Gide''s Bent - Sexuality, Politics, Writing

Zusatztext This subtle and intricate study traces Gide's ambivalences with some sympathy and a good deal of rigour. Klappentext Gide's Bent investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of André Gide, one of the first "out" modern writers. Focusing on his writing of the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality and also the years of his most notable left-wing political activity, Gide's Bent interrogates both the political content of his reflections on his homosexuality and the ways his sexuality inflected his political interests. Provocative examination of one of the first openly homosexual writers, André Gide. Zusammenfassung This study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide. Focusing on his work in the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, the text shows how Gide's sexuality reflected his political interests.

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• Authors: Michael Lucey, Michael (Assistant Professor of French and Lucey, Michael (Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature Lucey, Lucey Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.1995
• EAN: 9780195080865
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508086-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Ideologies of Desire; Ideologies of Desire
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form