Masculinity, psychoanalysis, straight queer theory [electronic resource] : essays on abjection in literature, mass culture, and film / Calvin Thomas

Author: Thomas, Calvin, 1956-
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages)

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Contents

Introduction : abject (without) apologies -- Beginning with a bit of (be)hindsight ... -- Re-enfleshing the bright boys; or, How male bodies might matter to feminist theory -- Must desire be taken literally? -- Cultural droppings : on Bersani and Beckett -- Is what you want something you can discuss? -- "It's no longer your film" : abjection and (the) Mulholland (death) Drive.

Summary

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

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ISBN

9780230611856 (electronic bk.)
0230611850 (electronic bk.)

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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-215) and index.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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