ISBN:
9780192561909
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (451 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.76/6
Keywords:
Paraphilias
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.
Abstract:
Cover -- SEXUAL DISSIDENCE: Second Edition -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction to Second Edition -- Sussex English -- With and Against -- Dorian Gray: Repression and Liberation -- Freud and Nietzsche -- Cultural Cowards and Anti-Heroes -- Aesthetic Violence -- On Being Human/e -- Wasted Resolutions and Wild Regrets -- Sublimation -- PART 1: An Encounter -- 1: Wilde and Gide in Algiers -- Encounter -- With What a Choking Voice -- The Soul of Man -- Individualism -- Art versus Life -- Transgression and Subjectivity -- Paradox and Perversity -- Parting -- PART 2: Perspectives -- 2: Some Parameters -- Post/modern to Early Modern -- History Reading Theory -- Centred and Decentred Desires -- Transgression and its Containment -- Perversion -- Homosexuality -- Perverse Dynamics and Transgressive Reinscriptions -- PART 3: Subjectivity,Transgression, and Deviant Desire -- 3: Becoming Authentic -- Essentialist Politics -- Gide's Critics -- Nature: (Mis)appropriation and Inversion -- A Crime against God and Nature -- From Inversion to Authenticity: The Well of Loneliness -- Rubyfruit Jungle: The Authentic as Oppositional -- Natural Exclusions -- Holy Sinners and Lonely Bars -- Monique Wittig -- Artful Politics -- 4: Wilde's Transgressive Aesthetic and Contemporary Cultural Politics -- The Politics of Inversion -- Wilde and English Studies -- Decentred Subjectivity and the Post-modern -- Anti-essentialist Politics -- 5: Re-encounters -- Never Use 'I' -- The Truth of Wilde's 'I' -- PART 4: Transgression and its Containment -- 6: The Politics of Containment -- Versions of Containment -- Objections -- Ideology, Dislocation, Contradiction -- Transgressive Knowledge -- 7: Tragedy and Containment -- Progress into Reaction -- The Art of Expiation: Wilde in Prison -- PART 5: Perversion's Lost Histories.
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