Seduction and theory : readings of gender, representation, and rhetoric

by Dianne Hunter

Paper Book, 1989

Status

Checked out

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1989.

Description

Essays discuss the conception of seduction in the visual arts, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and postmodernist theory.

User reviews

LibraryThing member amydross
The book is divided up into four sections of three articles each, and only the last section is really about seduction and theory as such -- this is also the best section, each article being surprising, insightful, and a pleasure to read. The other sections are variously about Film and Seduction,
Show More
Psychoanalysis and Seduction, and Literature and Seduction. There's interesting stuff in those sections too (especially the Psychoanalysis one) but nothing as useful to me.
Show Less

Language

Physical description

vi, 250 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0252060636 / 9780252060632
Page: 0.1557 seconds