Bodies at Risk: Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture) - Couverture souple

Neveldine, Robert Burns

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791436500 ISBN 13 : 9780791436509

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Taking a fundamentally post-psychoanalytical approach, Bodies at Risk links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of Romanticism, including subject formation, the disruptive effects of the human body, and the unique forms of textuality they enable through risky personal and artistic conflicts. Neveldine investigates how the body, designated as queer or otherwise, has placed itself at risk, such that it has questioned dominant notions of what it is to be a human subject in Western society, roughly since the time of the Romantics. Neveldine also explores how certain kinds of artistic conflicts have played themselves out in various texts in the Romantic period and postmodernism and what these conflicts have produced, both corporeally and textually. From Wordsworth's poem "Nutting" to Gregg Araki's film The Living End, from the Marquis de Sade's prose to the autobiographical fiction of Thomas Bernhard, the artifact radically interrogates our notions of textuality, setting aside forever its status as a mere imitation or representation, and becomes a testimony to the body's ability to resist oppression and create new types of human being.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Burns Neveldine earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, where he completed Bodies at Risk and taught as an instructor. He is currently at work on a book about Kurt Cobain, Lee Harvey Oswald, Alan Turing, and Gustav Mahler, as well as a long novel entitled Monster Zero.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791436500
• ISBN 13: 9780791436509
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
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• Personne responsable: non disponible