Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous
By (author): "Emma Wilson"
Genres:Feminist Theory books
Publish Date:
1996
ISBN0198158858
ISBN139780198158851
AsinSexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous
Original titleSexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous
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.