Description: Further DetailsTitle: Amorous ActsCondition: NewSubtitle: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer TheoryISBN-10: 080475182XEAN: 9780804751827ISBN: 9780804751827Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/17/2006Description: Amorous Acts illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs psychoanalysis to show how queer theory is operating to effect a non-heterosexist social order. Although the Lacanian subject in Love can only experience his/her self-shattering, Lacan's concept of Love is seen here as politically useful. This study breaks down Lacanian Love into three different forms and tries to unveil the danger, as well as especially the cultural potential, of the most intense of these variations. To arrive at this position, Amorous Acts first works out the meaning of Lacan's "ethics of desire" by analyzing several modern British novels (by E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Graham Greene), as well as some contemporary films (Breaking the Waves, Seventh Heaven, and Damage) and then by arguing with Zizek through a reading of Kieslowski's film "White". Finally, queer theory as it has been brought into being by Foucault, Halperin, Bersani, Butler, and Edelman is put into relation with Lacan's notion of the authentic act. Queer theory engages Lacan's conception of self-shattering Love to traverse the pernicious fundamental fantasy of heterosexist reproduction.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 422gAuthor: Frances L. RestucciaGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Films & TVRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Amorous Acts
Title: Amorous Acts
Subtitle: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory
ISBN-10: 080475182X
EAN: 9780804751827
ISBN: 9780804751827
Release Date: 07/17/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Amorous Acts : Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Semiotics & Theory, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Frances L. Restuccia
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Psychology
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
