Sexual Dissidence Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault |
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| Author:
| Dollimore, Jonathan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-811269-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1991 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $102.95 |
Book Description:
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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 ofpostmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links...
More DescriptionWhy 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 ofpostmodernity. 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.