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  1. Tame passions of Wilde
    the styles of manageable desire
    Author: Nunokawa, Jeff
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    What 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... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    What 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 q.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400825653; 1400825652; 9780691113791; 0691113793; 9780691113807; 0691113807
    RVK Categories: HL 4865
    Subjects: Homosexualität; Literarischer Stil
    Other subjects: Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Tame Passions of Wilde
    The Styles of Manageable Desire
    Author: Nunokawa, Jeff
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    What 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... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    What 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 cont

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691113807
    Scope: Online-Ressource (173 p)
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    CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: Oscar Wilde in Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homosexual; CHAPTER THREE: Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the Social Body Beautiful; CHAPTER FOUR: The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray; CHAPTER FIVE: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Anorexia: The Case of Oscar Wilde; CHAPTER SIX: Oscar Wilde and the Passion of the Eye; INDEX