Research Catalog

Title

Human sexuality / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.

Publication

New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bloom, Harold.
• Hobby, Blake.

Description

xvi, 244 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Explores the role of human sexuality in literary works, such as, Lolita, Madame Bovary, Oedipus Rex, and Sons and lovers.

Series Statement

Bloom's literary themes

Uniform Title

Bloom's literary themes.

Subjects

• Sex (Psychology) in literature
• Sex in literature
• Sexual ethics in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Angels in America (Tony Kushner). "Queer Politics and the Politics of the Queer in Tony Kushner's Angels in America" Jennifer Glaser -- A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen). "Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House" Kristin Brunnemer -- Don Juan (Lord Byron). "Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron's Don Juan" Gary Dyer -- "Farewell to Love" (John Donne). "Two problems in Donne's 'Farewell to Love" Katherine T. Emerson -- Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin). "Giovanni's Room and Human Sexuality" Lorena Russell -- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov). "Sexuality in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita" Paul Benedict Grant -- Lyrics (Sappho). "Sappho and Human Sexuality" Sophie Mills -- Lysistrata (Aristophanes) and Symposium (Plato). "The Tragic Comedy of Sex in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Plato's Symposium" Brian S. Hook -- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert). "Madame Bovary" Charles Baudelaire -- "The Miller's Tale," Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer). "Sex and Punishment in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale" Michael G. Cornelius -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe). "Introduction" Mark Schorer -- Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare). "Much Ado About Nothing" Charles Cowden Clarke -- Oedipus Rex (Sophocles). "The Material and Sources of Dreams" Sigmund Freud -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce). "Joyce's Epiphanic Mode: Material Language and the Representation of Sexuality in Stephen Hero and Portrait" Joshua Jacobs -- The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope). "The Rape of the Lock: A Reification of the Myth of Passive Womanhood" Ellen Pollak -- Song of Myself(Walt Whitman). "Whitman's Song of Myself: Homosexual Dream and Vision" Robert K. Martin -- Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence). "Sons and Lovers: A Freudian Appreciation" Alfred Booth Kuttner -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy). "Study of Thomas Hardy" D.H. Lawrence -- "To His Coy Mistress" (Andrew Marvell). "Love and Lust in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'" Robert C. Evans.

Call Number

JFE 16-3024

ISBN

• 9780791098004
• 0791098001

LCCN

2008042986

OCLC

260231175

Title

Human sexuality / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.

Imprint

New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, ©2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloom's literary themes

Bloom's literary themes.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bloom, Harold.

Hobby, Blake.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3024