Sexuality and the Reading Encounter : Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, T...

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gtin13: 9780198158851 ISBN: 9780198158851 Book Title: Sexuality and the Reading Encounter : Identity and Desire in Prou Subject: European / French, General, Books & Reading Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Author: Emma Wilson Item Width: 5.4 in Number of Pages: 224 Pages Format: Hardcover Type: Textbook Publication Year: 1996 Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Psychology Item Length: 8.5 in Item Height: 0.7 in Publication Name: Sexuality and the Reading Encounter : Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous Item Weight: 14.8 Oz

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Sexuality and the Reading Encounter : Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tornier, and Cixous, Hardcover by Wilson, Emma, ISBN 0198158858, ISBN-13 9780198158851, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.