Libidinal Currents
Author | : Joseph Allen Boone |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998-02-03 |
ISBN-13 | : 0226064670 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226064673 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Download or read book Libidinal Currents written by Joseph Allen Boone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to scholar Joseph Allen Boone, modern fiction with its strong currents of sexuality creates a poetics of the perverse with the power to influence how we think. Challenging common theories, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A landmark work in the study of modernist fiction and the study of sexuality and gender.