«Obscene Fantasies»: Elfriede Jelinek's Generic Perversions

by Brenda Bethman

This book examines Elfriede Jelinek's investigation of Austria's and Western Europe's obscene fantasies through her perversion of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central psychoanalytic concept (alienation, jouissance, perversion, and sublimation) and reads a Jelinek text in relation to the genre that it is perverting, exposing the obscene...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433110601
• ISBN13: 9781433110603
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"