Scritti sulla grazia / Pascal ; a cura di Gianfranco Morra

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991002484639707536
• Autore: Pascal, Blaise
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Forlì] : Edizioni di Ethica, 1963
• Descrizione fisica: 1 v. ; 21 cm
• Altri autori (Persone): Morra, Gianfranco
• Disciplina: 234
• Soggetti: Grazia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Opacity and the closet [[electronic resource] ] : queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / / Nicholas de Villiers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790275303321
• Autore: De Villiers Nicholas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8166-8029-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93353
• Soggetti: Queer theory; Self in literature; Homosexuality in literature
• 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: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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