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Surfacing the Politics of Desire : Literature, Feminism and Myth
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"Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and ...
"Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and politics of sexual difference.
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- Creator
- Rajeshwari S. Vallury
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2008
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9781442689244, 1442689242
- OCLC
- on1013949302
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Pierre et Jean, or the Erring of Oedipus -- 2. The Error of Narcissus -- 3. The Three Virtues of Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality -- 4. Becoming-flower, Becomingimperceptible: Oedipus, Narcissus, and Their Lines of Flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu -- 5. Beyond the Dialectic of Self and Other: Towards a Thought of the Surface -- 6. 'Une jouissance d'épiderme': From Platonic Height and Depth to the Deleuzian Surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index