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Proust's Lesbianism

Door Elisabeth Ladenson

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#356399-ZD17
Titel	Proust's Lesbianism
Auteur	Ladenson, Elisabeth
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0801435951
ISBN13	9780801435959
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blind stamped half cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction—his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"—his term for women who love other women—as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as ancillary to its accounts of Sodom and its meditations on time and memory. Ladenson instead demonstrates the primacy of lesbianism to the novel, showing that Proust's ... (Lees verder)lesbians are the only characters to achieve a plenitude of reciprocated desire. The example of Sodom, by contrast, is characterized by frustrated longing and self-loathing. She locates the work's paradigm of hermetic relations between women in the self-sufficient bond between the narrator's mother and grandmother. Ladenson traces Proust's depictions of male and female homosexuality from his early work onward, and contextualizes his account of lesbianism in late-nineteenth-century sexology and early twentieth-century thought.
Pagina's	138
Conditie	Goed — Spine dust jacket slightly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 35,00

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