caa a22 4500 463200195 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9021-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9021-0 Fabijancic Ursula Department of Modern Languages, St. Francis Xavier University, P.O. Box 5000, B2G 2W5, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada aut Michel Tournier's sexual utopia revisited: androgyny and sublimation [Elektronische Daten] [Ursula Fabijancic] Michel Tournier's sexual utopia appears at first glance to consist of two contradictory, mutually exclusive ideals: the sexual autarky of androgyny and the apparent transcendence of sexuality through sublimation. For, while his personal version of the myth of Adam as an androgynous creature is profoundly rooted in a body that he claims is denser than normal bodies since it consists of three physical parts (father, mother and child) sharing only one spirits, his other myth, that of erotic sublimation by means of fusion with the cosmos seems to negate the body entirely. The present study re-examines Tournier's utopia in light of his propensity towards ironic inversions (what he calls inversions malignes/bénignes) in order to show that these two ideals are not irreconcilable, that they do not constitute opposites, that Tournier's attitude toward the body is consistent throughout his work and that his sexual utopia, in both instances, springs out of a strong condemnation of heterosexuality. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Michel Tournier nationallicence French literature nationallicence Twentieth century nationallicence Novel nationallicence Sexuality nationallicence Heterosexuality nationallicence Sexual utopia nationallicence Androgyny nationallicence Sexual sublimation nationallicence Malign/Benign Inversions nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 387-406 0028-2677 91:3<387 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9021-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9021-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fabijancic Ursula Department of Modern Languages, St. Francis Xavier University, P.O. Box 5000, B2G 2W5, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 387-406 0028-2677 91:3<387 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer