Love's litany the writing of modern homoerotics
Loves' Litany is the first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, and examines the ways in which nineteenth-century conceptions of love have shaped contemporary conceptions of lesbian and gay subjectivity. The book focuses on four features...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Stanford, Calif.
Stanford Univ. Press
1994
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Geschichte 1900-1990
> Homoseksualiteit
> Letterkunde
> Geschichte
> Literatur
> Erotic literature, English
> History and criticism
> Erotic literature, French
> Gay erotic literature
> Gay men in literature
> Gays' writings, English
> Gays' writings, French
> Homosexuality and literature
> History
> Lesbians in literature
> Love in literature
> Homosexualität
> Großbritannien
> Hochschulschrift
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Loves' Litany is the first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, and examines the ways in which nineteenth-century conceptions of love have shaped contemporary conceptions of lesbian and gay subjectivity. The book focuses on four features of romantic love that are central to both nineteenth-century erotic philosophy and twentieth-century homoeroticism: complementary merger, the idea that "opposites attract"; love-death (Liebestod), the figuration of love as fatal union; Wertherism, the association of love with sadness, solitude, and suicide; and "crystallization," Stendhal's term for believing a beloved to be perfect. |
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| Beschreibung: | Teilw. zugl.: Brown Univ., Diss. |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 194 S. |
| ISBN: | 0804722994 0-8047-2299-4 0804723451 0-8047-2345-1 |