Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0838640885 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Leora Lev is associate professor at Bridgewater State College.
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.. 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. 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
"Leora Lev has compiled a long overdue collection of essays Enter at Your Own Risk is a knockout book." -- Scott Heim
James E. Jerdon said Fascinating exploration of Cooper and his influences. While the previous reviewer is absolutely on target when he recommends that readers explore Cooper's work and draw their own conclusions about it, the remainder of his critique is unfounded and reflects the degree to which he fails completely to understand the project represented by this thorough and provocative . Vincent Amadeo said Intelligent, perceptive, and thought-provoking. Leora Lev has brilliantly compiled, as well as contributed to, an amazing array of well-written, thoughtful, and razor-sharp essays on Dennis Cooper's work. This book is thorough in its coverage of Cooper, and elucidates clearly his thematic construction and comments on contemporary society. Although Cooper's wri. Incoherent gobbledeegooksave your $ and do not buy Wolfsegg This monograph epitomizes the worst excesses of critical theory. The language is obscure and impenetrable. I think Dennis Cooper is a fine novelist who deserves critical attention, but critical works of this nature only obfuscate the meaning of the texts they purport to interpret.