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'Surfacing' the politics of desire : literature, feminism, and myth / Rajeshwari S. Vallury.
LIBRA PQ295.W6 V35 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vallury, Rajeshwari S. (Rajeshwari Suryamohan)
- Series:
- University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered)
- [University of Toronto romance series]
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- French literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Women in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Feminist literary criticism.
- Politics and literature.
- French literature--Male authors.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Literature, feminism, and myth
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in French.
- Contents:
- 1 Pierre et Jean, or the Erring of Oedipus 8
- 2 The Error of Narcissus 42
- 3 The Three Virtues of Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality 80
- 4 Becoming-flower, Becoming-imperceptible: Oedipus, Narcissus, and Their Lines of Flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu 99
- 5 Beyond the Dialectic of Self and Other: Towards a Thought of the Surface 136
- 6 'Une jouissance d'epiderme': From Platonic Height and Depth to the Deleuzian Surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin 154.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802090386
- 0802090389
- OCLC:
- 180689490
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