Male jealousy : literature and film / / Louis Lo

• Autore: Lo Louis
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , [2008]; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Jealousy in literature; Men in literature; European literature - History and criticism; Jealousy in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-179) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Jealousy: This Strange Passion; Chapter 1 Amigos: Gilda; Chapter 2 Paranoia: Freud and the Schreber Case; Chapter 3 Property: Cervantes' El celoso extremeno; Chapter 4 Curiosity: El curioso impertinente; Chapter 5 Envy: Othello; Chapter 6 Disappointment: Proust's Un Amour de Swann; Chapter 7 Belatedness: A la recherche du temps perdu; Chapter 8 Revenge: Almodovar's Came Tremula; Bibliography; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), Lo argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy and within what Derrida characterises as logocentricism, where to love is the desire to be loved, and where love cannot be guaranteed in any form of sexual relationship. Contrasting the difference between jealousy and its closely linked concept, envy, this book explor
• Titolo autorizzato: Male jealousy
• ISBN: 1-283-20678-1; 9786613206787; 1-4411-6688-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812456103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.