Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpe...
Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpe...
Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpern.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
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N820.9353/29
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English
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125 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Shakespeare's Perfume -- Ch. 2. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W. H. -- Ch. 3. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood -- Ch. 4. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
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Pennsylvania
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c2002.
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"Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual - and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated...
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Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpern.
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[New cultural studies]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-121) and index.
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c2002.
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N820.9353/29
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74VverXDOlqO
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0812236610
9780812236613 (acid-free paper)
0812236610 (acid-free paper)
9780812236613 :
0812236610 :
9780812236613
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820.9353
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991017100119702626
