Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory - Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film

Informationen zum Autor CALVIN THOMAS is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. Klappentext Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Zusammenfassung Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation! this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature! theory! and film. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abject (without) Apologies Beginning with a Bit of (be)hindsight. . . Re-enfleshing the Bright Boys; or, How Male Bodies Might Matter to Feminist Theory Must Desire Be Taken Literally? Cultural Droppings: On Bersani and Beckett 'Is What You Want Something You Can Discuss?' 'It's No Longer Your Film': Abjection and (the) Mulholland (death) Drive

Product details

• Authors: C Thomas, C. Thomas, Calvin Thomas
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780230600089
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60008-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 218 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Society & culture: general, Media and Communication, Literary theory, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Literature, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology