Society of pleasures : interdisciplinary readings in pleasure and power during the reign of Louis XIV
Kathryn A. Hoffmann
Bok · Engelsk · 1997
| Utgitt | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillian , 1997
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| Omfang | XIII, 240 s.
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| Opplysninger | Har bibliografi.. - Acknowledgments Note on Quotations and Translations On the Notes Introduction...Page 1 I - Spectacle of Power, Harems of Language...Page 11 - 1 - Sun-Eye and Medusa-Head: Louis XIV's Memories...Page 13 - 2 - The Doors of the Seraglio: Racine's Bajazet...Page 41 II - Pathways of Pleasure...Page 61 - 3 - Between the Sacred and the Profane: Moliere's Dom Juan...Page 63 - 4 - Alchemy of Desire: The Bourgeoisie in the Festival...Page 81 III - Of Fasts, Feasts and Palimpsests...Page 97 - 5 - Writ(h)ing on the Belly: Pascal's Provinciales...Page 99 - 6 - Of Chocolate and Lexicography...Page 111 IV - The Body Decays...Page 127 - 7 - A Distraught Apollo: Rupturing the Heroic, Writing Praise...Page 129 - 8 - The Death of the Spectacle Body: Epitaphs and Political Erotica...Page 147 Conclusion...Page 165 Notes...Page 171 Works Cited...Page 223 Index...Page 237. - In the days of Louis XIV, the experience of pleasure was as much a social and political tool as an essential ingredient in personal life. From the Memories of Louis XIV comes the term "society of pleasures" to describe the masses who lived under Louis's rule, the collective body that became enthralled in the trances of pleasure and thus secured within the bonds of regal power. Kathryn Hoffmann, in an interdisciplinary volume, explores this society by studying the strange couplings of pleasure, power, and knowledge that took shape within it. Across tales of harems and figs, narratives on chocolate and secret histories, she analyzes the politics of pleasure and knowledge arising in notions of public rights, conundrums of aesthetics, and the politics of erotics. In so doing, Hoffmann reveals that the society of pleasures was not law, or policy, or an exact procedure of totalizing power, but a state and a people where the logic of pleasure always contained the trap of violent oppression; a place where desire and force, the caress and the grip, informed and fed upon each other. A unique work that manages to intertwine both canonical literary works and documents from the margins of history, philosophy, and gastronomy, Society of Pleasures locates the passions and essence of a legendary society and traces the routes to the modern in the fissures of an absolutist dream.
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| Emner | Ludvig 14 , konge av Frankrike , 1638-1715
Pleasure in literature Politics and culture - History - France Power (Social sciences) in literature Vis mer... politikk historie kultur
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| ISBN | 0333720288. - 9780333720288
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