Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts, Critical Texts

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Synopsis
How significant a role does homosexuality play in the work of an individual writer? Is there a homosexual imagination, a creative impulse that can be described as distinctly homosexual? What effect have the women's and gay liberation movements had on the context of literary discussion? This provocative and ground-breaking volume confronts such questions head-on in offering a wide diversity of perspectives on the relationship of homosexuality--as a literary, social, psychological, and political phenomenon--to the rich corpus of French literature and critical theory. It consists of six interviews and fifteen essays, all but one of which were written expressly for this volume, representing a variety of critical approaches. Among the contributors to the first part, "Cultural Contexts," are leading psychoanalysts, feminists, writers, and thinkers in France and the United States. In essays and interviews, they raise important questions about the interaction of discourse with sexuality, desire, oppression, and consciousness. The essays in the second part, "Critical Texts," focus on the works of individual writers from the eighteenth century to the present. They reveal how 7 poets and novelists, in struggling with language, made use of, and irrevocably altered, the literary conventions and psychological preconceptions of their time. Among the authors treated are the Marquis de Sade, George Sand, Baudelaire, Proust, Gide, Colette, Cocteau, Sartre, Genet, Violette Leduc, and Monique Wittig.
Copyright:
1979

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
389 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780801411861
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Cornell University
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Terry Gorman
Proofread By:
Frenchie
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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