Innocence and rapture : the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / / Kevin Ohi
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| Autore: |
Ohi Kevin <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Innocence and rapture : the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / / Kevin Ohi
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9353809034 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Children and erotica | |
| Art for art's sake (Movement) | |
| American literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Children in literature | |
| Aestheticism (Literature) | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Innocence and rapture |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36399-5 |
| 9786611363994 | |
| 1-4039-7855-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816943303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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