Opacity and the closet [[electronic resource] ] : queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / / Nicholas de Villiers
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De Villiers Nicholas
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Opacity and the closet [[electronic resource] ] : queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / / Nicholas de Villiers
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.93353 |
| Soggetto topico: | Queer theory |
| Self in literature | |
| Homosexuality in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Opacity and the closet |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8029-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461362503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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