Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture by Belsey, Catherine

Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631168140)

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Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture by Belsey, Catherine

Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture

$49.95
Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture by Belsey, Catherine

Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Catherine Belsey
ISBN-10: 0631168141
ISBN-13: 9780631168140
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 12/05/1994
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.63d
By Catherine Belsey
By Catherine Belsey
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Catherine Belsey is Professor of English and Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. She is the author of Critical Practice (1980), The Subject of Tragedy (1985) and John Milton (1988).

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