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Burger, Pamela.

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The sadistic reader: Gender and the pleasures of violence in the novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The sadistic reader: Gender and the pleasures of violence in the novel./
Author:	Burger, Pamela.
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-07A(E).
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3683256
ISBN:	9781321573336

The sadistic reader: Gender and the pleasures of violence in the novel.
Burger, Pamela.

The sadistic reader: Gender and the pleasures of violence in the novel. - 171 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project seeks to explain the prevalence of narratives that feature sexual violence against women in the tradition of the Anglophone novel. To this end, it posits the existence of a sadistic reading practice that coincides with readers' sympathetic identification. A sadistic reader takes pleasure in the bodily violation of the woman at the center of a novel; such a reader enters the text expecting violence, and experiences a sense of narrative gratification when the inevitable violation plays out. These expectations emerge from repeated interactions with a literary tradition in which victimized heroines are routine. To explore such sadism, I follow two lines of inquiry. The first examines the literary mechanisms that create meaning and pleasure from textual violence, and determines what devices exist within the text to engage the reader in a virtual complicity with that act. The second explores how violent representations implicate the culture at large: to what extent do these texts reify cultural attitudes towards violence against women, to what extent do they code sexuality, and to what extent do they react to existing sexual norms?

ISBN: 9781321573336Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

The sadistic reader: Gender and the pleasures of violence in the novel.
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520 $a Combining historical theories of the novel, reader response theory, and psychoanalysis, I trace the uneasy relationship between readers and female protagonists. Although readers sympathetically identify with a novel's heroine, her bodily vulnerability makes her a fraught site for such identification, and, in the moment of her violation, she is easily maneuvered from the position of the sympathetic "me" to the abjected "not-me." Thus readers can enjoy identifying with the heroine throughout her narrative, while still rejecting her vulnerability. I explore this seeming paradox by analyzing the works of Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and J.M. Coetzee. These authors self-consciously examine the rape narrative as it operates in the literature of the postmodern era. Their respective novels The Magic Toyshop, Blonde, and Disgrace, consider both the influence of literary history on the self-perceptions of the modern heroine and demonstrate the complex, shifting form of identification through which readers interact with novelistic heroines.
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