Desire :

Belsey, Catherine,

Desire : love stories in Western culture / Catherine Belsey. - x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Distributer: Al-Ahram.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura.

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English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.
Arthurian romances--History and criticism.



--Reading book

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