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Autore |
De Villiers Nicholas |
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Titolo |
Opacity and the closet [[electronic resource] ] : queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / / Nicholas de Villiers |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Queer theory |
Self in literature |
Homosexuality in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Opacities: queer strategies -- Confessions of a masked philosopher: anonymity and identification in Foucault and Guibert -- Matte figures: Roland Barthes's ethics of meaning -- "What do you have to say for yourself?" Warhol's opacity -- Unseen Warhol/seeing Barthes -- Andy Warhol up-tight: Warhol's effects -- Conclusion: The interview as multi-mediated object. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of "the closet" when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American and French culture: the philosopher Michel Foucault, the literary critic Roland Barthes, and the pop artist Andy Warhol. Nicholas de Villiers proposes a new approach to these cultural icons that accounts for the queerness of their works and public personas. Rather than reading their self-presentations as "closeted," de Villiers suggests that they invent and deploy productive strategies of "opacity" that resist the closet and the confessional discou |
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