Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous / Edition 1

by Emma Wilson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198158851
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1996
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.81(w) x 5.68(h) x 0.74(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Editorial Reviews

"Her astute judgments about the four authors illuminate their difficult texts."—Choice

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