Masculinity, psychoanalysis, straight queer theory : essays on abjection in literature, mass culture, and film

Author(s)

• Thomas, Calvin

Bibliographic Information

Masculinity, psychoanalysis, straight queer theory : essays on abjection in literature, mass culture, and film

Calvin Thomas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Note

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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

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Details

• NCID: BB05395439
• ISBN:
  • 9780230600089
• LCCN: 2007041259
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 224 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.A23
  • DC22 : 809/.933521
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Abjection in literature
  • LCSH : Abjection in motion pictures
  • LCSH : Masculinity in literature
  • LCSH : Masculinity in motion pictures