Surfacing the Politics of Desire : : Literature, Feminism and Myth / / Rajeshwari S. Vallury.

A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pierre et Jean, or the Erring of Oedipus
  • 2. The Error of Narcissus
  • 3. The Three Virtues of Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality
  • 4. Becoming-flower, Becomingimperceptible: Oedipus, Narcissus, and Their Lines of Flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu
  • 5. Beyond the Dialectic of Self and Other: Towards a Thought of the Surface
  • 6. 'Une jouissance d'épiderme': From Platonic Height and Depth to the Deleuzian Surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index