Counterpleasures
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Bibliographic Information
Counterpleasures
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1999
- : hc
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to leathersex. Each is placed in its cultural context to unfold a history of transgressive pleasure and to argue for the value and power of such pleasures as resistant to more totalizing forms of power.
Table of Contents
acknowledgments
introduction
a pleasure must be incredibly intense
part 1. the classic counterpleasures
1. the literary eroticization of the death drive
Sadism and Masochism as narrative structures
2. Sadism
3. Masochism
4. asceticism
seducing the divine
part 2. contemporary practices and pleasures
5. theoretical displacement
6. m-powerment
7. switch/hit
taking it from the top
8. unspeakable pleasures
love is a series of scars
notes
bibliography
index
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