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Sex Drives

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Description for Sex Drives Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.

Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?

Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487644
SKU
V9780801487644
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About Laura Frost
Laura Frost is Associate Professor of English at Yale University.

Reviews for Sex Drives
In her genuinely thought-provoking study Laura Frost chooses to examine Modernist writers who failed to succumb to fascist ideology, yet produced 'fictions of eroticized fascism.' The study is provocative and daring in the sense that there is an almost sheerly thematic link between the chosen authors.... I would also like to emphasize that the book will be an excellent teaching ... Read more

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