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The Broker in Pornography and Violence: Lou Reed in Lulu’s World

Explorations (Opole), 2020-01, Vol.8 (8), p.33-47 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2020. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2353-6969 ;EISSN: 2353-6969 ;DOI: 10.25167/EXP13.20.8.4

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  • Title:
    The Broker in Pornography and Violence: Lou Reed in Lulu’s World
  • Author: Kuźnicki, Sławomir
  • Subjects: Collaboration ; Drama ; Literature ; Music ; Musical recordings ; Pornography & obscenity ; Reed, Lou ; Studies in violence and power ; Studies of Literature ; Violence ; Wedekind, Frank (1864-1918)
  • Is Part Of: Explorations (Opole), 2020-01, Vol.8 (8), p.33-47
  • Description: The article analyses the literary and cultural layers of Lulu, the album published by Lou Reed in collaboration with Metallica, based on Frank Wedekind’s two modernist dramas: Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora’s Box (1904). In Reed’s reinterpretation, the two plays become his means through which he enters the area of disturbing perversion and graphic pornography. Consequently, Reeds seems to follow Susan Sontag’s diagnosis according to which the goal of pornographic literature is to disorient and to disturb mental balance. In the case of Lulu, it demonstrates Reed’s strategies of crossing the borders between what is commonly accepted and what is rejected because of its non-normative quality. It results in multilayered kinkiness that outreaches the literary frames of the project and makes it possible to view Lulu as a piece of art that is both uncompromising and visionary.
  • Publisher: Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2353-6969
    EISSN: 2353-6969
    DOI: 10.25167/EXP13.20.8.4
  • Source: CEEOL: Open Access
    ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
    ProQuest Central
    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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