[lit-ideas] t&a of yore
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:26:23 -0500
Read about "The innocence of the striptease"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23110-2040499,00.html
Here is my favourite quote:
"Even though Shteir is a fully fledged academic (associate professor of
dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at DePaul University), her writing style
is elegant, vivid and mercifully free of jargon. Not for her the kind of
soporific bilge spouted by too many of her peers. Indeed, she quotes a
little mockingly from a forerunner of such jargon-mongers, Roland Barthes,
to show the path she will not be taking. Here is the great Gallic thinker
in 1957, writing on the G-string: ?This ultimate triangle, by its pure and
geometric form, by its brilliant and hard material, brandishes sex like a
pure sword and re-imagines the woman in a mineralogical universe, the
precious stone being here the irrefutable theme of the total and unuseful
object.? In 1955, the French actually founded an Académie du Striptease.
Thank God for les Anglo-Saxons and their pragmatism."
p
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