Creative Sentimental Cruelty in
Liaisons Dangereuses and Venus in Furs

General themes:
--The Erotic within consciousness and creativity
--Schiller's sentimental ideal
--M. M. Bakhtin textual discourses as a link between Laclos, Schiller and Sacher-Masoch
--Sacher-Masoch's development of sentimental cruelty into the masochistic ideal


The Thesis Text

Other Notes:

The Origin of the Erotic and Creativity

Sublimation through Representation

Judith Butler and the concept of Desire

Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari on the Interruption of Desire

Deleuze, Schiller and Masoch

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Thesis page and texts by Shannon Roberts

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