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Proust´s Lesbianism

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Description for Proust´s Lesbianism Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 228.

For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction—his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu.

Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"—his term for women who love other women—as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as ancillary to its accounts of Sodom and its meditations on time and memory. Ladenson instead demonstrates ... Read more

A vital contribution to the fields of queer theory and of French literature and culture, Ladenson's book marks a new stage in Proust studies and provides a fascinating chapter in the history of a literary masterpiece's reception.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473500
SKU
V9780801473500
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About Elisabeth Ladenson
Elisabeth Ladenson is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Reviews for Proust´s Lesbianism
A remarkably close reading of Proust's remarkably long novel, Ladenson's persuasive book will change the way we interpret Proust.... Ladenson's prose is also quite gratifying to read—a rare thing in the Academy that makes this erudite book both provocative and immensely entertaining.
Virginia Quarterly Review
Carefully orchestrated.... Ladenson scours Proust's early work... and converts the scattered evidence of ... Read more

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