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La surjouissance: the Marquis de Sade's method to overcome reduced space
Description
Reduced space is an important theme in the works of the Marquis de Sade including his epic novel The New Justine and his pornographic performance piece Philosophy in the Bedroom including the political/social treatise "Frenchmen, yet another effort is needed if you want to be a Republic". Through out his life Sade attempted to overcome reduction of space with writing. Tragically, his writing often prolonged the reduction of his space by sending him to or keeping him in prison. It is my theory that his violent, pornographic writing style is "une écriture de surjouissance" or "a writing of over-coming". Surjouissance is my theory for Sade's method, based on textual analysis of Sade's main works, that he combines through his syntactic structure, narrative voice, and semantic themes the orgasm of the mind represented by philosophical discourse with the orgasm of the body represented textually by orgiastic scenes and the language of orgasm to reach an ultimate state of complete freedom. In the political pamphlet "Frenchmen yet another effort..."Sade attempts to set this theory of sur-jouissance, or this transcendent state reached through the combination of physical and philosophical orgasm, as the political foundation for a new republic. Does he succeed in creating a viable political formula for a sustainable republic? My argument states absolutely not. His aristocratic elitism narrows his voice. But he does propose the combination of sexual, literary, and intellectual freedoms as a possible polemic against any form of reduced space.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Swankie, Ryan James (Author)
- Mullet, Isabelle (Thesis advisor)
- Canovas, Frédéric (Committee member)
- Bahtchevanova, Mariana (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Extent
v, 73 p. : col. ill
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9225
Statement of Responsibility
by Ryan James Swankie
Description Source
Retrieved on Jan. 26, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-73)
Field of study: French
System Created
- 2011-08-12 04:44:00
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:52:47
- 3 years 2 months ago
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