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Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature / / Graham Thompson



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Autore: Thompson Graham <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature / / Graham Thompson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 813.009355
813/.009/355
Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism
Offices in literature
Sex (Psychology) in literature
Sex in literature
Men in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-243) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Managing Desire; 1."Dead letters . . . dead men?":The Rhetoric of the Oce in Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 2. "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into":The Business of Sexuality in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 3. "A dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea":The Businessman and the Fairy Child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt; Part Two: Postwar Unsettlement; 4. "The spirit of work weaves a magic wand":From Babbittry to Gray Flannelvia Tropical Incorporation
5. "Opaque glass bricks":Sloan Wilson's Gray Flannel Man in the Queer Organization 6. "I ascend like a condor,while falling to pieces":Fear, Paranoia, and Self-Pity in Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Part Three: A Word for Windows; 7. "My own plein-air Arnality bared to the sky":Shoelaces, Social Energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and The Fermata; 8. "Frank Lloyd Oop":Microserfs, Modern Migration, and the Architecture of the 1990's; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combin
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ISBN: 1-58729-440-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820809703321
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