«Obscene Fantasies»
Elfriede Jelinek’s Generic Perversions
©2012
Monographs
XII,
136 Pages
Series:
Austrian Culture, Volume 44
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 136
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453902455
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433110603
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0245-5
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (February)
- Keywords
- "Elfriede Jelinek feminism" Elfriede Jelinek genre perversion sublimation Austrian literature feminism
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XII, 136 pp.
