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1 online resource |
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Cover; SEXUAL DISSIDENCE: Second Edition; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction to Second Edition; Sussex English; With and Against; Dorian Gray: Repression and Liberation; Freud and Nietzsche; Cultural Cowards and Anti-Heroes; Aesthetic Violence; On Being Human/e; Wasted Resolutions and Wild Regrets; Sublimation; PART 1: An Encounter; 1: Wilde and Gide in Algiers; Encounter; With What a Choking Voice; The Soul of Man; Individualism; Art versus Life; Transgression and Subjectivity; Paradox and Perversity; Parting; PART 2: Perspectives; 2: Some Parameters |
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Post/modern to Early ModernHistory Reading Theory; Centred and Decentred Desires; Transgression and its Containment; Perversion; Homosexuality; Perverse Dynamics and Transgressive Reinscriptions; PART 3: Subjectivity, Transgression, and Deviant Desire; 3: Becoming Authentic; Essentialist Politics; Gide's Critics; Nature: (Mis)appropriation and Inversion; A Crime against God and Nature; From Inversion to Authenticity: The Well of Loneliness; Rubyfruit Jungle: The Authentic as Oppositional; Natural Exclusions; Holy Sinners and Lonely Bars; Monique Wittig; Artful Politics |
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4: Wilde's Transgressive Aesthetic and Contemporary Cultural PoliticsThe Politics of Inversion; Wilde and English Studies; Decentred Subjectivity and the Post-modern; Anti-essentialist Politics; 5: Re-encounters; Never Use 'I'; The Truth of Wilde's 'I'; PART 4: Transgression and its Containment; 6: The Politics of Containment; Versions of Containment; Objections; Ideology, Dislocation, Contradiction; Transgressive Knowledge; 7: Tragedy and Containment; Progress into Reaction; The Art of Expiation: Wilde in Prison; PART 5: Perversion's Lost Histories |
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8: Towards the Paradoxical Perverse and the Perverse DynamicIntroduction; The Perverse Centre: Freud versus Foucault; The Wiser, the Waywarder; Nature, Perversion, and Slaves; Recovering Nature; Natural Contradictions; Deviation; Masterless Men, Wayward Women, and Religious Rebels; The Paradoxical Perverse, Dialectic, and Rhetoric; Biblical Perversions; Political Perversions; Milton and Perversion; Augustinian Theodicy; 9: Augustine: Perversion and Privation; Subjectivity and Sin; The Manichaean Heresy; Perversion and Privation; Prescriptive Metaphysics; Displacing Evil |
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10: Othello: Sexual Difference and Internal DeviationAberrant Movement; Constancy; Fatal Swerve; External Threat/Internal Deviation; Forget Iago's 'Homosexuality'; Foul as Slander; The Obscenity of Sacrifice; PART 6: Sexual Perversion: Pathology to Politics; 11: Freud's Theory of Sexual Perversion; Conflict; Repressive Deployments; Freud's Theory of the Perversions; Antagonistic Dependencies; 'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Social Critique; Surviving Repressions; 12: Deconstructing Freud; Deconstructing Freud (1): Theory versus Evidence |
| Summary |
A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed September 26, 2018) |
| Subject |
Paraphilias.
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Paraphilias in literature.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Paraphilias
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Paraphilias in literature
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192561909 |
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0192561901 |
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