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Item Details
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SEXUAL DISSIDENCE
AUGUSTINE TO WILDE, FREUD TO FOUCAULT |
| By: |
Jonathan Dollimore |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£49.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198112696 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198112693 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 August, 1991 |
| Pages: |
398 |
| Description: |
Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why it is history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position?These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study, which returns to early modern England in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as Augustine, Freud, Fanon, and Foucault. |
| Synopsis: |
This wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, in the process brilliantly linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. The book shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates on literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. Central topics include homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race. |
| Illustrations: |
1 line drawing |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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