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1	Homos more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani American media now regularly focuses an often sympathetic beam on gay life - and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and lesbian studies at dozens of universities, openly gay columnists and even editors at national mainstream publications, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Intimacies more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination - though equally important is their shared sense that by ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $13.61! \| SVS
3	A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani see all copies from $4.59! first editions
4	The Culture of Redemption more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani Leo Bersani does battle with the pervasive idea that art can save humanity from the catastrophes of history and sexuality. He argues that this trivializes both art and life itself, in a deceptive and dangerous way. Chapter subjects include Proust, Freud, Baudelaire, Malraux and Bataille. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
5	Caravaggio's Secrets more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In this text the authors emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads them to conclude that the interest of these works is in their ... see all copies from $12.34! new only from $37.30! \| first editions
6	Caravaggio more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit "Caravaggio" (1986) is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. However, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.82! \| SVS
7	The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani Analyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories. see all copies from $17.94! new only from $26.50! \| SVS
8	The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani see all copies from $45.00! first editions
9	Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais more books like this by Professor Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's paintings often can? Why immobilize and daze us, as Alain Resnais' films sometimes will? Why, Leo Bersnai and Ulysse Dutoit ask, would three acknowledged masters of their media make work deliberately opaque and inhospitable to an audience? This book ... see all copies from $24.14!

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