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At the heart of European literary modernism lies a concern with the
erotic, and in particular with various forms of what Freud saw as
'sexual aberration', including sadism, masochism, homosexuality,
fetishism and necrophilia. Modernist Eroticisms explores the impact
of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual
perversion on the representation of the erotic in modernist
literature: writers whose work is discussed include Djuna Barnes,
Georges Bataille, Edouard Dujardin, Hans Henny Jahnn, Henry James,
James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Maurice Maeterlinck,
Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul
Valery, Frank Wedekind and Oscar Wilde. Taken together, the essays
in this volume explore not only the specificities of the modernist
writing of the erotic, but also its decisive role in the shift from
conceptions of sexual deviance to those of sexual difference.
The second half of the nineteenth and the early years of the
twentieth century saw a growing preoccupation with sexual
perversion: in particular homosexuality, sadism, masochism,
fetishism, voyeurism and exhibitionism. Charting the intellectual
history of the construction of the perversions in German, French
and English sexology in this period, Anna Schaffner explores the
decisive role played by literary representations of deviant
sexualities in the formation of sexological knowledge. Just as
sexologists, including Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Alfred Binet,
Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch and Sigmund Freud,
relied upon the literary, so major modernist writers such as
Georges Bataille, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and
Marcel Proust were in turn influenced by sexological conceptions.
Focusing on the interdisciplinary exchanges between literature and
sexology, Schaffner illuminates the pivotal role these modernists
played in re-evaluating the perversions and paving the way for the
transformation of the idea of sexual deviance into that of sexual
difference.
The second half of the nineteenth and the early years of the
twentieth century saw a growing preoccupation with sexual
perversion: in particular homosexuality, sadism, masochism,
fetishism, voyeurism and exhibitionism. Charting the intellectual
history of the construction of the perversions in German, French
and English sexology in this period, Anna Schaffnerexplores the
decisive role played by literary representations of deviant
sexualities in the formation of sexological knowledge. Just as
sexologists, including Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Alfred Binet,
Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch and Sigmund Freud,
relied upon the literary, so major modernist writers such as
Georges Bataille, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and
Marcel Proust were in turn influenced by sexological conceptions.
Focusing on the interdisciplinary exchanges between literature and
sexology, Schaffner illuminates the pivotal role these modernists
played in re-evaluating the perversions and paving the way for the
transformation of the idea of sexual deviance into that of sexual
difference
This volume explores the impact of sexological and early
psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the
representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major
European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust
and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of
the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn.
Work. It's the key to our daily survival and the source of
humankind's greatest achievements, from poetry to pyramids to
political systems. When we drastically change the way we work -- as
we did during the Industrial Revolution and as we're doing again in
the information age -- we set in motion forces that restructure
societies around the globe, alter basic human relationships, and
even transform our physical environment. This comprehensive
two-volume reference book is the first to analyze the central role
of work and the workforce in American life from the Industrial
Revolution through today's information economy. Drawing on a
variety of disciplines -- economics, public policy, law, human and
civil rights, cultural studies, and organizational psychology --
its 265 entries examine key events, ideas, institutions, and
individuals in labor history. They also tackle tough contemporary
questions that reflect the conflicts inherent in capitalism. What
is the impact of work on families and communities? On minority and
immigrant populations? How shall we respond to changing work roles
and the growing influence of the transnational corporation? Work in
America describes and evaluates attempts to address social and
class divisions -- affirmative action, occupational health and
safety, corporate management science, and trade unionism and
organized labor -- and offers the kind of comprehensive
understanding needed to discover workable solutions.
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