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- catalog abstract "Obsession and Culture proposes that male sexual obsessions are the driving force of culture and are most clearly seen in fiction. Examples could be multiplied many times, but the main objectives of this study are to show how the work of five male authors coheres within a framework of psychodynamic theory and to stimulate enquiry along these lines. Many twentieth-century novelists speak for a male psycho-class needing imaginative externalization of obsessive sexual fantasies of control of women. Attraction, avoidance, and guilt are powerful motivators for writers and readers alike, and the moral ambiguity of serial monogamy, as well as other forms of exploitative sexuality, prompt certain writers to construct symbolic expiation and repair in fiction. Psychobiography is combined with fantasy analysis to suggest the pervasiveness in modern fiction of the wish to conquer and to control women and to atone for the guilt.".
- catalog contributor b9587886.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The obsessive imagination in writers -- H.G. Wells: The confessions of a sexual rebel -- Herman Hesse and bisexuality -- Love and death in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita : a fantasy analysis of an obsession -- Female sacrifice in the novels of John Fowles -- Eros and death in John Updike's fiction -- Obsession: The driving force of culture.".
- catalog description "Obsession and Culture proposes that male sexual obsessions are the driving force of culture and are most clearly seen in fiction. Examples could be multiplied many times, but the main objectives of this study are to show how the work of five male authors coheres within a framework of psychodynamic theory and to stimulate enquiry along these lines. Many twentieth-century novelists speak for a male psycho-class needing imaginative externalization of obsessive sexual fantasies of control of women. Attraction, avoidance, and guilt are powerful motivators for writers and readers alike, and the moral ambiguity of serial monogamy, as well as other forms of exploitative sexuality, prompt certain writers to construct symbolic expiation and repair in fiction. Psychobiography is combined with fantasy analysis to suggest the pervasiveness in modern fiction of the wish to conquer and to control women and to atone for the guilt.".
- catalog extent "254 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Obsession and culture.".
- catalog identifier "0838635962 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Obsession and culture.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Obsession and culture.".
- catalog subject "823/.9109353 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Male authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Man-woman relationships in literature.".
- catalog subject "Men in literature.".
- catalog subject "Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR888.O28 B75 1995".
- catalog subject "Sex addiction in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The obsessive imagination in writers -- H.G. Wells: The confessions of a sexual rebel -- Herman Hesse and bisexuality -- Love and death in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita : a fantasy analysis of an obsession -- Female sacrifice in the novels of John Fowles -- Eros and death in John Updike's fiction -- Obsession: The driving force of culture.".
- catalog title "Obsession and culture : a study of sexual obsession in modern fiction / Andrew Brink.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".