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Reflecting Narcissus : A Queer Aesthetic /

Extending the horizons of queer, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory, this book challenges the twentieth century's predominant understanding of narcissism--and the predominantly narcissistic qualities of male same-sex desire--as allegedly solipsistic, immature, sterile, antisocial, and apolitic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruhm, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reflecting Narcissus; 1. No Exit: Romantic Male Narcissism; 2. Reverse of the Mirror: Symbolism and Sexology; 3. Sons and Lovers, Birds and Johns; 4. Queer Queer Vladimir; 5. The Gothic in a Culture of Narcissism; Conclusion: Rejecting Narcissus; Notes; Works Cited; Index.