Desire: A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Dollimore has held professorships at the universities of Sussex and York and lectured and taught throughout the world. He was co-founder (with Alan Sinfield) of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex. His landmark works include Radical Tragedy (1984), Political Shakespeare (with Alan Sinfield,1985), Sexual Dissidence (1991), Death Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998) and Sex, Literature and Censorship (2001). Klappentext For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. Part autobiography, part meditation, Desire: A Memoir reveals the existential sources of his inspiration. At once extreme and exemplary, it fearlessly explores the challenge of passion, of gay sex and suicidal depression. Desire: a Memoir is a raw, provocative and often moving account of the life within, beneath, and beyond critical commitment.

List of contents

Preface1. Life-Changing Accident
2. Loss and Change
3. Life-Changing Wager
4. New York: City of Many Sirens
5. 'Death Is In My Sight Today" - 1990-1
6. On Loss
7. Sydney, 1988
8. Reckonings
9. Oblivion and Touch (1991)
Index

Report

A meditation in the form of a memoir. Rather than a chronological account of Dollimore's life, the narrative is fragmentary, held together by a constant need to unravel the meanings of desire and surmount episodes of deep depression . Dollimore is a fine and intelligent writer who combines personal reminiscences with philosophical musings in ways that stretch the reader . The book ends with an homage to a now dead friend and a sense that in grief there is a renewed desire for life, a fitting conclusion to a book that's both emotionally and intellectually rewarding. The Gay & Lesbian Review

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Dollimore, Jonathan (Independent Scholar Dollimore
• Assisted by: Joanna Picciotto (Editor), John Schad (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781350023109
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02310-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Beyond Criticism; Beyond Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary theory, Gay Studies (Gay Men), Relating to gay people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics