Sexuality and the Reading Encounter
Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 1996
- ISBN 9780198158851
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 225x147x18 mm
- Weight 429 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Sexuality and the Reading Encounter is a provocative new study of the relations between reading and desire. Emma Wilson makes analyses of scenarios of pleasure and pain, eroticism and loss, in texts by Prouts, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous. Her argument emerges from current debates in feminist and queer theory. It cuts across divisions between male and female, gay and straight, arguing for a new relation between fantasy and identity.
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Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust, Duras, Tournier and Cixous, her study reveals the formative potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter.
Drawing on an understanding of identity as performative, alienated and fictitious, this study argues that the fictions we read act as mirrors and decoys displaying seductive images of intelligible sexual identities. The texts chosen for discussion here draw attention to the strategies by which identity is constructed textually. They work thus to frame the reading encounter and to highlight its formative power. In analysis of these texts, this study works to cut across the axes of homosexuality and heterosexuality, offering an alternative focus on the independence of fantasy and identity.
a highly intelligent, up-to-date, well-informed study ... Wilson skilfully moves through the writings of several theorists, paying homage or disagreeing ... she is always resourceful, and often insightful, in her interpretations. Her readings are astute on all four writers.
