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PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691113807
ISBN-139780691113807
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Number of Pages176 Pages
Publication NameTame Passions of Wilde : the Styles of Manageable Desire
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorJeff Nunokawa
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.7 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2002-029274
Reviews" Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wildes work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day."-- Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, " Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day." --Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, " Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day."-- Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day. -- Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, Tame Passionspresents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day. -- Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, " Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day." ---Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies, Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day.
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal828/.809
Table Of ContentACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: Oscar Wilde in Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homosexual 41 CHAPTER THREE: Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the Social Body Beautiful 54 CHAPTER FOUR: The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray 71 CHAPTER FIVE: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Anorexia: The Case of Oscar Wilde 90 CHAPTER SIX: Oscar Wilde and the Passion of the Eye 121 Index 161
SynopsisWhat if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. Assigning Wilde a place of honor in a heady company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and contemporary queer theory--Kant, Marx, Simmel, Weber, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Albert O. Hirschman, Erving Goffman, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and, of course, Michel Foucault--this is the first book to recognize Wilde not only as a blatant symptom of a familiar understanding of modern sexuality, but also as a grand theorist of the subject in his own right. The result is a wholly original portrait of the artist as a social critic who, in the midst of his humor, labored to illuminate and amend the book of love., Traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. This book assigns Wilde a place of honor in a company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and more.
LC Classification NumberPR5824.N86 2003
