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The Perverse imagination : sexuality and literary culture
- Title
- The Perverse imagination : sexuality and literary culture / edited by Irving Buchen.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, 1970.
- Description
- xiv, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Buchen, Irving H., 1930-
- Notes
- Collection of essays. Criticism. Anthology. Includes bibliography.
- Partial contents
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- Introduction
- Sade : prisoner of consciousness / Ihab Hassan
- Satire and the rhetoric of sadism / Joseph Bentley
- The pornography of death / Geoffrey Gorer
- In despite of Christendom / Wayland Young
- Pornography and the new expression / Richard Schechner
- The third theater revisited / Richard Brustein
- Notes on pornography / Gore Vidal
- The new immoralists / William Phillips
- "But he's a homosexual ..." / Benjamin De Mott
- The cities of night : John Rechy's City of night and the American literature of homosexuality / Stanton Hoffman
- Philip Roth's exact intent / George Plimpton
- Attitudes toward sex in American "high culture" / Robert Boyers
- On the psychology of erotic literature / Strother Purdy
- Sexual politics : Miller, Mailer, and Genet / Kate Millett
- The resurrection of the body / Norman O. Brown
- The enigma of incest / Georges Bataille
- The erotic revolution / Lawrence Lipton
- Our bedfellow, the Marquis de Sade / Anthony Burgess.
- References
- NUC, 1968-72, v. 13, p. 587. BM, 1971-75, v. 2, col. 1800. 70-124521.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sadomasochism in literature. Sex in literature.
- ISBN
- 0814709567 (cloth)