Epistemology of the closet /

Looks at the central importance of the homosexual/heterosexual dichotomy in the Western culture of the last century, in particular by a series of provocative readings of Melville, Wilde, James and Proust. A book of both political and literary importance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1990]
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Table of Contents:
  • Epistemology of the closet
  • Some binarisms (I) / Billy Budd: after the homosexual
  • Some binarisms (II) / Wilde, Nietzsche, and the sentimental relations of the male body
  • The beast in the closet / James and the writing of homosexual panic
  • Proust and the spectacle of the closet.