Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade

Lucienne Frappier-Mazur

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1996

Writing the Orgy

Power and Parody in Sade

Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
Translated by: Gillian C. Gill

In the series Anniversary Collection

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801798

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Writing the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade's writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from anthropology, history, and psychoanalysis, the book is a brilliant feminist reading of a text--The Story of Julliete--often characterized as brutally aggressive and pornographic.

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"Writing the Orgy is particularly important not merely for recognizing the pertinence of Sade to current issues in feminism, but also for proposing a reading of Sade that suggests the inadequacy of either simple affirmation or repudiation. This is a very fine book that will have an important presence as an example of the possibility of combining considerable sophistication about language with the inflections of cultural studies."--Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Erotic Body, Social Body: Disorder and Ritual
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Chapter 1. Indistinction and the Hybrid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. An Ordered Indistinction: The Protocol of the Orgy and the Reduction of the Feminine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 3. The Hierarchy of the Orgy: The Power and the Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Part 2. Body, Text, Parody
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 4. Repetition and Writing, Imaginary and Simulacrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5. Themes and Motifs: Inverting and Diverting Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 6. Voicing the Hybrid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter 7. Figures of the Text: Parody and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Conclusion: Which Sade? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

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Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512801798