Sade and the Narrative of Transgression

Name: Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
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ISBN: 9780521032315

ISBN-10: 0521032318

ISBN-13: 9780521032315

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Authors: David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts, Allen S. Weiss, Michael Sheringham

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This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his oeuvre, now made available to English-language readers for the first time. It focuses on several contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus that supports these operations, the ethical and political concerns that arise from them, and the problematic issues surrounding the conceptual closure of representation. Sade is placed at the center of current debates in literary and philosophical criticism, feminist and gender theory, aesthetics, rhetoric, and eighteenth-century French…

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List price: $41.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

David B. Allison is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology "The New Nietzsche."



List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The use value of D. A. F. Sade (An open letter to my current comrades)




Sade, or the philosopher-villain




Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski




A political minimalist




The Society of the Friends of Crime




Sade, mothers and other women




The encyclopedia of excess




'Sex', or, the misfortunes of literature




Structures of exchange, acts of transgression




Gender and narrative possibilities




Sade's literary space




Fantasizing Juliette



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Index