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- catalog abstract ""Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by "perverse" desires. This perversity arises from the failure of symbolic satisfactions - love, work, success - to make us happy, and from our refusal to accept that failure. Hoping to achieve satisfaction, we respond ultimately to situations that evoke older, more primary drives and their attendant emotions. But while a conventional pervert knows exactly what to want, the healthy pervert must find enjoyment inadvertently: in the abject or the sublime, in duty and reason, and in the obligations of a "fun morality." Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways that longings are linked to social forces."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10717675.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by "perverse" desires. This perversity arises from the failure of symbolic satisfactions - love, work, success - to make us happy, and from our refusal to accept that failure. Hoping to achieve satisfaction, we respond ultimately to situations that evoke older, more primary drives and their attendant emotions. But while a conventional pervert knows exactly what to want, the healthy pervert must find enjoyment inadvertently: in the abject or the sublime, in duty and reason, and in the obligations of a "fun morality." Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways that longings are linked to social forces."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: The Problem with Pleasure -- 2. The Sublime Community -- 3. Re-Poe Man: Poe's Un-American Sublime -- 4. "Too Resurgent": Liquidity and Consumption in Henry James -- 5. Alphabetic Pleasures: The Names -- 6. J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Senses: Perversion and the Failure of Authority -- 7. Fatal West: W.S. Burrough's Perverse Destiny -- 8. Conclusion: Agency in the Perverse.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 180 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "052158437X".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [112]".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/353 21".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, American.".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Desire in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS169.S84 F67 1997".
- catalog subject "Pleasure in literature.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "Sublime, The, in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: The Problem with Pleasure -- 2. The Sublime Community -- 3. Re-Poe Man: Poe's Un-American Sublime -- 4. "Too Resurgent": Liquidity and Consumption in Henry James -- 5. Alphabetic Pleasures: The Names -- 6. J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Senses: Perversion and the Failure of Authority -- 7. Fatal West: W.S. Burrough's Perverse Destiny -- 8. Conclusion: Agency in the Perverse.".
- catalog title "Sublime enjoyment : on the perverse motive in American literature / Dennis A. Foster.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".