François Cusset

The Inverted Gaze

Queering the French Literary Classics in America
Übersetzer: Homel, David

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Produktbeschreibung

A book by the acclaimed intellectual historian on the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 243g
• ISBN-13: 9781551524108
• ISBN-10: 1551524104
• Artikelnr.: 33308996

Autorenporträt

François Cusset: François Cusset (French Theory) investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this daring and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics. He presents the foundations and rationale for American queer theory, and provides an overview of the reinterpretation of the French (and Anglo) literary canon from a queer perspective. David Homel: David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952. He has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General's Award for Literature, Canada's highest literary honor.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction: Holes in Glory
Perverse Readings
Disorienting the West
How to Take a Text
Inversion and Unfinishing
Anglofollies
ShaXXXpeare
From Mollies to Dandies
Drag Queens at Bouvines
Lancelot Uncovered
Heiress, Saint, Hermaphrodite
Renaissance and (De)tumescence
Montaigne Entwined
The Temptations of Dr. Rabelais
Trouble in the Clèves Family
The Libertines of Fuck-All
The Feints of Crébillon
The Nun Who Knew Too Much
The Bourgeoisie of the Inverted
Constant the Undecided
Lost Allusions
Baudelaire as Corolla
The Modern and its Muddle
A Brush with Gide
Proust Inside Herself
Genet De-penetrated
So As Not to Finish
Index