Writing And Desire
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Writing And Desire
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Author : Jonathan Alexander
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Writing And Desire written by Jonathan Alexander and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire—the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world—as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What might such a recentering of desire offer us, personally and politically? And how is writing itself, as one of the primary ways through which we express and explore ourselves, central to the expression and exploration of desire? Drawing on recent theoretical work in queer theory and the new materialism, Jonathan Alexander studies a range of queer and trans writers and artists who center desire in their practice and argues that conceptualizing writing as desire allows us to reexperience both writing and our world as saturated with our dreams and wishes for change. In a book both elegant and unsettling, and by turns personal, analytic, and experimental, Alexander challenges us—and himself—to think about desire and writing as the deepest manifestation of our hopes for the future.
Writing Desire
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Author : Bertram Cohler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2007-05-15
Writing Desire written by Bertram Cohler and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, Cohler illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Among Cohler's diverse subjects is Alan Helms, whose journey from Indiana to New York's gay society represents the passage of men who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, when homosexuality was considered a hidden "disease." The liberating effects of Stonewall's aftermath are chronicled in the life of Arnie Kantrowitz, the prototypical activist for gay rights in the 1970s and the founder the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation. The artistic works of Tim Miller and Mark Doty evoke loss and shock during of the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Cohler rounds out this collective group portrait by looking at the newest generation of writers in the Internet age via the blog of BrYaN, who did the previously unthinkable: he "outed" himself to millions of people. A compelling mix of social history and personal biography, Writing Desire distills the experience of three generations of gay America. Finalist, LGBT Studies, Lambda Literary Foundation
The Unconcept
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Author : Anneleen Masschelein
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01
The Unconcept written by Anneleen Masschelein and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses. The Unconcept is the first genealogy of the concept of the Freudian uncanny. It traces the development, paradoxes, and movements of this negative concept through various fields and disciplines from psychoanalysis, literary theory, and philosophy to film studies, genre studies, sociology, religion, architecture theory, and contemporary art. Anneleen Masschelein explores the vagaries of this unconcept in the twentieth century, beginning with Freuds seminal essay The Uncanny, through a period of conceptual latency, leading to the first real conceptualizations in the 1970s and then on to the present dissemination of the uncanny to exotic fields such as hauntology, the study of ghosts, robotics, and artificial intelligence. She unearths new material on the uncanny from the English, French, and German traditions, and sheds light on the status of the concept in contemporary theory and practice in the humanities. In this essential reference book for researchers and students of the uncanny, the familiar contours of the intellectual history of the twentieth century appear in a new and exciting light. [a] daring and erudite study The Unconcept accomplishes an impressive feat. Masschelein admirably unfolds the century-long formation of an important literary concept as if she is narrating a storyalbeit, a densely theoretical tale, and one more edifying as a reference than as a pleasure. Her copious notes and bibliography alone qualify this book as an important contribution to scholarship and a formidable resource for scholars working in the realm of the uncanny. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts The Unconcept is ambitious, meticulously researched, and, much like the Freudian term it examines, intensely self-conscious [it] delivers a careful diachronic analysis of a haunting theoretical concept, mapping its century-long journey to the center of our attention. IMPACT
Petrarch S Humanism And The Care Of The Self
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Author : Gur Zak
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-17
Petrarch S Humanism And The Care Of The Self written by Gur Zak and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-17 with History categories.
In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.
Eros The Bittersweet
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Author : Anne Carson
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-14
Eros The Bittersweet written by Anne Carson and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.
Shifting Subjectivities In Contemporary Fiction And Film From Spain
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Author : Jennifer Brady
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-14
Shifting Subjectivities In Contemporary Fiction And Film From Spain written by Jennifer Brady and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-14 with Performing Arts categories.
This collection of essays analyzes shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, the anthology establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain, and serves as a useful reference for scholars and students of Spanish literature and cinema. The primary avenues of exploration include representations of recovery in post-crisis Spain, marginalized texts and identities, silenced subjectivities, intersecting relationships, and spaces of desire and control. The individual chapters focus on major events, such as the global economic crisis, the tension between majority and minority cultures within Spain, and the ongoing repercussions of past trauma and historical memory. In doing so, they build upon theories of identity, subjectivity, gender, history, memory, and normativity.
Animals And Desire In South African Fiction
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Author : Jason D. Price
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Animals And Desire In South African Fiction written by Jason D. Price and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals’ different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.
The Archaeology Of Foucault
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Author : Stuart Elden
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2022-12-01
The Archaeology Of Foucault written by Stuart Elden and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Philosophy categories.
On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both psychology and philosophy, beginning his explorations of the question of sexuality. Weaving together analyses of published and unpublished material, this is a comprehensive study of this crucial period. As well as Foucault’s major texts, it discusses his travels to Brazil, Japan, and the USA, his time in Tunisia, and his editorial work for Critique and the complete works of Nietzsche and Bataille. It was in this period that Foucault developed the historical-philosophical approach he called ‘archaeology’ – the elaboration of the archive – which he understood as the rules that make possible specific claims. In its detailed study of Foucault’s archive the book is itself an archaeology of Foucault in another sense, both excavation and reconstruction. This book completes a four-volume series of major intellectual histories of Foucault. Foucault’s Last Decade was published by Polity in 2016; Foucault: The Birth of Power followed in 2017; and The Early Foucault in 2021.
Us Them
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Us Them written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare Cinema And Desire
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Author : S. Ryle
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-13
Shakespeare Cinema And Desire written by S. Ryle and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.