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"Appears well placed to make an influential intervention in cultural theory on both sides of the Atlantic....A carefully argued, thought-provoking book that makes fascinating connections among different kinds of discourse while carrying an affective punch far beyond the academic routine."--ModernLanguage Quarterly
"Dollimore's amazing command of Western literary culture is evident in the historical and disciplinary sweep of his book."--Signs
"This is a thoughtful and challenging book, not only for its reappraisals of hoary academic controversies like the constructionist-essentialist standoff, but because of the many intriguing analytical formulations it propounds."--Choice
"A massive and authoritative contribution to the debate on cultural politics....Every student should own and use a copy. More to the point, so should anyone who presumes to teach."--Times Higher Education Supplement
"A substantial and ambitious book....It is a book that needed to be writte
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This wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, in the process brilliantly linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. The book shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates on literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. Central topics include homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.
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In Blidah, Algeria in January 1895 Andre Gide is in the hall of a hotel, about to leave. Read the first page
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jonathan Dollimore's book is a very intersting examination and analysis of the sexual subject. The book is of great help to those examining sexuality, specially masochism. I used this book for my thesis on understanding sexuality and analysis of desire (eg masochism, sexual labelling, psychoanalytical evidences etc).
Jonathan Dollimore presents the most complex theories in an easily readable, and engaging style. The refrences he uses to back up his ideas are very relevant and thought provoking.
The book is very valuable to those interested in writing academic papers on the subject of sexual labelling, queer masculinities and analysis of sexuality.
For others, it is a fascinating, very resourceful book that seems to be sadly under rated.
Jonathan Dollimore presents the most complex theories in an easily readable, and engaging style. The refrences he uses to back up his ideas are very relevant and thought provoking.
The book is very valuable to those interested in writing academic papers on the subject of sexual labelling, queer masculinities and analysis of sexuality.
For others, it is a fascinating, very resourceful book that seems to be sadly under rated.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wrote an essay about homosexuality and homoeroticism in a play. This book helped me immensly with certain aspects I did not know about or hadn't even thought of talking about! It's very thorough. However, the use of quite difficult language can be off putting. But if you are interested in the subjbext in anyway it's a great read. I enjoyed it and made plenty of notes and know lots more than I already did about the issues, and many would say I was already an encyclopedia on the topic!!
Definatly worth a read!
Definatly worth a read!
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Sexuality uncovered
19 Jun 2000
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With this book Dollimore analyzes sexuality in terms of the differing conceptions of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde. Where Wilde saw surface and performance, Gide saw a representation of essential self. Taking Wilde's side in the argument, Dollimore uses this analysis to deconstruct sexuality as it appears in early texts.
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