Masochism: The Art of Power - Hardcover

Mansfield, Nick; Unknown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275957020 ISBN 13: 9780275957025

Publisher: Praeger, 1997

Synopsis

Masochism Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy and cultural theory, this text challenges fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era. It features the writings of Freud, Sartre, Proust, Genet and Focault. Full description

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Review:

?Through an investigation of key modernist texts such as Joyce's Ulysses, Bataille's Story of the Eye, and Genet's Miracle of the Rose, [Mansfield] shows how masochism eludes the binary opposition of the submissive to the dominant.... The author warns the postmodernist not to become entangled in the self/Other game because the masochist's power is simultaneously the center and its circumference, a theatrical space of power indifferent to the oppressive hierarchies operating in the culture. A vaulable book for students and scholars of literary theory, sexuality, and modern culture.?-Choice

"Through an investigation of key modernist texts such as Joyce's Ulysses, Bataille's Story of the Eye, and Genet's Miracle of the Rose, [Mansfield] shows how masochism eludes the binary opposition of the submissive to the dominant.... The author warns the postmodernist not to become entangled in the self/Other game because the masochist's power is simultaneously the center and its circumference, a theatrical space of power indifferent to the oppressive hierarchies operating in the culture. A vaulable book for students and scholars of literary theory, sexuality, and modern culture."-Choice

From the Back Cover:

How does the male masochist provide a metaphor for modern and postmodern power? Present orthodoxy understands masculine power as invested in unity, identity, presence and technology. In this provocative work, however, Mansfield challenges our fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era. Utilizing representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy and cultural theory, the author argues that masculine power can now best be understood as masochistic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0275957020
• ISBN 13: 9780275957025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 126