The Resource The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents, Laura Frost
The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents, Laura Frost
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The item The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents, Laura Frost represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Aldous Huxley decried 'the horrors of modern "pleasure, "' or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. She considers pop cultural phenomena and the rise of celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Gypsy Rose Lee against contemporary sociological, scientific, and philosophical writings on leisure and desire. Throughout her study, Frost incorporates recent scholarship on material and visual culture and vernacular modernism, recasting the period's high/low, elite/popular divides and formal strategies as efforts to regulate sensual and cerebral experience. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Contents
-
- Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure
- James Joyce and the scent of modernity
- Stein's tickle
- Orgasmi discipline: D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction
- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world
- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys
- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema
- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure
- Isbn
- 9781306313865
- Label
- The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents
- Title
- The problem with pleasure
- Title remainder
- modernism and its discontents
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Frost
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Aldous Huxley decried 'the horrors of modern "pleasure, "' or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. She considers pop cultural phenomena and the rise of celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Gypsy Rose Lee against contemporary sociological, scientific, and philosophical writings on leisure and desire. Throughout her study, Frost incorporates recent scholarship on material and visual culture and vernacular modernism, recasting the period's high/low, elite/popular divides and formal strategies as efforts to regulate sensual and cerebral experience. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Frost, Laura Catherine
- Dewey number
- 809/.9112
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- LC call number
- PN56.M54
- LC item number
- F76 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- NONE
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Modernism (Literature)
- Pleasure in literature
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- Modernism (Literature)
- Pleasure in literature
- Label
- The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents, Laura Frost
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure -- James Joyce and the scent of modernity -- Stein's tickle -- Orgasmi discipline: D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction -- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world -- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys -- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema -- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure
- Control code
- 852732344
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781306313865
- Lccn
- 2012036521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
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- 10.7312/fros15272
- ebc1103413
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt3cmb3h
- f345c3a3-73dc-4b9e-8d45-d7324ea5fe76
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852732344
- Label
- The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents, Laura Frost
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure -- James Joyce and the scent of modernity -- Stein's tickle -- Orgasmi discipline: D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction -- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world -- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys -- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema -- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure
- Control code
- 852732344
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781306313865
- Lccn
- 2012036521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
-
- 10.7312/fros15272
- ebc1103413
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt3cmb3h
- f345c3a3-73dc-4b9e-8d45-d7324ea5fe76
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852732344
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