

843/.6

Soggetti

Erotic literature, French - History and criticism

Libertines in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Translator's Note; Preface to the English Edition; Aftermath I: Continuation As Incipit; PART I: A Poetics; ONE: The Overthrow of the Lyric Body; TWO: Saying Everything, or the Encyclopedia of Excess; THREE: Libertine Apathy, or the Pleasures of Methodology; FOUR: The Imaginable and the Space of the Tableau; FIVE: Time Cut to Measure; PART II: An Economics; SIX: The Libertine Mode of Nonproduction; SEVEN: The Expenditures of the Body; EIGHT: Noncontractual Exchange; NINE: Woman, Prostitution, Narrative; Aftermath II: Continuation As Exit; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Decried as a misogynist and pornographer, imprisoned for debauchery and for his writings, there is scarcely a cultural figure as flamboyant and controversial as the Marquis de Sade, the father of the new libertine body. But this is not the only way to see Sade. In this long-awaited English translation, Hénaff says that Sade should be discussed less for the sensual heat of his writing and more for the larger poetic and economic model his work represents.