Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous

ISBN-13: 9780198158851 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 224 str.

Emma Wilson

Opis

Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity, and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous, her study reveals the formative potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter.

Recenzje

Wilson's use of Butler's rereading of Lacan to describe the formative and yet not normative power of certain fictions over their readers is thoroughly convincing. Her prose style in rich and precise. ... The book is impeccably researched and written with evidently painstaking care. It should significantly advance debate about the intertwining of reading, desire, and identity in French fiction since modernism, and should be on the reading lists of all undergraduates following courses that include the texts and authors on which it focuses.