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In Discourses of Desire, Linda S. Kauffman looks at a neglected genre-the love letters written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, Kauffman explores through provocative and incisive readings the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general.Among the texts Kauffman treats are Ovid's Heroides, Heloise's letters to Abelard, The Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Clarissa, Jane Eyre, The Turn of the Screw, Absalom, Absalom!, and The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Todorov, Genette, Barthes, Bakhtin, Lacan, and Derrida, Kauffman demonstrates how the codes of love shape intertextual dialogues among these works, in which each innovation in the genre is simultaneously a response to and a departure from the one preceding it. Throughout, she pays particular attention to the unsettling questions that the genre's shared thematic preoccupations and formal characteristics pose for concepts of gender, authorship, genre, and mimesis.Drawing on poststructuralism and psychoanalytic criticism to extend the boundaries of feminist theory, Kauffman makes a significant contribution to contemporary critical discussions of writing and gender, mimesis and narrative discourse, and poetics and politics. Her book, broad in its scope and far-reaching in its implications, will be valuable reading for anyone interested in feminist criticism, literary theory, and literary history.

Fiction & Short Stories --- Gender Studies

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Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Iconography --- 82:7 --- Literatuur en kunst --- Arts, Modern --- Fantasy in art. --- Feminism and the arts. --- Human body in literature. --- Human figure in art. --- Postmodernism. --- Psychoanalyse --- cultuur en religie --- cultuur en religie. --- Body, Human, in literature. --- Human figure in art --- Human body in literature --- Fantasy in art --- Feminism and the arts --- Postmodernism --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Fine Arts - General --- 82:7 Literatuur en kunst --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Arts and feminism --- Arts --- Corps humain --- Fantasmes --- Féminisme et arts --- Postmodernisme --- Dans l'art --- Dans la littérature. --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs.

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Comparative literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- 82-6 --- Desire in literature --- Epistolary fiction --- -Letter writing in literature --- Letters in literature --- Love in literature --- Love-letters in literature --- Women and literature --- Femininity in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Literature --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Epistolary novels --- Epistolary short stories --- Epistolary stories --- Novels, Epistolary --- Novels in letters --- Short stories, Epistolary --- Letters --- Brief --- History and criticism --- Desire in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- Letter writing in literature. --- Letters in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Love-letters in literature. --- Women and literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82-6 Brief --- Letter writing in literature --- 82-6 Letters. Art of letter-writing. Correspondence. Genuine letters. Other works in epistolary form --- Letters. Art of letter-writing. Correspondence. Genuine letters. Other works in epistolary form

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Depth psychology --- United States of America

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Epistolary fiction --- Fiction --- Letters in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism.