K. Ohi

Innocence and Rapture

The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov. 2005 edition. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 226 Seiten
ISBN 1403969760
EAN 9781403969767
Veröffentlicht September 2005
Verlag/Hersteller Springer Nature Singapore

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Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.

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KEVIN OHI is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, USA.