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Title: DESIRE
LOVE STORIES IN WESTERN CULTURE
By: Catherine Belsey
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0631168141
ISBN 13: 9780631168140
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Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
Pub. date: 23 October, 1994
Pages: 256
Description: In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura.
Synopsis: In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Beginning with the celebration of true love in contemporary popular romance, and the reluctant scepticism of postmodern novels, she goes on to explore past representation of passion by Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennyson and Bram Stoker. Belsey also discusses the role of desire in the utopian writings of Plato, More and William Morris, as well as its treatment by a range of speculative feminists, from Charlotte perkins Gilman to Marge Piercy.
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Publication: UK
Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
Returns: Returnable
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