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Sexuality and the Reading Encounter - Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous (Hardcover, New)
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Sexuality and the Reading Encounter - Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous (Hardcover, New)
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Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate
the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the
Reading Encounter Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate
relations between reading, identity, and identification.
Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust,
Duras, Tournier, and Cixous, her study reveals the formative
potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter.
Drawing on an understanding of identity as performative, alienated
and fictitious, this study argues that the fictions we read act as
mirrors and decoys displaying seductive images of intelligible
sexual identities. The texts chosen for discussion here draw
attention to the strategies by which identity is constructed
textually. They work thus to frame the reading encounter and to
highlight its formative power. In analysis of these texts, this
study works to cut across the axes of homosexuality and
heterosexuality, offering an alternative focus on the
interdependence of identity and fantasy.
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