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Sex in literature. --- Sadomasochism in literature.

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Jean-Luc Nancy reprend ici le fil d'un échange avec Mathilde Girard au cours duquel la question du mythe s'impose comme enjeu dès que l'on parle soi-même de soi. Revenant sur son expérience de vie et d'écriture avec Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, et traversant à nouveau certains territoires de pensée qu'ils ont ensemble parcourus (le romantisme, le théâtre, la mimesis, la psychanalyse, la littérature et la politique), Jean-Luc Nancy pose un regard auquel l'après-coup donne une épaisseur qui révèle ce qui était engagé à travers le mythe, ce qu'il permettait alors d'articuler. La force du geste autobiographique relance la question, et ouvre ainsi du mythe une nouvelle définition - une seconde vie - à partir d'une pensée d'un soi à l'oeuvre dans sa façon de dire proprement ce qu'il est : jamais fermé, jamais fini

Myth --- Myth in literature

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Franz Anton Mesmer's concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the hypnotic trance, Mesmer made his real contribution and took the first, decisive steps on the road leading to the unconscious. While most critical studies of mesmerism originate in the history of science or medicine, Maria Tatar's book takes a fresh approach by tracing the impact of mesmerism on literature. The author launches her account with a portrait of Mesmer and places his views in the context of eighteenth-century thought. She then explores the significance of Mesmer's ideas and studies their influence on nineteenth-century German, French, and American writers. In conclusion, she examines the ways in which modern authors absorbed and reshaped the mesmerist legacy bequeathed to them by earlier generations. Whether discussing the electrical energy vibrating through Kleist's dramas, the electrical heat radiating from Hoffmann's figures, the streams of magnetic fluid coursing through Balzac's novels, or the magnetic chain of humanity linking Hawthorne's characters, Professor Tatar recaptures the meaning of ideas, motifs, and metaphors often overlooked by literary critics. Her study illuminates, in a remarkable way, the subtle connections between science, psychology, and literature.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mesmerism in literature.

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As the title indicates, three themes of perpetual interest in contemporary cultural studies - place, identity, and nationality - converge in this critical essay collection. While proffering varied and sometimes clashing arguments concerning the title themes, the essays and their authors all assert the importance of the creative text in defining, contesting, and understanding place, identity, and nationality in the modern and contemporary globalised world. The critical frameworks of these essays grow out of the groundbreaking literary and cultural studies theory of the past two decades. However

National characteristics in literature.

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Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human - thought undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the'horror of philosophy'trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.

Horror in literature --- Metaphysics