Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism

Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism
ISBN-10
0226064670
ISBN-13
9780226064673
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
513
Language
English
Published
1998-02-03
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Joseph Allen Boone

Description

According to scholar Joseph Allen Boone, modern fiction with its strong currents of sexuality creates a poetics of the perverse with the power to influence how we think. Challenging common theories, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A landmark work in the study of modernist fiction and the study of sexuality and gender.

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