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  1. Playing with Desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Fred B.
    Published: [2016]; © 1998
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  2. Playing with Desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Frederic B.
    Published: [2016]; ©1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources (especially Ovid), performance history, and social history to demonstrate the centrality of the Tantalus myth to Marlowe?s imagination. more

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    Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources (especially Ovid), performance history, and social history to demonstrate the centrality of the Tantalus myth to Marlowe?s imagination.

     
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    ISBN: 9781442678545
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    Subjects: Teasing in literature; Drama; Aggressiveness in literature; Control (Psychology) in literature; Control (Psychology) in literature; Drama; Teasing in literature; Aggressiveness in literature; Aggressiveness in literature.; Control (Psychology) in literature.; Drama.; Teasing in literature.
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- A Note on Texts -- -- Introduction -- -- 1. Marlowe and the Torment of Tantalus -- -- 2. Translation as Template: All Ovid's Elegies -- -- 3. Playing with the Powerless: Dido Queen of Carthage -- -- 4. The Conqueror's and the Playwright's Games: Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two -- -- 5. Playing with Avarice: The Jew of Malta -- -- 6. The Play of History and Desire: Edward II -- -- 7. Damnation as Tantalization: Doctor Faustus -- -- 8. Frustrating the Story of Desire: Hero and Leander -- -- Afterword -- -- Notes -- -- Works Cited -- -- Index
  3. Playing with desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Fred B.
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto [u.a.]

    "Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to... more

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    "Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence. The author identifies this desire with the sadistic irony of the Tantalus myth rather than with the sublime tragedy exemplified by the familiar figure of Icarus. Thus, Marlowe's characteristic mis en scene is moved from the heavens to the netherworld. Tromly also demonstrates that the manipulations of desire among Marlowe's characters find close parallels in the strategies by which his works tantalize and frustrate their audiences."--BOOK JACKET.

     
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  4. Playing with desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Frederic B.
    Published: 1998; © 1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England]

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    Subjects: Teasing in literature; Aggressiveness in literature; Control (Psychology) in literature; Drama; Desire in literature; Sadism in literature; Play in literature; Sex in literature; Begierde <Motiv>; Begierde
    Other subjects: Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
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  5. Playing with Desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Fred B.
    Published: [2016]; © 1998
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    Other subjects: Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
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    Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources (especially Ovid), performance history, and social history to demonstrate the centrality of the Tantalus myth to Marlowe?s imagination
  6. Playing with desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization
    Author: Tromly, Frederic B.
    Published: c1998
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    ISBN: 0802043550; 1442678542; 9780802043559; 9781442678545
    Subjects: Désir dans la littérature; Taquineries dans la littérature; Wensen; Sadisme; Toneelstukken; Engels; Begierde <Motiv>; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Aggressiveness in literature; Control (Psychology) in literature; Desire in literature; Drama / Psychological aspects; Play in literature; Psychology; Sadism in literature; Sex in literature; Teasing in literature; Drama; Englisch; Psychologie; Wissen; Teasing in literature; Aggressiveness in literature; Control (Psychology) in literature; Drama; Desire in literature; Sadism in literature; Play in literature; Sex in literature; Begierde; Begierde <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Marlowe, Christopher / 1564-1593 / Critique et interprétation; Marlowe, Christopher; Marlowe, Christopher / 1564-1593; Marlowe, Christopher / 1564-1593; Marlowe, Christopher; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
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    Marlowe and the torment of Tantalus -- Translation as template: all of Ovid's Elegies -- Playing with the powerless: Dido Queen of Carthage -- The conquerer's and the playwright's games: Tamburlaine the Great, part one and part two -- Playing with avarice: The Jew of Malta -- The play of history and desire: Edward II -- Damnation as tantalization: Doctor Faustus -- Frustrating the story of desire: Hero and Leander

    "Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence. The author identifies this desire with the sadistic irony of the Tantalus myth rather than with the sublime tragedy exemplified by the familiar figure of Icarus. Thus, Marlowe's characteristic mis en scene is moved from the heavens to the netherworld. Tromly also demonstrates that the manipulations of desire among Marlowe's characters find close parallels in the strategies by which his works tantalize and frustrate their audiences."--Jacket
  7. Playing with desire
    Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to... more

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    "Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence. The author identifies this desire with the sadistic irony of the Tantalus myth rather than with the sublime tragedy exemplified by the familiar figure of Icarus. Thus, Marlowe's characteristic mis en scene is moved from the heavens to the netherworld. Tromly also demonstrates that the manipulations of desire among Marlowe's characters find close parallels in the strategies by which his works tantalize and frustrate their audiences."--Jacket

     
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  8. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
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    ISBN: 9781623568108
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    Subjects: American literature; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); Verlangen; Glück <Motiv>; Materialismus <Motiv>; Horizont <Motiv>; Literatur
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  9. American Tantalus
    Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2016
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    American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists,... more

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    American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form.

     
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    Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
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  10. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
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    Subjects: American literature / History and criticism; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Desire in literature; Material culture in literature; Modernism (Literature) / United States; National characteristics, American, in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Teasing in literature
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  11. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York [u.a.]

    Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Do Not Touch 1. Of Horizons and Happiness: Untouchable Objects in Leading US Myth 2. The Becoming Blank: Fantasies of Invisibility after the Frontier 3. Play Things: Toys at the Edge of Whiteness 4.... more

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    Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Do Not Touch 1. Of Horizons and Happiness: Untouchable Objects in Leading US Myth 2. The Becoming Blank: Fantasies of Invisibility after the Frontier 3. Play Things: Toys at the Edge of Whiteness 4. Of Cars and Hotels: The Compensations of Destructive Consumption. Conclusion: After American Tantalus

     
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  12. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists,... more

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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form."-- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Do Not Touch 1. Of Horizons and Happiness: Untouchable Objects in Leading US Myth 2. The Becoming Blank: Fantasies of Invisibility after the Frontier 3. Play Things: Toys at the Edge of Whiteness 4. Of Cars and Hotels: The Compensations of Destructive Consumption. Conclusion: After American Tantalus.

     
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    Subjects: National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); Consumption (Economics) in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Teasing in literature; Desire in literature; American literature; Material culture in literature
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index
  13. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York

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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"..

     
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  14. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York NY [u.a.]

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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"-- "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781623561079
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    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: American literature; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); American literature; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Desire in literature; Material culture in literature; Modernism (Literature); National characteristics, American, in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Teasing in literature
    Scope: 193 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index

    Machine generated contents note:Introduction: Do Not Touch 1. Of Horizons and Happiness: Untouchable Objects in Leading US Myth 2. The Becoming Blank: Fantasies of Invisibility after the Frontier 3. Play Things: Toys at the Edge of Whiteness 4. Of Cars and Hotels: The Compensations of Destructive Consumption. Conclusion: After American Tantalus
  15. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"..

     
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  16. Playing with desire
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  17. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"-- "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781623561079
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1520
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: American literature; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); American literature; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Desire in literature; Material culture in literature; Modernism (Literature); National characteristics, American, in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Teasing in literature
    Scope: 193 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index

    Machine generated contents note:Introduction: Do Not Touch 1. Of Horizons and Happiness: Untouchable Objects in Leading US Myth 2. The Becoming Blank: Fantasies of Invisibility after the Frontier 3. Play Things: Toys at the Edge of Whiteness 4. Of Cars and Hotels: The Compensations of Destructive Consumption. Conclusion: After American Tantalus
  18. American tantalus
    horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
    Author: Warnes, Andrew
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

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    "American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form"-- A bigger plaything4 Necessary Torments; Pedal point blues; Having it all; Hotel Tantalus; Victims of leisure; ConclusionBeyond Fetishism; The electric spark; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; IntroductionDo Not Touch; Somewhere different; "The Everlasting Itch"; 1 Perpetual PursuitsHappiness, Horizons, and Other Elusive Objects in Modern US Culture; The land outside; Uninhabitable perfection; Tantalization: Uses and abuses; "A Country of Sunsets"; Happiness on the horizon; 2 The Becoming Blank; Looking for America; Strategies of blankness; Looking for Venice; Haunting Yosemite; 3 Play ThingsToys at the Edge of Whiteness; Harlem Tantalus; On the Edge; The ornamental toy; Lorain iconoclast.

     
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