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Desire: a memoir / Jonathan Dollimore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dollimore, Jonathan, author.
- Series:
- Beyond criticism
- Beyond Criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dollimore, Jonathan.
- Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
- Critics.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Philosophers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- English teachers--Great Britain--Biography.
- English teachers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 175 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 Life-changing accident 1
- '... their best/Desires' 13
- Leaving 18
- 2 Loss and change 23
- Journalism 30
- University 40
- 3 Life-changing wager, 1977 47
- Sex and the self 53
- Broken bodies 58
- 4 New York: City of many Sirens 61
- The Saint, 1982 61
- East Village, 1984 72
- Life and sex 76
- New York and Brighton, 1992 78
- Cruising 80
- 5 'Death is in my sight today', 1990-1 93
- Sussex Campus, c. 1991 96
- The soulful illness 98
- Hamlet 102
- Causes, causes 104
- Psychiatrists, therapists and analysts 108
- Illusions 113
- 6 On loss 117
- 7 Sydney, Australia, 1988 125
- Life, disease and condoms 129
- 'True Faith' 132
- Sydney Mardi Gras 140
- Circle of desire 143
- The entirely beautiful 145
- 8 Reckonings 153
- Getting caught 153
- The test 162
- 9 Oblivion and touch, 1993 169.
- ISBN:
- 9781350023109
- 1350023108
- 9781350023116
- 1350023116
- OCLC:
- 966555524
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