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Sexuality and the reading encounter : (Record no. 633196)
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| fixed length control field | 01928nam a2200325 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260927s1996 xxk 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780198158851 |
| ISBN | 0198158858 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 843.91093538 |
| Item number | WIL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wilson, Emma |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sexuality and the reading encounter : |
| Sub Title | identity and desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Emma Wilson |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 210 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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.Drawing on an understanding of identity as performative, alienated and fictitious, this study argues that the fictions we read act as mirrors and decoys displaying seductive images of intelligible sexual identities. The texts chosen for discussion here draw attention to the strategies by which identity is constructed textually. They work thus to frame the reading encounter and to highlight its formative power.In analysis of these texts, this study |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. |
| Topical Term | Sex in literature. |
| Topical Term | Books and reading -- Psychological aspects. |
| Topical Term | Identity (Psychology) |
| Topical Term | Books and reading |
| Topical Term | French fiction |
| Topical Term | History and criticism |
| Topical Term | Psychological aspects |
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| -- | Oxford : |
| -- | Clarendon Press, |
| -- | 1996 |
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| -- | unmediated |
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| -- | rdamedia |
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| -- | rdacarrier |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 27.09.2026 | 843.91093538 WIL | 281431 | 27.09.2026 | Books |