Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticist experience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasures of self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave USA
ISBN-13
9781403969767
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94520987
Product Key Features
Book Title
Innocence and Rapture: the Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov
Author
K. OHI
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
226 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
430g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
K. OHI
Topic Area
Children & Family, Human Biology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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