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Donald E Hall
[Paperback 2004]
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Subjectivity explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: *examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism,... more
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Ian Watt
[Paperback 1997]
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In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individualism of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. The three represent the positive drive of individualism, which brings down on itself repression by social disapproval.... more
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Mary Jacobus
[Paperback 1995]
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In "First Things" Mary Jacobus combines close readings with theoretical concerns in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic or phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytic and artistic representations. She carefully explores the ways in which the maternal imaginary informs both unconscious processes and signifying practices at all... more
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William Hughes ,
Andrew Smith
[Hardcover 2009]
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Elizabeth Archibald
[Hardbound 2001]
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Kathryn R Kent ,
Kent
[Hardcover 2003]
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"Making Girls into Women" offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white,... more
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Kathleen Coyne Kelly
[Hardcover 2000]
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This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and... more
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Lawrence R Schehr
[Hardcover 1995]
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Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse. The first three chapters follow the... more
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Maxim Jakubowski
[Paperback 2006]
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This remarkable collection of provactive and sensual stories spans the globe, with contributions from today's most talented writers of erotica--from Paris to Prague. A magnificent follow-up to the bestselling Mammoth Book of Erotica this anthology of seldom-seen classics and groundbreaking debuts will excite in all senses of the word. This... more
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Judith Roof ,
Larry P Gross ,
Lillian Faderman
[Paperback 1993]
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Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and historical context of the work rather than the representations of lesbianism. The editor for Colette's "The Pure and the Impure,... more
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Jane Crisp ,
Crisp Jane ,
Gillian Swanson
[Paperback 2000]
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Representation, subjectivity and sexuality have become important issues in the humanities and social sciences. This key title explores these issues, focussing in particular on the ways that representations are used to form identities in different spheres of life. Employing different approaches to develop these concepts, the authors use examples from... more
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Wendy Doniger
[Paperback 2006]
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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually... more
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Daniel Juan Gil
[Paperback 2006]
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Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In "Before Intimacy," Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by... more
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Patrick Paul Garlinger
[Paperback 2005]
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By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters from one reader to another. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled... more
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Ihara Saikaku ,
Ilara Suikaku ,
E Powys Mathers
[Paperback 1994]
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Raymond Jean Frontain
[Hardcover 2003, 2nd Edition]
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The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated foll... more
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David M Halperin
[Hardcover 2007]
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"Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn't waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done--it just does it." --Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University How we can talk... more
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Christopher Isherwood ,
James J Berg ,
Claude J Summers
[Hardcover 2007]
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In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme "A Writer and His World." During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing,... more
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Colm Toibin
[Paperback 2004]
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Toibin examines the lives and works of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, whose homosexuality remained hidden. This is an intimate encounter with Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Elizabeth Bishop, and Pedro Almodovar amo... more
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Ellen Bosman ,
John P Bradford ,
Robert B Ridinger
[Hardcover 2008]
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Here is a long-overdue genre guide to a previously ignored body of literature. The book aims to provide the reader and readers' advisor with an introduction to 20th-century gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered literature. All popular genres of litera... more
