Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper

Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper
ISBN-10
0838640885
ISBN-13
9780838640883
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
279
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Leora Lev

Description

Dennis Cooper has been both praised and censured as the most controversial writer working today for his creation of a searing, outlaw textuality that charts psychosexual terrain uncensored by desire police. This volume is the first to explore Cooper's significance as a pioneering literary artist who illuminates the hidden or repressed extremities of the fin de millennium American zeitgeist. Leora Lev has assembled a roster of internationally acclaimed scholars, fiction writers, filmmakers, and artists who conjure a provocative encounter between Cooper's fiction, European transgressive literature and philosophy (e.g., Sade, Rimbaud, Bataille, Bresson), and American psychocultural topographies.

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