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Writing the voice of pleasure : heterosexuality without women
- Title
- Writing the voice of pleasure : heterosexuality without women / Anne Callahan.
- Author
- Callahan, Anne.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 273 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Writing the Voice of Pleasure makes a persuasive argument that the romantic couple of Western representation is not heterosexual, nor is it homosexual. With insightful new readings of renowned classical and popular works of Western culture from Tristan and Iseut to Seinfeld, Anne Callahan demonstrates that the heterosexual couple in this tradition is an illusion created by a male artist's assumption of a feminine voice to express desire. Named the "troubadour effect" for the first time here, this narrative tradition of male femininity - in which both masculinity and femininity are contained within masculinity - results in a culture of desire best described as "heterosexuality without women.""--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Occitania: The Culture of Love -- Ch. 2. Vagabondage in the Age of Chivalry -- Ch. 3. She and He: The Myth of Androgynous Fusion Defused -- Ch. 4. The Old Troubadour: George Sand -- Ch. 5. The Vagabond: A Modern Heroine -- Ch. 6. The Voice of Pleasure: The Troubadour Continuum.
- ISBN
- 0312239378
- 9780312239374
- LCCN
- 2001036146
- OCLC
- ocn123147569
- 123147569
- SCSB-1233706
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library