Intimate Relations: Aesthetics and Theories of Sexuality around 1968

Christine Weder

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Intimate Relations

Aesthetics and Theories of Sexuality around 1968

Christine Weder
Translated by: Robert Vilain

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 241 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968

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Weder Christine :

CHRISTINE WEDER is Professor in Modern German Literature at the University of Geneva.Vilain Robert :

ROBERT VILAIN is Senior Tutor and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, and Lecturer in German at Christ Church.

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Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Translator’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Stories of Ars and Eros Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
The Relation of Parts I and II of This Book: Liaisons stimulantes Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiii
Part I The Aesthetic Ambitions of Sexual Theories
Introduction to Part I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1: Literature as an Aid for Sexual Liberation: Wilhelm Reich’s Art of Manipulation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2: Literature as an Attractive Reminder of a Pleasurable Future: The Orientation of the New Sexuality towards Art in the Work of Herbert Marcuse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3: Sex Front, or The Ironic Art of Enlightenment: Sexuality as Pop Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Conclusion to Part I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Part II Sexual Obsessions in Aesthetics
Introduction to Part II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4: Stimulating Dissolution of Boundaries: The Literary History of the Obscene and Ludwig Marcuse’s Program of Writing “Without a Safety Helmet” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5: Art or Pornography? For and against Contemporary Literature in the “Zurich Literature Controversy” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
6: Exclusive vs Popularizing Dissolution of Boundaries: Pro-Pornography as a Model Example of Extreme Literature (Susan Sontag) or of Mass Culture (Leslie A. Fiedler) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7: Potentiated Dialectics: The Obscene as a Formal Principle of Anti-Pornographic Art in the Work of Peter Gorsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
8: The Orgasm as a Model of Aesthetic Experience and the Masochistic Pleasure of Modern Art in the Work of Theodor W. Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
9: “Le plaisir en pièces; la langue en pièces”: Erotic Fragments of a Theory of Textual Eroticism in the Work of Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Conclusion to Part II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

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June 25, 2024

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9781800109544

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Camden House

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348

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14 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800109544

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liberation; contraception; autonomy; representation; media; psychoanalysis; sensuality; desire; semiotics; literary studies; obscenity; oppression; pornography

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