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008			260927s1996 xxk 0 eng d
020			_a9780198158851
020			_a0198158858
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a843.91093538 _bWIL _223
100	1		_aWilson, Emma _eauthor
245	1	0	_aSexuality and the reading encounter : _bidentity and desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous / _cEmma Wilson
264		1	_aOxford : _bClarendon Press, _c1996
300			_a210 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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
650		0	_aFrench fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aSex in literature.
650		0	_aBooks and reading -- Psychological aspects.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology)
650		0	_aBooks and reading
650		0	_aFrench fiction
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aPsychological aspects
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