Desirea Memoir

In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire.

List of contents

Preface
1. 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

About the author

Jonathan Dollimore is a literary theorist, specialising in the fields of Renaissance literature (especially drama), art, censorship and the history of ideas, and a trailblazer in the study of gender and queer theory. At the University of Sussex, he co-founded the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He later became Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Dollimore is credited with making major interventions in debates on sexuality and desire, transgression, perversion and decadence within cultural theory.

Summary

In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Dollimore
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786615008
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-500-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs