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Feeling Dirty: Touched by the Post-War Erotic
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2007
- pp. 17-28
- 10.1353/esp.2007.0060
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This article is a theorization of the decline of the erotic in literature. Late modernist works by Klossowski and Réage are the vanguard of this decline, as they signal the post-modern, in which categories collapse. Criss-crossed by interplays of meaning and desire, the post-modern body both inside and outside literature is glimpsed in these works in statu nascendi.