André Gide Pederasty and Pedagogy |
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| Author:
| Segal, Naomi |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815976-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $220.00 |
Book Description:
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This new study of the major French author André Gide (1869-1951) makes a powerful contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex, moved as much by undesire as desire and the fascination for crime, education, virtue, or play. Naomi Segal traces the fluidity of motivation throughout his fiction and non-fiction, through the analogy of the mechanical processes of the male body.
This new study of the major French author André Gide (1869-1951) makes a powerful contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex, moved as much by undesire as desire and the fascination for crime, education, virtue, or play. Naomi Segal traces the fluidity of motivation throughout his fiction and non-fiction, through the analogy of the mechanical processes of the male body.