Robbe-Grillet and Modernity - Science, Sexuality, and Subversion by Ramsay, Raylene - 1992

Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1992. A handsome, Very Fine, "AS NEW" copy. Science, literature, and sexuality - an insightful, revelatory study of this charismatic author. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Toward the Sense(s) of Science: Of "Complementarity"; Configurations of Modernite; The Modernity of Myth; From Oedipus to Andromeda; Myths of Woman, or the Sadist and the Siren; The Sense(s) of Sado-Eroticism in Robbe-Grillet's Films; The Eroticization of Power or the Power of the Erotic?; The Uses and Abuses of Enchantment; Interviews with R-G [An Identikit Portrait & Sex, Text, and Criminal Project]; Notes; Works by R-G; Selected Bibliography; Index. 302 pages. CONDITION: The book itself is bright, tight, unmarked, and evidently unread, with negligible shelf-wear. Its dustjacket - now in a clear mylar (removable) protective cover - is pristine. This is a beautiful copy - at an excellent price.. First Edition. Clothbound Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.