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Autore |
Schiesari Juliana |
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Titolo |
Polymorphous domesticities [[electronic resource] ] : pets, bodies, and desire in four modern writers / / Juliana Schiesari |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-42595-5 |
9786613425959 |
0-520-95231-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (143 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Animals in literature |
Human-animal relationships in literature |
Pets in literature |
Sex (Psychology) in literature |
Social structure in literature |
Social values 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton -- 2. Colette at Home -- 3. Romancing the Beast: J. R. Ackerley's Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers-Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only did they live outside the norms of the heterosexual family unit, they also pursued and wrote about alternative lifestyles that prominently involved animals. Through close readings from a feminist perspective, Juliana Schiesari reconfigures the ways in which interspecies relationships inflect domestic spheres, reading the "Other" |
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