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Sade and the Narrative of Transgression

By David B. Allison , Mark S. Roberts , Allen S. Weiss

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521444152, 9780521444156, 0521032318, 9780521032315, 9780511519413
LCC
PQ2063.S3 S153 1995
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5499709 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Pages
288\287
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his oeuvre, now made available to English-language readers for the first time. It focuses on several contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus that supports these operations, the ethical and political concerns that arise from them, and the problematic issues surrounding the conceptual closure of representation. Sade is placed at the center of current debates in literary and philosophical criticism, feminist and gender theory, aesthetics, rhetoric, and eighteenth-century French cultural history.

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