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In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov's fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov "right." At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk everywhere. Naiman argues that the sexual and the interpretive are so bound together in Nabokov's stories and novels that the reader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading and overreading, and that reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality than of literature. Nabokov's fictions pervert their readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better people but closer readers, assuming all the impudence and potential for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails. In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in works translated from the Russian. He also takes on books by other authors-such as Reading Lolita in Tehran-that misguidedly incorporate Nabokov's writing within frameworks of moral usefulness. In a final, extraordinary chapter, Naiman reads Dostoevsky's The Double with Nabokov-trained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert on readers.

Paraphilias in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Sade, de, Donatien A.F. --- Paraphilias in literature. --- Erotic literature, French --- Perversion dans la littérature --- Littérature érotique française --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Sade, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Perversion dans la littérature --- Littérature érotique française --- Paraphilias in literature --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- De Sade, --- Marquis de Sade, --- Sad, --- Sade, D.-A.-F. --- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, --- Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, --- סדגרוב, ג׳ודי, --- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, --- Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, --- סדגרוב, ג׳ודי, --- de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François --- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François de --- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

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This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. According to modern cultural discourses and psychosexual categorizations, these deviant desires and identifications feminize men, or tend to render them homosexual. Colleen Lamos's analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. She argues that canonical male modernism, far from being a monolithic entity with a coherently conservative political agenda, is in fact the site of errant impulses and unresolved struggles. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, and a recognition of the heterogeneous forces which formed and deformed modernism.

Paraphilias in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Sex in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Eliot, T. S. --- Proust, Marcel, --- Joyce, James, --- Homer. --- Birmingham, Kevin. --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Ai-lüeh-tʻe, --- Īliyūt, T. S., --- Elliŏtʻŭ, --- Eliot, Thōmas S., --- Eliot, Th. S., --- Eliot, Thomas Stern, --- Elyoṭ, T. S., --- Ėliot, Tomas Stirns, --- אליוט ט.ס --- אליוט, ת. ס.

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It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments from the origins of the Gothic novel in the mid-eighteenth century, through the mid-nineteenth-century sensation novel, toward the end of the Victorian Gothic in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. O'Malley foregrounds the continuing importance of Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

English fiction --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Paraphilias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- In literature. --- Paraphilias in literature --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- History and criticism --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Les efforts de l'homme pour se procurer de la joie sont parfois dignes de l'attention du philosophe, écrit Victor Hugo dans L'Homme qui rit. Comme les autres romantiques, il fait pourtant peser un énorme soupçon sur le rire et sur la gaieté. Les rictus omniprésents sous sa plume et celle de ses contemporains appartiennent tant au sadisme qu'à la souffrance, tant au bourreau qu'à sa victime. Alors que notre époque se montre friande de bonne humeur, de fêtes, de festivals, Victor Hugo et ses contemporains des quatre coins de l'Europe jugent que la joie est mal à-propos, elle qui résonne au milieu des souffrances populaires. Il peut lui arriver de sourire ou de verser des larmes, mais le héros hugolien ne rit pas, sauf si on l'y oblige. Doit-on encore lire les romantiques aujourd'hui ? Oui, parce qu'ils nous rappellent qu'il faut résister à la dictature contemporaine de l'allégresse, du rire de force. Voilà pourquoi Rictus romantiques se termine par un « Éloge de la mauvaise humeur ».

Cheerfulness in literature --- Droefheid in de literatuur --- Gaieté dans la littérature --- Lach in de literatuur --- Laughter in literature --- Perversion sexuelle dans la litterature --- Rire dans la littérature --- Sadness in literature --- Seksuele afwijkingen in de literatuur --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Tristesse dans la littérature --- Vrolijkheid in de literatuur --- Hugo, Victor, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rire dans la littérature. --- Perversion dans la littérature. --- Gaieté dans la littérature. --- Tristesse dans la littérature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Sexual deviation in literature. --- Cheerfulness in literature. --- Sadness in literature. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Hugo, Victor --- Hugo, Victor-Marie --- Hjuho, Viktor --- African literature (French) --- History and criticism. --- Hiwkō, Vikʻtʻor, --- Hījū, Fīktūr, --- Gi︠u︡go, Viktor, --- Hsiao-o, --- Hyowgo, Viktor, --- Hugo, Victor Marie, --- Yü-kuo, Wei-kʻo-to, --- Yü-kuo, --- Hūkū, Fīktūr, --- Ounkō, Viktor, --- Hi︠u︡ho, Viktor, --- Hi︠u︡ho, V. --- Hugo, Viktor, --- Huygo, Victo, --- Gi︠u︡go, V. --- Hyugo, Vhikṭara, --- Igo, Viktor, --- I︠U︡go, Viktor, --- Hyūkō, Vikṭar, --- Hīyūkō, Vikṭar, --- Hiwgō, Viktor, --- Гюго, Виктор, --- הוגאָ, װ. --- הוגא, וויקטאר --- הוגא, וויקטאר, --- הוגא, ויקטור, --- הוגא, װיקטאר --- הוגא, װיקטאר, --- הוגו ויקטור, --- הוגו, ויקטור --- הוגו, ויקטור, --- هوجو، فيكتور، --- 雨果, --- Higu, Fikṭuṛ, --- African literature (French) - History and criticism. --- Hugo, Victor, - 1802-1885 - Criticism and interpretation --- perversion --- littérature --- tristesse --- rire --- Hugo, Victor, - 1802-1885