03724nam 2200613Ia 450 991078693500332120200520144314.00-231-52646-610.7312/fros15272(CKB)2670000000389667(EBL)1103413(OCoLC)852732344(SSID)ssj0000918551(PQKBManifestationID)12397474(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918551(PQKBWorkID)10908575(PQKB)10327468(StDuBDS)EDZ0000129977(MiAaPQ)EBC1103413(DE-B1597)458872(OCoLC)979909928(DE-B1597)9780231526463(Au-PeEL)EBL1103413(CaPaEBR)ebr10734259(CaONFJC)MIL562637(EXLCZ)99267000000038966720120926d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe problem with pleasure[electronic resource] modernism and its discontents /Laura FrostNew York Columbia University Pressc20131 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-15273-6 0-231-15272-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Repudiation of Pleasure -- 1 James Joyce and the Scent of Modernity -- 2 Stein's Tickle -- 3 Orgasmic Discipline -- 4 Huxley's Feelies -- 5 The Impasse of Pleasure -- 6 Blondes Have More Fun -- Coda -- Notes -- IndexAldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss.In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. She considers pop cultural phenomena and the rise of celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Gypsy Rose Lee against contemporary sociological, scientific, and philosophical writings on leisure and desire. Throughout her study, Frost incorporates recent scholarship on material and visual culture and vernacular modernism, recasting the period's high/low, elite/popular divides and formal strategies as efforts to regulate sensual and cerebral experience. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture.Modernism (Literature)Pleasure in literatureModernism (Literature)Pleasure in literature.809/.9112Frost Laura Catherine1967-1532577MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786935003321The problem with pleasure3778802UNINA