192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Physiology and Fantasy; Chapter 2 Sexuality at the Edge of the Abyss; Chapter 3 Erotic Sainthood and the Search for Self-Annihilation; Chapter 4 Two Sexual Lives, Entrepreneurial and Compulsive; Chapter 5 Sexuality and the Life Force; Chapter 6 Sexuality and Self-Fulfillment; Chapter 7 Performative Sex and the Values of a Consumerist Culture; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

Biography

Maurice Charney