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Obscene Fantasies: Elfriede Jelinek’s Generic Perversions

✍ Scribed by Brenda Bethman

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
151
Series
Austrian Culture
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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 fantasies» that lie at its heart. This book argues that the disruption of genres is one of Jelinek’s most significant literary contributions, with her works functioning to create a «negative aesthetics» as opposed to a positive reworking of generic forms.

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