| Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory Twenty-Third Edition Contributor(s): Restuccia, Frances L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080475182X ISBN-13: 9780804751827 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2006 Annotation: " Taking up recent debates in Lacanian theory between the " ethics of desire" and a more militant celebration of jouissance, Amorous Acts provocatively weaves these debates together with readings of some major texts of literary modernism (Forster, Woolf and Lawrence), and intervenes in contemporary discussions of queer theory, perversion, and the authentic act. This book moves debates well beyond the familiar ruts of Hegel, Saussure and sexual difference in which Lacan's thought has become mired." -- Charles Shepherdson, SUNY University of Albany " Amorous Acts speculates on the political effects of a distinctively psychoanalytic ethics, contending that among the ruins of psychic coherence may be discerned the foundation for a new form of social organization. More perceptively than other Lacanian critics, Frances Restuccia shows how the politics of desubjectivation have been debated in queer theory for some time. Her provocative contribution to this debate, composed in relentless pursuit of a queerer world, is sure to engender controversy." -- Tim Dean, Professor of English, University at Buffalo (SUNY) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2006011303 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.3" W x 9.08" (0.93 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay - Sex & Gender - Lesbian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Amorous Acts uses psychoanalytic concepts to show how queer theory is operating to put in place a non-heterosexist social order. |