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'Surfacing' the politics of desire : literature, feminism, and myth / Rajeshwari S. Vallury.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered)Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442689244
  • 1442689242
Other title:
  • Literature, feminism, and myth
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: 'Surfacing' the politics of desire.DDC classification:
  • 843/.7093522 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ295.W6 V35 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Pierre et Jean, or the erring of Oedipus -- The error of Narcissus -- The three virtues of imperceptibility, indiscernibility, and impersonality -- Becoming-flower, becoming-imperceptible : Oedipus, Narcissus and their lines of flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu -- Beyond the dialectic of self and other : towards a thought of the surface -- 'Une jouissance d'épiderme' : from Platonic height and depth to the deleuzian surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin.
Summary: ""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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.

Includes some text in French.

Pierre et Jean, or the erring of Oedipus -- The error of Narcissus -- The three virtues of imperceptibility, indiscernibility, and impersonality -- Becoming-flower, becoming-imperceptible : Oedipus, Narcissus and their lines of flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu -- Beyond the dialectic of self and other : towards a thought of the surface -- 'Une jouissance d'épiderme' : from Platonic height and depth to the deleuzian surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin.

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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 politics of sexual difference.

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