BOODAKIAN, Florence Dee, Resisting Nudities. A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism, Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang, 2008, 102 p.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0415-2
RÉSUMÉ
This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginativemanifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption ofdesire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a frameworkfor understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resistingnude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic ofphysical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessarylink between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mindintrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary culturallandscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysisof what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments.
BIOGRAPHIE
Florence Dee Boodakian has a Ph.D. in modern British literature fromNew York University and currently teaches English literature and humanrights studies at SUNY Nassau. She is the author of Tormenting Angel: A Psychoaesthetic Theory of Imagination (Peter Lang, 1999).