01928nam a2200325 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082002600131100002500157245011700182264003700299300001400336336002600350337002800376338002700404520090100431650006101332650002301393650004801416650002601464650002201490650001901512650002601531650002601557999001901583281431InACL20260929164339.0260929s1996    xxk               0 eng d  a9780198158851  a0198158858  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a843.91093538bWIL2231 aWilson, Emmaeauthor10aSexuality and the reading encounter :bidentity and desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous /cEmma Wilson 1aOxford :bClarendon Press,c1996  a210 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aCan 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 0aFrench fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. 0aSex in literature. 0aBooks and reading -- Psychological aspects. 0aIdentity (Psychology) 0aBooks and reading 0aFrench fiction 0aHistory and criticism 0aPsychological aspects  c633435d633435