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Masochism The Art of Power
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Nick Mansfield
Book Code: C5702
ISBN: 0-275-95702-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95702-5
128 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1997
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Through an investigation of key modernist texts such as Joyce's Ulysses, Bataille's Story of the Eye, and Genet's Miracle of the Rose, [Mansfield] shows how masochism eludes the binary opposition of the submissive to the dominant.... The author warns the postmodernist not to become entangled in the self/Other game because the masochist's power is simultaneously the center and its circumference, a theatrical space of power indifferent to the oppressive hierarchies operating in the culture. A vaulable book for students and scholars of literary theory, sexuality, and modern culture.
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Description: How does the male masochist provide a metaphor for modern and postmodern power? Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy, and cultural theory, Mansfield challenges our fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era, arguing that masculine power has become masochistic. In the later twentieth century, the author argues, power presents itself as powerlessness but this deconstruction of traditional masculine authority does not result in a diminution of power. This provocative account traces masochism through the writings of Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch, Freud, Sartre, Proust, Genet, and Foucault.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Masochism and Modernity: A Genealogy
  • Masochism and the Sublime
  • Masochism and the Total Subject
  • The Negative Side of Transgression
  • Masochism as Cultural Meaning
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 96-26279
LCC Class: PN56
Dewey Class: 809
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