Epistemology of the closet

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Epistemology of the closet

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

(Penguin social sciences)

Penguin, 1994

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First published in the U.S., 1990

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Looks at the central importance of the homosexual/heterosexual dichotomy in the Western culture of the last century, in particular by a series of provocative readings of Melville, Wilde, James and Proust. A book of both political and literary importance.

Table of Contents

  • Epistemology of the closet
  • some binarisms (1) - Billy Budd, after the homosexual
  • some binarisms (2) - Wilde, Nietzche, and the sentimental relations of the male body
  • the beast in the closet - James and the writing of homosexual panic
  • Proust and the spectacle of the closet.

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