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• Introduction
• Dancing on the threshold: Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics
• "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome
• Perverts in court: Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial
• Alla Nazimova's Salome: an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde
• Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon: Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.

Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salome has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salome as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salome marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salome are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarme, Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
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• Klasycy perwersji Perwersja: literacki obiekt pożądania / Daniel Kalinowski
• Negacja jednostki jako konsekwencja Sadycznej koncepcji suwerenności / Wojciech Betkało
• Demoniczne kobiety Leopolda von Sachera-Masocha / Edyta Foltyn
• Literackie przecięcia oka w ujęciu teorii psychoanalitycznych / Mariusz Wirski
• Kontury i kontrasty perwersji sadomasochistyczne interpretacje i reinterpretacje Burzy Williama Szekspira / Wojciech Bryszewski
• O obsesyjnej namiętności na przykładzie Lolity Vladimira Nabokova / Aleksandra Malwina Mukaj
• Pogranicza perwersji: "świat odwrócony" w prozie Jerzego Kosińskiego i Piotra Rawicza / Anna Ciarkowska
• Rytualne perwersje w utworach Iana McEwana / Adam Aleksandrowicz
• Homoerotyzm traktowany jako perwersja w twórczości Michała Choromańskiego / Przemysław Czaja
• Eksperymenty medyczne jako perwersja w literackiej przestrzeni szpitala psychiatrycznego
• "Zapłodnił ją uderzeniem i poczęła": o perwersyjnych dziewczynkach Urszuli Małgorzatky Benki / Aleksandra Pawlik.

Submission guidelines call for "transgressive works dealing with madness, sex, death, disease, and the like; the clash of archaic with modern day; archetype, symbolism, Surrealism, philosophy, physics, existential and postmodern flavoring; experimental or flagrantly textured language; alternative poetry; alternative poetry in classical form; intense crafting of language from the writer's writer."

If, in fact, "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her [step]mother forty whacks, " why (from a representational standpoint) did her stepmother deserve it? If older gay men in Internet chat rooms regularly provide much-needed acceptance and advice to younger gay males during the coming-out process, how is it that they continually reinforce racist ideologies and powerless subjectivities while doing so? What sorts of media images are commonly presented of individuals and groups that are regarded as being deviant in society, and whose interests do they ultimately serve? The answers to these important questions and many others are provided in the pages of Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations, which explores provocative representations of deviance in various media forms-including books, films, musical offerings, news accounts, television programs, and Internet sites-and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for the lived realities of individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles. The eye-opening chapters of this book enable readers to more fully realize the regularity with which media representations continuously contribute, in powerful ways, to the formation and perpetuation of influential social constructions of deviance and otherness as they pertain to delinquents, criminals, and individuals of all ages, classes, genders, races, sexual orientations, and health/(dis)ability statuses. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is a thought-provoking anthology that offers fresh insight and new approaches to critically analyzing social constructions of deviancy across a variety of media forms. While scholars have long examined the relationship between media and deviancy, this collection of essays features a range of theoretical perspectives through which to investigate deviancy and its various interpretations in original ways. In the process, it deepens our understanding of how deviancy has been constructed across time and in differing social/cultural milieus. The essays in this anthology reflect the diverse disciplines of their contributing scholars. At the same time, the anthology does not waver from its clear focus on deviancy, lending it substantial coherence and readability. The book is expertly structured and edited. Each of the essays draws inspiration from a refreshing variety of sources and fields of study. The anthology is accordingly divided into six distinct yet related sections that mark its coherence and readability. Simultaneously, the essays within each section are quite different from one another, allowing the reader to make thought-provoking connections between representations of deviancy both within sections and among them. Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an important text. Considering the growth of new media forms, its investigation of both old and new media in relation to social constructions of deviancy represents a timely and topical contribution to the field of media and cultural studies. Given its breadth and scope, the anthology represents a highly significant scholarly contribution that will greatly benefit scholars, students, and interested individuals of all levels. It offers eye-opening insights to anyone with an interest in cultural studies, disease and disability studies, film and television studies, LGBT studies, criminal justice, sociology, and related fields." Brief Reviewer Bio: Metasebia Woldemariam, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Plymouth State University who specializes in media representations of deviancy and otherness. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an erudite collection offering critical and cultural analysis of media representations within various media forms, including journalism, film, documentary, television, fiction, music, and the Internet. The book is divided into six sections that highlight the categories of deviance and otherness the contributors emphasize: (1) Age; (2) Crime and Criminals; (3) Disease and Disability; (4) Gender, Race, and Class; (5) Sexual Orientation; and (6) "Other" Forms of Deviance, which include masochism, carnival "spectaculars, " and cultures of violence. While some chapters feature links to topics common to media studies, such as the Motion Picture Production Code, what is powerful about the collection is how varied the interpretive standpoints of the contributors are. An example of one such unique interpretive perspective comes from Linda K. Fuller, whose chapter examines the sexual-political aspects of African AIDS-related films based on her work in West Africa "with a sexologist collating and critiquing appropriate media for Life Skills." This interpretive variety inspires novel examination of media representations through the originality of varied genres of analysis: the collection offers analysis of classic as well as popular literature, popular as well as veiled news media, award-winning as well as obscure television series, and outlaw country music as well as rap music. Because "media" is so broadly interpreted within the collection, readers are encouraged to view mass media as a crucial cultural landscape for meaning making. Each contributor offers a timely perspective about past or contemporary society through the analysis of unique media genres and artifacts, or even through analysis of representations in multiple media forms. For example, Annette Holba examines multiple forms of the media representations of a less emphasized person in the Lizzie Borden case, Borden's stepmother. Editor Kylo-Patrick R. Hart's own contribution examines multiple media representations of the visible physical signs of AIDS before focusing on their representation in two particularly noteworthy film melodramas. Rather than focusing on stereotypical categories of deviance and otherness, the contributors focus on less commonly acknowledged representations or challenge commonly acknowledged understandings of media. This is evident through Christopher J. Perez's ethnographic observation of instant messages from Gay.com participants, which dispels the notion that such online communities allow for positive expressions of gay identity. Through its broad interpretation of media, the collection offers an ample array of less commonly acknowledged media genres, as evident in Margaret Weigel's class analysis of the electric-bulb advertising sign "spectaculars" in Manhattan from 1892 to 1917; Wendy Korwin's visual analysis of a set of four image plates used within prescriptive literature; and Amanda Klein's cinematic comparison of portrayed deviance in the 1950s juvenile delinquency teenpic and the 1990s ghetto action film. Incorporated also are unique perspectives on traditional news media representations, as in Thomas Grochowski's interpretation of celebrity defendant perspectives of O.J. Simpson. Occasionally, common themes thread particular chapters together, allowing opportunities to understand how critics view the same or similar media differently. For example, David Sealy and Georges-Claude Guilbert as well as Valentin Locoge offer analysis of the HBO television series OZ. Additionally, contemporary moral dilemmas and societal issues are covered as they appear in various media representations, as when Barbara Barnett's discussion of journalistic representations of maternal infanticide and perfection appear alongside Robert Goff's analysis of the textured view of abortion provided by the film Vera Drake. Hart's collection is important to expanding the scholarly understanding of media representations because it provokes thinking about what makes media mean so much to humans in particular social, cultural, historical, and even technological contexts. The issue of the detrimental effects of "shared notions of deviance and social otherness" is evident in chapters that highlight original perspectives useful for either scholarly analysis or challenging, graduate-level classroom discussions. Also, because the collection includes literary analysis, it could serve well those with interest in literary criticism." ELESHA RUMINSKI, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with experience teaching mass communication, film studies, and visual communication.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART V; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; PART VI; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

If, in fact, "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her [step]mother forty whacks, " why (from a representational standpoint) did her stepmother deserve it? If older gay men in Internet chat rooms regularly provide much-needed acceptance and advice to younger gay males during the coming-out process, how is it that they continually reinforce racist ideologies and powerless subjectivities while doing so? What sorts of media images are commonly presented of individuals and groups that are regarded as being deviant in society, and whose interests do they ultimately serve? The answers to these important questions and many others are provided in the pages of Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations, which explores provocative representations of deviance in various media forms-including books, films, musical offerings, news accounts, television programs, and Internet sites-and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for the lived realities of individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles. The eye-opening chapters of this book enable readers to more fully realize the regularity with which media representations continuously contribute, in powerful ways, to the formation and perpetuation of influential social constructions of deviance and otherness as they pertain to delinquents, criminals, and individuals of all ages, classes, genders, races, sexual orientations, and health/(dis)ability statuses. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is a thought-provoking anthology that offers fresh insight and new approaches to critically analyzing social constructions of deviancy across a variety of media forms. While scholars have long examined the relationship between media and deviancy, this collection of essays features a range of theoretical perspectives through which to investigate deviancy and its various interpretations in original ways. In the process, it deepens our understanding of how deviancy has been constructed across time and in differing social/cultural milieus. The essays in this anthology reflect the diverse disciplines of their contributing scholars. At the same time, the anthology does not waver from its clear focus on deviancy, lending it substantial coherence and readability. The book is expertly structured and edited. Each of the essays draws inspiration from a refreshing variety of sources and fields of study. The anthology is accordingly divided into six distinct yet related sections that mark its coherence and readability. Simultaneously, the essays within each section are quite different from one another, allowing the reader to make thought-provoking connections between representations of deviancy both within sections and among them. Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an important text. Considering the growth of new media forms, its investigation of both old and new media in relation to social constructions of deviancy represents a timely and topical contribution to the field of media and cultural studies. Given its breadth and scope, the anthology represents a highly significant scholarly contribution that will greatly benefit scholars, students, and interested individuals of all levels. It offers eye-opening insights to anyone with an interest in cultural studies, disease and disability studies, film and television studies, LGBT studies, criminal justice, sociology, and related fields." Brief Reviewer Bio: Metasebia Woldemariam, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Plymouth State University who specializes in media representations of deviancy and otherness. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an erudite collection offering critical and cultural analysis of media representations within various media forms, including journalism, film, documentary, television, fiction, music, and the Internet. The book is divided into six sections that highlight the categories of deviance and otherness the contributors emphasize: (1) Age; (2) Crime and Criminals; (3) Disease and Disability; (4) Gender, Race, and Class; (5) Sexual Orientation; and (6) "Other" Forms of Deviance, which include masochism, carnival "spectaculars, " and cultures of violence. While some chapters feature links to topics common to media studies, such as the Motion Picture Production Code, what is powerful about the collection is how varied the interpretive standpoints of the contributors are. An example of one such unique interpretive perspective comes from Linda K. Fuller, whose chapter examines the sexual-political aspects of African AIDS-related films based on her work in West Africa "with a sexologist collating and critiquing appropriate media for Life Skills." This interpretive variety inspires novel examination of media representations through the originality of varied genres of analysis: the collection offers analysis of classic as well as popular literature, popular as well as veiled news media, award-winning as well as obscure television series, and outlaw country music as well as rap music. Because "media" is so broadly interpreted within the collection, readers are encouraged to view mass media as a crucial cultural landscape for meaning making. Each contributor offers a timely perspective about past or contemporary society through the analysis of unique media genres and artifacts, or even through analysis of representations in multiple media forms. For example, Annette Holba examines multiple forms of the media representations of a less emphasized person in the Lizzie Borden case, Borden's stepmother. Editor Kylo-Patrick R. Hart's own contribution examines multiple media representations of the visible physical signs of AIDS before focusing on their representation in two particularly noteworthy film melodramas. Rather than focusing on stereotypical categories of deviance and otherness, the contributors focus on less commonly acknowledged representations or challenge commonly acknowledged understandings of media. This is evident through Christopher J. Perez's ethnographic observation of instant messages from Gay.com participants, which dispels the notion that such online communities allow for positive expressions of gay identity. Through its broad interpretation of media, the collection offers an ample array of less commonly acknowledged media genres, as evident in Margaret Weigel's class analysis of the electric-bulb advertising sign "spectaculars" in Manhattan from 1892 to 1917; Wendy Korwin's visual analysis of a set of four image plates used within prescriptive literature; and Amanda Klein's cinematic comparison of portrayed deviance in the 1950s juvenile delinquency teenpic and the 1990s ghetto action film. Incorporated also are unique perspectives on traditional news media representations, as in Thomas Grochowski's interpretation of celebrity defendant perspectives of O.J. Simpson. Occasionally, common themes thread particular chapters together, allowing opportunities to understand how critics view the same or similar media differently. For example, David Sealy and Georges-Claude Guilbert as well as Valentin Locoge offer analysis of the HBO television series OZ. Additionally, contemporary moral dilemmas and societal issues are covered as they appear in various media representations, as when Barbara Barnett's discussion of journalistic representations of maternal infanticide and perfection appear alongside Robert Goff's analysis of the textured view of abortion provided by the film Vera Drake. Hart's collection is important to expanding the scholarly understanding of media representations because it provokes thinking about what makes media mean so much to humans in particular social, cultural, historical, and even technological contexts. The issue of the detrimental effects of "shared notions of deviance and social otherness" is evident in chapters that highlight original perspectives useful for either scholarly analysis or challenging, graduate-level classroom discussions. Also, because the collection includes literary analysis, it could serve well those with interest in literary criticism." ELESHA RUMINSKI, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with experience teaching mass communication, film studies, and visual communication.
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• Prólogo
• Notas para un bestiario del modernismo hispánico / Júlia Amezúa
• La comedia burlesca como ejemplo de transgresión: El rey perico y la dama tuerta / María José Casado
• Monstruos posibles e imposibles en el futuro. Breve incursión en la última ciencia ficción hispánica / José Luís Charcán Palacios
• Mujer tirana o la mímesis del varón / Ana María da Costa Toscano
• Entre historia y relato: los orígenes de El animal de Hungría, de Lope de Vega / Elena del Rio Parra
• Food taboos and politics in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Los sobrevievientes / Gerald Duchovnay
• Exorcizar el monstruo: Rosa Krüger de Sánchez Mazas / Fermín Ezpeleta Aguilar
• La increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada / Fabiola Franco
• El mito transgredido: sobre dos parodias del Tenorio / Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros
• ¿El hábito hace al monje? En torno a la masculinidad en Don Gil de las calzas verdes / Julie Gagnon-Riopel
• La intertextualidad, el monstruo de lo imaginario en Así de fundó Carnavy Street / M.L.Rocío García Lesmes
• El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza: el bazar de los espejos / Judith García-Quismondo
• Mujeres que matan: violencia femenina y transgresión social en la novela criminal femenina española / Shelley Godsland
• De gitanas y brujas: nuevas pautas de comportamiento femenino en el diecinueve / María Luisa Guardiola
• Status y transgresión social: la imagen del coche en la novela corta del siglo de oro / Felisa Guillén --

• La monstruosidad prohibida, temida, deseada y regenerador en El hombre deshabitado y Noche de guerra en el museo del Prado, de Rafael Alberti / Vance Holloway
• La farsa como transgresión: un ejemplo valleinclano / José Miguel Martín Olalla
• Monstruos y bestias en obras referenciales del nuevo mundo / Juan F.Maura
• Los monstruos de la lectura: el caso de Don Quijote / Rogelio Miñana
• Guzmán de Alfarache o la monstruosidad literaria / Jannine Montauban
• La deformación del personaje alarconiano / Consuelo Puebla
• El amor monstruo en Las novias inmóviles de Pilar Pedraza / Pablo Restrepo-Gautier
• El poeta disfrazado de sí mismo: máscaras, monstruos y el yo poético en Dámaso Alonso / Dominique Russell
• La mirada como elemento de la escritura femenina: "Eva" de Los motivos de circe de Lourdes Ortiz / Anotonio M.Sánchez
• Sensualidad, sexo e identidad en las novelas de acción policial de hinojosa / María I. Duke dos Santos
• Estrategias de supervivencia en "Los años de plomo": humor y feminismo en el Cancionero contra el mal de ojo de María Elena Walsh / Kay Sibbald
• El bestiario mítico en la novela del dictador / Wlodzimierz Szymaniak
• Las paredes oyen, de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: la transgressión unificadora de la ciudad barroca / Javier Vargas
• La ciudad de los monstruos (una lectura de El obsceno pájaro de la noche de José Donoso) / Gilberto Vásquez Rodríguez
• Álbum de família, de Nelson Rodrigues: ¿una obra pestilente y fétida? / Ana Lúcia Vieira de Andrade
• ¿Monstruo o cortesano? Un dragón inglés para un príncipe español / Elisabeth R. Wright.

• Preface Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction Charles Van Doren, "Herb Stempel Was the First to Agree to the Fix" Jim Bouton, "If We Explain We're Shooting Beaver, They'll Understand" The Transgressive I, the Exculpatory Account
• 2 Autobiography and Memoir Memoir and Autobiography The Memoir Explosion Literal Facticity: Does It Matter? James Frey, "I Honestly Have No Idea"
• 3 Autonarrating Transgression The "I" and the "Me" Vocabularies of Motive Is to Explain to Condone? The Presentation of Self Accounts Techniques of Neutralization: Theory or Concept? To Whom Are Self-Exculpations Addressed? In Sum: Neutralizing Deviance
• 4 Criminal Behavior Joe Bonanno, "This Is How I Earned My Living" Edward Bunker, "What Else Could I Do?" Jack Henry Abbott, "If You Behave like a Man, You Are Doomed" Jordan Belfort, "$12.5 Million! In Three Minutes!" Accounting for Crime
• 5 Substance Abuse Pete Hamill, "This Is What Men Do" Susan Cheever, "Drinking Was Part of Our Heritage" Steve Geng, "I Was Romanticizing Lives of Crime" William Cope Moyers, "I Was Doomed to Fail No Matter How Hard I Tried" Accounting for Substance Abuse
• 6 Sexual Transgressions Roman Polanski, "Everyone Wants to Fuck Young Girls" Kerry Cohen, "My Parade of Boys Continues" Melissa Febos, "I Took Aim and Flicked the Whip toward Him" Kirk Read, "I Wanted to Be Shirley Temple" Accounting for Sexual Transgressions
• 7 Political Deviance Elia Kazan, "I Was Notorious, an Informant, a Squealer, a Rat" Norman Podhoretz, "The Theory Circulated That I Had Gone Mad" Malcolm X, "I Never Have Felt That I Would Live to Become an Old Man" Cathy Wilkerson, "The Intention Was Not to Cause Carnage but Chaos" Accounting for Political Transgressions
• 8 Accounting for Deviance How They Account for Themselves Searching for Common Threads Looking Back Reference Index.
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How do memoirists make their work interesting, daring, exciting, and unorthodox enough so that they attract an audience, yet not so heinous and scandalous that their readers can't empathize or identify with them? In Justifiable Conduct, renowned sociologist Erich Goode explores the different strategies memoirists use to "neutralize" their supposed wrongdoing and fashion a more positive image of themselves for audiences. He examines how writers, including James Frey, Susan Cheever, Roman Polanski, Charles Van Doren and Elia Kazan, explain, justify, contextualize, excuse, or warrant their participation in criminal behaviour, substance abuse, sexual transgressions, political radicalism, and other improprieties. Using a theory of deviance neutralization, Goode assesses the types of behaviour exhibited by these memoirists to draw out generic narratives that are most effective in attempting to absolve the actor-author. Despite the highly individualistic and variable lives of these writers, Goode demonstrates that memoirists use a conventional vocabulary for their unconventional behaviour. Erich Goode is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. He has published ten books (including Moral Panics, The Paranormal, Deviant Behavior, and Drugs in American Society), seven anthologies, and articles that have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and an array of academic journals. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and has taught at half-a-dozen universities, including the University of Maryland, New York University, and the University of North Carolina.
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How memoirs justify deviant behavior from crime to sex to politics.
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• Preface Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction Charles Van Doren, "Herb Stempel Was the First to Agree to the Fix" Jim Bouton, "If We Explain We're Shooting Beaver, They'll Understand" The Transgressive I, the Exculpatory Account
• 2 Autobiography and Memoir Memoir and Autobiography The Memoir Explosion Literal Facticity: Does It Matter? James Frey, "I Honestly Have No Idea"
• 3 Autonarrating Transgression The "I" and the "Me" Vocabularies of Motive Is to Explain to Condone? The Presentation of Self Accounts Techniques of Neutralization: Theory or Concept? To Whom Are Self-Exculpations Addressed? In Sum: Neutralizing Deviance
• 4 Criminal Behavior Joe Bonanno, "This Is How I Earned My Living" Edward Bunker, "What Else Could I Do?" Jack Henry Abbott, "If You Behave like a Man, You Are Doomed" Jordan Belfort, "$12.5 Million! In Three Minutes!" Accounting for Crime
• 5 Substance Abuse Pete Hamill, "This Is What Men Do" Susan Cheever, "Drinking Was Part of Our Heritage" Steve Geng, "I Was Romanticizing Lives of Crime" William Cope Moyers, "I Was Doomed to Fail No Matter How Hard I Tried" Accounting for Substance Abuse
• 6 Sexual Transgressions Roman Polanski, "Everyone Wants to Fuck Young Girls" Kerry Cohen, "My Parade of Boys Continues" Melissa Febos, "I Took Aim and Flicked the Whip toward Him" Kirk Read, "I Wanted to Be Shirley Temple" Accounting for Sexual Transgressions
• 7 Political Deviance Elia Kazan, "I Was Notorious, an Informant, a Squealer, a Rat" Norman Podhoretz, "The Theory Circulated That I Had Gone Mad" Malcolm X, "I Never Have Felt That I Would Live to Become an Old Man" Cathy Wilkerson, "The Intention Was Not to Cause Carnage but Chaos" Accounting for Political Transgressions
• 8 Accounting for Deviance How They Account for Themselves Searching for Common Threads Looking Back Reference Index.
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How memoirs justify deviant behavior from crime to sex to politics.
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• La lente rébellion des femmes à travers les siècles
• Crime is in the eye of the beholder : rebellion and decriminalization in Marguerite Queen de Navarre's Heptaméron / Grace Morgan Armstrong
• Female playwrights and their filles rebelles in 17th-century France / Theresa Varney Kennedy
• "Elénore n'est-elle pas un monstre qu'il faudrait étouffer?" ou une impossible criminelle au XVIIIe siècle / Edwige Besle-Amaducci
• Pérégrinations d'une paria de Flora Tristan : novelogue d'une rebelle visionnaire et militante / S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey
• Ensorceleuse, empoisonneuse et graphomane : Marcelle Tinayre lisant Marie Cappelle Lafarge / Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch
• La résistance des femmes aux violences coloniales et postcoloniales
• Rebelles, prostituées et meurtrières dans les romans d'Ananda Devi / Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
• Le double meurtrier chez Sabrina Kherbiche / Joëll Vitiello
• Rebel without a cause? : female brutality and criminality in Leïla Marouane's Le châtiment des hypocrites / Siobhan McIlvanney
• Ventriloquie et esclavage : du mutisme à la violence chez Marie-Célie Agnant et Fabienne Kanor / Eloise A. Brière
• Crime and punishment : Calixthe Beyala's manic writing of Femme nue, femme noire / Adrienne Angelo
• Du récit du meurtre à l'écriture qui tue
• Female violence as social power : Joyce Mansour's surrealist anti-muse / Marylaura Papalas
• Elisabeth : la belle et la bête de Kamouraska / Candice Nicolas
• Abjection, altérité, violence : les méchantes filles de Catherine Klein / France Grenaudier-Klijn
• "Amo ergo neco" : les tueuses nothombiennes / Frédérique Chevillot
• Une nécessaire rébellion féministe : de la violence au féminin chez Virginie Despentes / Michèle A. Schaal.

• [v. 1] Colloque 1989
• v. 2. Colloque 1990
• v. 3. Colloque 1991.

• État des lieux de la critique sadienne
• L'hypothèse de la folie de Sade et ses enjeux
• La médicalisation de la critique sadienne
• Les bases du "roman pervers"
• Tentatives de réhabilitation
• Cadres épistémologiques
• Les domaines scientifiques concernés
• Approche systémique de la personnalité, de l'écriture et de l'oeuvre de Sade
• Lecture freudienne et perspective psychobiographique, l'écriture carcérale
• Lecture freudienne et perspective psychobiographique
• Psychopathologie et littérature
• Psychanalyse et critique freudienne
• Les critiques freudiennes : la psychocritique, la textanalyse et la psychobiographie
• Approche psychanalytique de la personnalité de Sade
• Aspects théoriques
• Pulsions, représentations pulsionnelles, sublimation
• Description des instances psychiques
• Éléments de description chronologique des stades prégénitaux
• L'ambivalence prégénitale
• Le complexe d'OEdipe, le complexe d'OEdipe négatif ou inversé
• La perversion polymorphe
• Période de latence
• La genèse de la personnalité de Sade
• L'enfance de Sade
• Une mère rejetante
• Un père lointain et aux principes douteux
• Hypothèse de la perversion (ou paraphilie)
• L'axe des perversions sexuelles
• L'axe des perversions narcissiques
• Perversion morale et narcissisme
• La correspondance : un instrument de son narcissisme
• Emprise
• Induction narcissique
• Identification projective
• Hypothèse de la psychopathie
• Préliminaires : psychopathie, psychanalyse et psychiatrie
• Regards psychanalytiques sur la psychopathie
• La haine (à l'égard) de la mère
• Le Sur-moi du criminel
• Des relations morbides avec autrui
• Regards psychiatriques sur la psychopathie
• Nosographie
• Psychogenèse de la psychopathie
• La mère du psychopathe
• Le père du psychopathe
• Quelques comportements et traits de personnalité
• Narcissisme, négation et manipulation des autres
• Le symptôme de la colère
• Agressivité prédatrice et passage à l'acte
• Les passages à l'acte de Sade
• Passage à l'acte et littérature
• Bilan. Hypothèse de la personnalité limite ou borderline
• Éléments de définition de la personnalité limite
• Psychopathie et personnalité limite
• Psychopathie et névrose
• Psychopathie et psychose
• Les psychopathes paranoïaques
• Les psychopathes maniaques
• Conclusion du chapitre 1
• l'écriture carcérale
• Préliminaires : les expériences carcérales de Sade
• Fonctions de l'écriture carcérale
• Fonction thérapeutique
• Fonction sexuelle
• Fonction communicative
• Fonction polémique
• Effets pathogènes de la prison
• Effets généraux sur la personnalité
• Effets de la prison sur la perception des réalités corporelles et spatio-temporelles
• Les hypothèses de la névrose, de la perversion, de la psychose et de la psychopathie carcérales
• L'hypothèse des névroses carcérales
• Névrose d'abandon
• Névrose obsessionnelle
• L'hypothèse de la "perversion carcérale"
• Le traitement pervers du sentiment de culpabilité
• Prison et perversion
• L'hypothèse de la "psychopathie carcérale"

• Effets pathogènes de la prison sur les psychopathes
• Effets bénéfiques de la prison sur les psychopathes
• Les prisons et l'asile de Charenton psychopathisés ?
• L'hypothèse de la psychose carcérale
• L'hypothèse de la psychose
• Psychose, langage et écriture
• L'hypothèse de la paranoïa
• Prison, rêves et rêveries
• Rêves, psychopathie et psychose
• Rêves, rêveries et création littéraire
• Breton et les surréalistes : une exploitation similaire de l'inconscient
• Sources et contenus de la fantasmatique sadienne
• Sources littéraire, anthropologique et historique
• Les sources littéraires
• Les récits antiques
• Cleveland de Prévost
• Les sources historique et anthropologique
• Les épisodes révolutionnaires
• Les récits de Démeunier
• Les contenus de la fantasmatique sadienne
• Préliminaires : traumatismes, fantasmes et scenarii
• Le traitement sadien des fantasmes originaires
• Premier fantasme originaire : la castration
• Deuxième fantasme originaire : la séduction de l'enfant par un adulte
• Troisième fantasme originaire : le retour dans le sein maternel
• Quatrième fantasme originaire : le coït des parents
• Orientations de la fantasmatique et de l'esthétique sadiennes
• Préliminaires : laideur prégénitale, beauté génitale et inquiétante étrangeté
• Une fantasmatique polymorphe
• Les vits sadiens
• Le volcan contre la norme génitale
• Orientation gynécophobe
• Déni, angoisse de castration et fétiche
• Orientations sadomasochiste et sadique-anale
• Axe de la fustigation
• Les fantasmes du parricide et de l'infanticide
• Le fantasme de l'inceste
• Le fantasme des femmes nymphomanes cruelles
• Orientations voyeuriste, exhibitionniste et scopique
• L'axe du travestisme et du transsexualisme
• La mécanisation des fantasmes
• Une étrange sublimation
• l'humour et le comique pervers
• Préliminaires : la critique littéraire et l'humour de Sade
• Les formes d'humour opératoires
• L'ironie
• L'humour noir
• L'humour noir selon Freud
• L'humour noir selon les surréalistes
• Comique et humour noirs sadiens
• Approche psychanalytique du comique et de l'humour pervers
• Préliminaires : le comique et l'humour pervers avant Sade
• Le comique pervers sadien
• Procédés du comique pervers
• Réification
• Animalisation
• Les farces noires perverses
• Les rires pervers
• Les rires des bourreaux
• Les rires des victimes
• Le rire de Sade ?
• L'humour pervers sadien
• L'humour pervers dans la correspondance de Sade
• Renée-Pélagie : une réceptrice victime
• Marie-Dorothée de Rousset : une réceptrice complice
• Caractéristiques et fonctions de l'humour pervers
• Humour pervers et réalités extérieures
• Humour pervers et réalités intérieures
• Humour pervers et réalités historiques
• Humour pervers, narcissisme et souffrances
• Humours pervers et esthétiques prégénitales
• Humour pervers et les images de la mère et du père
• Humour pervers et absurde
• Humour pervers et psychose
• Humour pervers contre la psychose
• Humour pervers et humour psychotique
• Un humour psychopathique

• L'humour et le comique pervers nécrophiles
• Préliminaires : les singularités de la nécrophilie
• Le comique pervers nécrophile de G.Wittkop
• La nécrophilie au sens large
• La nécrophilie au sens strict
• Le coït
• Le vampirisme
• Le nécrosadisme
• La nécrophagie
• La nécrophilie fétichisée
• La réception de l'humour pervers
• Théorie esthétique de la réception
• Le schéma de la communication de Roman Jakobson (1963)
• Réception et psychopathologie
• Les types de lecteurs
• Le lecteur pervers
• Le lecteur naïf/névrosé
• Le lecteur critique freudien
• Le fantasme du lecteur idéal
• Le lecteur borderline, lecteur idéal ?

"Avant de devenir un écrivain, le marquis de Sade fut un sujet clinique singulier. Les traumatismes de son enfance (abandons, séductions) et ses incarcérations, sous tous les régimes politiques de son époque, eurent un impact sur la structure et l'évolution de son inquiétante personnalité. Avec le marquis de Sade, nous sommes, malgré les tentatives de réhabilitation par la littérature, plus proche du modèle psychopathologique du "psychopathe pervers", du délinquant multirécidiviste, que de la "victime". Ce passé morbide eut également un impact sur sa fantasmatique, réparatrice, et sur la genèse de ses romans, non moins réactionnels. C'est en prison, au cours de séances oniriques, qu'il s'est mis à "jouer" avec ses fantasmes, qu'il les a intégrés dans des scenarii, de plus en plus baroques. C'est à ce moment-là, dans cette "folle" outrance, qu'interviennent les procédés du comique et de l'humour pervers. Passages à l'acte symboliques, ils permettent à Sade de soumettre la réalité, et ses objets, à ses délires prégénitaux, de jouir d'une victoire narcissique temporaire. Ces procédés, instruments de sa perversité, contribuent à l'assassinat psychique, affectif et moral des lecteurs. L'humour pervers est un symptôme. C'est donc dans le cadre d'une approche psychobiographique des oeuvres romanesques les plus violentes du marquis de Sade, que l'auteur utilise, en les situant dans le triple champ de la psychanalyse, de la psychiatrie et de la critique littéraire, les concepts novateurs de comique et d'humour pervers."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : Écart et nonne dans les textes grecs et latins
• Le sacré comme extravagance
• L'extravagance chez Aristophane et Lucien : une manière de penser
• Les extravagances de Lucullus : écart ou nonne dans les Vies de Plutarque ?
• Apaturius et Dinocrate, deux exemples à ne pas suivre. Extravagance et critique d'art dans le De architectura de Vitruve
• Des exigences de la norme gémellaire aux impacts de sa transgression dans la geste de Romulus et Rémus
• Le De inuentione de Cicéron : norme et déviations dans la rhétorique ancienne entre Grèce et Rome
• Les nugae de Pline le Jeune et la forme épistolaire : entre écarts et normes sociales, éthiques et littéraires
• Le dentifrice d'Apulée (Ludicra, fr. 2) : déviance coupable ou banalité frivole ?
• Mécène vu par Sénèque : une extravagance éthique et stylistique autoréférentielle
• L'Isis des romanciers grecs et latins : une extravagance égyptienne ?
• Les guérisons merveilleuses dans la geste évangélique de Juvencus ou l'extravagance épique du retour à la norme
• L'extravagance dans le débat entre Augustin et les manichéens : écart et norme dans l'Écriture
• Fama rerum nel finale del/'Agricola di Tacito (46,4)
• Mirantur undae, miratur nemus : variazione di un antico terra nel libro VIII dell'Eneide
• Mos maiorum, aequitas et aequabilitas. Principes à la base du pouvoir des optimates.

"En son étymologie, l'extravagance est une errance, une sortie de route, comme le délire, que le lexique latin lui préfère, est une sortie du sillon, et, en ce sens, elle trouve des résonances profondes dans l'imaginaire antique en perpétuelle tension entre l'écart et la norme, tant dans la définition de l'homme que dans les manières de raconter son histoire. Le colloque, dont ce livre réunit les actes, a exploré plusieurs manifestations de cette tension, essentiellement à travers le témoignage des textes littéraires. Au sein même de la bipolarité forte, il a mis en évidence la circulation entre les concepts de norme et d'écart, étant entendu que l'une et l'autre sont indissociablement liés dans un système du monde où l'extravagance participe à la bonne santé du corps social et à la quête du sens, comme en attestent, par exemple, les aberrations des Saturnales ou l'omniprésence de la marginalité dans la mythologie et l'expression du sacré. Parallèlement à ce volet anthropologique, le colloque a également fait valoir la pertinence du concept d'extravagance dans l'analyse des modes d'écriture antiques. Les oscillations de l'écart à la norme définissent, en effet, une part importante des figures du discours et de la syntaxe des récits dans la création littéraire de l'antiquité, sans compter que la mise en texte des personnages et événements les connote d'une extravagance particulière par rapport à leur modèle, en lien avec le genre littéraire ou les positions idéologiques qui en rendent compte."--P. [4] of cover.

• Introduction
• Housewife or shop girl? alienation and (anti-) romance in Die liebhaberinnen
• A jouissance beyond the phallus: lust and pornography
• Portrait of the artist as a (not-so-)young pervert: pianos, perversion, sublimation, and the kønsterlerroman in Die klavierspielerin.

This book examines Elfriede Jelinek's investigation of Austria's and Western Europe's obscene fantasies through her perversion of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central psychoanalytic concept (alienation, jouissance, perversion, and sublimation) and reads a Jelinek text in relation to the genre that it is perverting, exposing the obscene fantasies that lie at its heart. This book argues that the disruption of genres is one of Jelinek's most significant literary contributions, with her works functioning to create a negative aesthetics as opposed to a positive reworking of generic forms.
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