1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458563403321

Autore

Quiroga Jose <1959->

Titolo

Law of desire [[electronic resource] /] / José Quiroga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-46748-4

9786612467486

1-55152-350-7

Descrizione fisica

155 p. : ill

Collana

A queer film classic

Disciplina

791.43/72

Soggetti

Gays in motion picturs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455468703321

Autore

Berrong Richard M. <1951->

Titolo

In love with a handsome sailor : the emergence of gay identity and the novels of Pierre Loti / / Richard M. Berrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-02306-3

9786612023064

1-4426-7604-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Romance Series

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Male homosexuality in literature

Gay men in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on References and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Was Julien Viaud Gay? An Examination of the Evidence -- Chapter Two. Contextualized Suggestion and Ambiguity: Aziyadé -- Chapter Three. Discovering a Fuller Range of Sexuality: The Marriage of Loti -- Chapter Four. A Plea for Sexual Understanding: The Story of a Spahi -- Chapter Five. Man (Men?) in Love: My Brother Yves -- Chapter Six. Different Contexts, Different Sexualities: Iceland Fisherman -- Chapter Seven. The Origin of Sexual Ambiguity in the Madame Butterfly Legend: Madame Chrysanthemum -- Chapter Eight. A Proustian Probing into Childhood and the Beginnings of Sexuality: The Story of a Child -- Chapter Nine. Works of Self-Doubt: A Phantom from the East and Sailor -- Chapter Ten. Creating the Allegorical Gay Novel: Ramuntcho -- Chapter Eleven. A Defence of Homosexuals and a Consciousness Raising: The Awakened -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Writing at first anonymously and later under the pen name Pierre Loti, French author Julien Viaud (1850-1923) produced a series of fictions



that sympathetically portrayed male same-sex desire and its accompanying societal conflicts. Due to the constraints of the time, Viaud had to develop various strategies for discussing his subject covertly; his success in doing so is demonstrated by the great critical and commercial success he enjoyed during his lifetime, which included his election to the French Academy at age forty-one.Richard Berrong presents a gay reading of the novels and novellas of Julien Viaud, chronologically tracing his development of a distinct homosexual identity and the strategies that he employed to discuss it in a way that would not be obvious to the general public. In so doing, Berrong asserts that Viaud's development of a homosexual identity undermined and realigned dominant constructions of masculinity, presented the need for gay community, and elaborated the role of literature for gay men. The first book-length gay reading of Viaud's corpus, this work will make an important contribution not only to the study of Viaud, but also to the study of gay and lesbian history, culture, and literature.