{"product_id":"scenes-of-intimacy-jennifer-cooke-9781472587572","title":"Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScenes of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation. Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels, \u003ci\u003eScenes of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities, their failures and their futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Cooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147258757X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472587572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d","brand":"Jennifer Cooke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767164293375,"sku":"9781472587572","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42fa1260-a680-4035-8af9-d09df53442a1.jpg?v=1744169026","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scenes-of-intimacy-jennifer-cooke-9781472587572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}