After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture

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University of California Press, 1997年12月15日 - 290 頁
This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women.

To make his case, Kramer uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams. In formal and informal reflections, he explores the self-contradictions of masculinity, the shifting alignments of femininity, authority, and desire, and the interdependency of hetero- and homosexuality. At the same time, he imagines alternatives that could allow gender to be freed from the existing system of polarities that inevitably promote sexual violence.

Kramer's writing avoids the conventional dress of intellectual authority and moves between music and literature in a style that is both intimate and effective. He combines informed scholarship with candid personal utterance and makes clear what is at stake in this crucial debate. After the Lovedeath will have a profound impact on anyone interested in new ways to think about gender.
 

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Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture
1
Oedipus Tyrannos Swellfoot the Tyrant
21
A Little Extra Piece
26
Any man has to wants to needs to
30
The Bathers
34
Brimstone
37
A Whole Piece More
38
Violence and Misrecognition
41
Clef Change
153
Epiphany
155
Conundrum
158
Minstrels
159
Tableau vivant
161
Passing
164
Riddles of the Sphinx
169
Straight and Narrow
170

Coup de Grace Notes
44
A Portmanteau
46
The First Wolf Dream 1951
47
Reorientations
50
Aria
55
Gensynderergy
60
Le Baton ivre
61
Lifelines
65
Fascinatin Rhythm
77
Mincing Along
81
Unedited Text of the Second Wolf Dream ca 1972
85
A Blind Spot
87
Love Knots
90
The Pobble That Has No Toes
95
Becoming Disowned
97
The Politest Castration
99
A Sight for Sore Eyes
101
In the far south
105
Aural Sex
108
Counterparts
113
Obsequies
114
Just Married
116
Inside Stories
119
Arietta
123
The Pozdnyshevian Art
125
Diva
129
An Asymmetry
132
Isolde sinks as if transfigured
134
Softly in Branganes arms
136
Onto Tristans body
139
Chop Logic
141
Tall Tales
146
Cogito E_goSum
147
Cavatina
148
Pleiades
152
The Kreutzer Sonata
171
Prague to Hollywood
173
Ruling Bodies
177
Bad Signs
180
In My Second
184
Heterosexless Desire
185
I Wanna Be a Football Hero
189
Aubade
191
Ah But
193
Cyanosis
194
Homoerogenous Zones
197
It glides quickly in through my ears
201
Latent Remedies
203
The Law Is an Ass
206
Menages a Trois
208
Ralph and Alice
210
Ear to the Ground
213
Tinnitus
215
Pole Star
224
The Closet within the Closet
226
Breaking Ranks
231
Odd Couples
234
Depolarizing
236
Impassioned to the point of obscenity
238
Erotoautism
243
Differences
247
Piece Work
249
Holding It In
259
At the Crossroads
261
The White Wolf
264
Notes
265
Bibliography
269
Index
277
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Lawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He has published three previous books with California: Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984), Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 (1990), and Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (1995). All are available in paperback.

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