The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion

Daniel Fuchs

Published by Duke University Press 2011

The Limits of Ferocity

Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion

Daniel Fuchs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394112

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About this book

A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.

Author / Editor information

Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“The Limits of Ferocity is a fascinating and essential book for the student of modernity. Daniel Fuchs identifies one of the key strands in modernist thought and cultural behavior in this authoritative, intellectually sophisticated treatment of modernist outrage at the repressions and civilized limits implied in Freud’s theory of the superego, and of the anti-bourgeois attempts of many modernists to go beyond all such boundaries and limits through utopian sexual transcendence. This is interdisciplinary cultural/historical critique at its best.”—Gloria L. Cronin, author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow

“An epic achievement, The Limits of Ferocity is a significant contribution to the study of modern fiction and to psychoanalytic criticism. Daniel Fuchs yokes familiar writers and thinkers together in a new way, making us rethink their relationship.”—Andrew Gordon, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer

“At a time in which the American political environment could hardly be more extreme or polarized, Daniel Fuchs’s trenchant critique of modernist literary rebellion issues a resounding call for restored moderation, civility, and humanism in our cultural values and perspectives…. Sociological critique bows to Fuchs’s sensibility as a literary critic and his empathetic appreciation of the dynamic tensions of inner life as expressed by the literary imagination. That sensibility shines through in this supremely intelligent and humane book.”

-- Barbara Schapiro D.H. Lawrence Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. FREUD AND THE POSTWAR TEMPER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. FREUD AND OTHERS ON AGGRESSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. WILHELM REICH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. NORMAN O. BROWN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
5. DELEUZE AND GUATTARI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
[INTERCHAPTER]. DELEUZE AND GUATTARI ON LAWRENCE AND MILLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6. THE MARQUIS DE SADE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
7. D. H. LAWRENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8. GEORGES BATAILLE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
[INTERCHAPTER] BATAILLE ON SADE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
9. HENRY MILLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
[INTERCHAPTER] MILLER ON LAWRENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
10. NORMAN MAILER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
[INTERCHAPTER] MAILER ON MILLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
CONCLUSION. THE NAKED AND THE CLOTHED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 416

eBook

Published: May 30, 2011
ISBN: 9780822394112