Resisting Nudities

A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism

Florence Dee Boodakian (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2008 | 2nd Revised edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-8614-7 (ISBN)

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This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resisting nude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments.

The Author: Florence Dee Boodakian has a Ph.D. in modern British literature from New York University and currently teaches English literature and human rights studies at SUNY Nassau. She is the author of Tormenting Angel: A Psychoaesthetic Theory of Imagination (Peter Lang, 1999).

«In her well documented book, both cultural and philosophical, Dr Boodakian warns us against the danger of a society of auto-surveillance, a coded society where the individual has gradually and naturally internalised rules which make freedom an illusion, depriving him/her of being a ‘subject’ in the unknown (and rich) land of eroticism. In addition, she guides us with great panache towards this no man’s land of the unconscious which separates the Erotic from Porn.» (Isabelle Pagot-Votelet, Professor at the IAV d’Orleans (Institute of Visual Arts) and at the Sefco, University of Orleans, France)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-8614-0 / 0820486140
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-8614-7 / 9780820486147
Zustand	Neuware