Author: Pierre Loti
Publisher: Kegan Paul International
ISBN: 9780710312051
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This volume consists of a lengthy introduction by Henry James and his selection of Loti's writings. The work is a gem of literary criticism and re-creates James's experience of surrendering to Loti's prose.
Author: Pierre Loti
Publisher: Westminster : A. Constable
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Category : Preaching
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Zeyneb Hanoum
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Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: Louis Labat
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Author: Peter James Turberfield
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042023635
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire offers an original analysis of patterns of unconscious desire observable in the life and work of the French orientalist writer Pierre Loti. It aims to reconcile attitudes and conduct that have been regarded as contradictory and not amenable to analysis by locating the unconscious urges that motivate them. It looks at the ambiguous feelings Loti expresses towards his mother, the conflicting desires inherent in his bisexuality, and his deeply ambiguous sense of a cultural identity as expressed through his cross-cultural transvestism. The political implications of this reappraisal are also considered, offering a potential reassessment of the apparently exploitative nature of much of Loti's writing. This new reading in terms of the unconscious not only serves as a way of understanding inconsistencies, but also suggests how such new interpretations can offer an alternative way of viewing the hierarchies of power his work portrays on both a sexual and political level. This volume is consequently of interest to those interested in gender studies and sexual politics, and offers a way of appreciating writing that might otherwise appear dated and embarrassingly sexist and colonialist in content to twenty-first century readers.
Author: Zeyneb (hanoum.)
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Richard M. Berrong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Writing at first anonymously and later under the pen name Pierre Loti, French author Julien Viaud (1850-1923) produced a series of fictions that sympathetically portrayed male same-sex desire and its accompanying societal conflicts. Due to the constraints of the time, Viaud had to develop various strategies for discussing his subject covertly; his success in doing so is demonstrated by the great critical and commercial success he enjoyed during his lifetime, which included his election to the French Academy at age forty-one. Richard Berrong presents a gay reading of the novels and novellas of Julien Viaud, chronologically tracing his development of a distinct homosexual identity and the strategies that he employed to discuss it in a way that would not be obvious to the general public. In so doing, Berrong asserts that Viaud's development of a homosexual identity undermined and realigned dominant constructions of masculinity, presented the need for gay community, and elaborated the role of literature for gay men. The first book-length gay reading of Viaud's corpus, this work will make an important contribution not only to the study of Viaud, but also to the study of gay and lesbian history, culture, and literature.
Author: August Nemo
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968583949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Pierre Lotiwhich areMadame Chrysantheme and The Story of a Child. Novels selected for this book: - Madame Chrysantheme - The Story of a Child This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 684
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