{"product_id":"the-limits-of-ferocity-9780822349921","title":"The Limits of Ferocity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Ferocity\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and essential book for the student of modernity. Daniel Fuchs identifies one of the key strands in modernist thought and cultural behavior in this authoritative, intellectually sophisticated treatment of modernist outrage at the repressions and civilized limits implied in Freud’s theory of the superego, and of the anti-bourgeois attempts of many modernists to go beyond all such boundaries and limits through utopian sexual transcendence. This is interdisciplinary cultural\/historical critique at its best.”—\u003cb\u003eGloria L. Cronin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An epic achievement, \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Ferocity\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to the study of modern fiction and to psychoanalytic criticism. Daniel Fuchs yokes familiar writers and thinkers together in a new way, making us rethink their relationship.”—\u003cb\u003eAndrew Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At a time in which the American political environment could hardly be more extreme or polarized, Daniel Fuchs’s trenchant critique of modernist literary rebellion issues a resounding call for restored moderation, civility, and humanism in our cultural values and perspectives…. Sociological critique bows to Fuchs’s sensibility as a literary critic and his empathetic appreciation of the dynamic tensions of inner life as expressed by the literary imagination. That sensibility shines through in this supremely intelligent and humane book.” -- Barbara Schapiro * D.H. Lawrence Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Freud and the Postwar Temper 11\u003cbr\u003e 2. Freud and Others on Aggression 24\u003cbr\u003e 3. Wilhelm Reich 40\u003cbr\u003e 4. Norman O. Brown 53\u003cbr\u003e 5. Deleuze and Guattari 67\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 88\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Marquis de Sade 102\u003cbr\u003e 7. D. H. Lawrence 145\u003cbr\u003e 8. Georges Bataille 194\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 224\u003cbr\u003e 9. Henry Miller 232\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 271\u003cbr\u003e 10. Norman Mailer 293\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346\u003cbr\u003e Notes 363\u003cbr\u003e Index 391","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406065639767,"sku":"9780822349921","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349921.jpg?v=1730494411","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-limits-of-ferocity-9780822349921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}