Libidinal Currents (Paperback, New edition)

This study argues that modern fiction, from Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, surges with libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, these modern fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism. Challenging overarching theories of the novel by mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Joseph Allen Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A study of the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, this text is a survey of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	February 1998
Authors:	Joseph Allen Boone
Dimensions:	227 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	528
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-06467-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-06467-0
Barcode:	9780226064673

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