TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Emma
TI  - Sexuality and the reading encounter: identity and desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous 
SN  - 9780198158851
U1  - 843.91093538 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Sex in literature
KW  - Books and reading -- Psychological aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - French fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Psychological aspects
N2  - 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
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