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1	Strangers to ourselves more books like this by Julia Kristeva add to wishlist This is a study of the stranger, both as a deep personal sense of self as distinct from that being known to outsiders, and as the foreigner, an alien in a different country or society not his or her own. The work covers the fields of literature and philosophy - from Greek tragedy and the Bible, through the literature of the Middle Ages, the ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $17.44! \| SVS
2	Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe more books like this by Ian Watt add to wishlist In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, ... see all copies from $6.74! new only from $22.00! \| SVS
3	Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History more books like this by Professor Cathy Caruth add to wishlist This work examines the links between the language of literature and the language of psychoanalysis in terms of their uses in the examination of trauma in the 20th century. By examining trauma in the 20th century, we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. The author ... see all copies from $14.24! new only from $14.92!
4	Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire more books like this by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick add to wishlist Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess. see all copies from $15.57! new only from $24.16! \| SVS
5	Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist Uncovering the body in order to know it has been the quest of narrative since the 18th century. In this tour through art and literature - from Rousseau, Flaubert, and Manet at the origins of modernism to Duras and Mapplethorpe in our own time - Peter Brooks sees the dynamic of narrative as propelled by desire to expose truth that can be found ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $197.70! \| first editions
6	Sex Variant Women in Literature more books like this by Jeannette H. Foster add to wishlist Essential history of lesbian literature. Must reading for the serious collector and researcher. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $34.54! \| first editions
7	A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition more books like this by Gregory Woods add to wishlist This history of literature in the West examines the manner in which homoerotic love has been viewed in various times and places, and illuminates the role of gay male writers, concluding that they played a central, not marginal, role in Western literature. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $21.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Uncanny: An Introduction more books like this by Nicholas Royle add to wishlist This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The Uncanny" (Das Unheimliche). Where he ... see all copies from $27.86! new only from $27.86!
9	Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness more books like this by Branimir Rieger (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.90! new only from $28.90!
10	Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann more books like this by Michael Maar, David Fernbach (Translator) add to wishlist The themes of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Thomas Mann's fiction are generally ascribed to the author's homosexuality, this, many critics have said, is the basis of the dynamic underlying his creative work in general, and the reason for Mann's panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $2.98! \| first editions
11	Toward a Recognition of Androgyny more books like this by Carolyn Heilbrun add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.55! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present more books like this by Claude J Summers (Editor) add to wishlist A guide to the writers, the works and the legacy of gay and lesbian literature. The book consists of nearly 400 signed entries varying in length from 550 to 5000 words. It is arranged in an A-to-Z format, with authors as diverse as Michelangelo and Armistead Maupin or Sappho and William Shakespeare. Subject entries include "AIDS literature," ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
13	Sappho is Burning more books like this by Page Duboia, Page DuBois add to wishlist A new reading of the sixth-century B. C. lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, and the psychoanalytic subject. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $15.85! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Translations of Power more books like this by Elizabeth J Bellamy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature more books like this by Chris Packard add to wishlist Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.08! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The idler's companion : an anthology of lazy literature more books like this by Tom Hodgkinson, Matthew De Abaitua add to wishlist Compiled by the editors of "The Idler" magazine, this work is an anthology of writers from throughout the ages - from the Bible to Boswell, to Burroughs. It explores the history and philosoph of indolence. see all copies from $4.97! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho more books like this by Professor Jane McIntosh Snyder add to wishlist -- Choice see all copies from $2.38! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
18 view cover	Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory more books like this by Lee Edelman add to wishlist "Homographesis" brings provocative and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman uses post-structuralist discourse and Lacanian psychoanalysis to revise and re-articulate the politics of sexuality. "Homographesis" addresses some of the most deeply-felt and hotly-debated issues of our time: sexual ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $38.98!
19 view cover	The Rhetoric of Sincerity more books like this by Ernst Van Alphen (Editor), Mieke Bal (Editor), Carel Smith (Editor) add to wishlist In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts - literature, but especially the visual and performing arts - and religion. Sincerity ... see all copies from $18.40! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities more books like this by David Levithan (Editor), Billy Merrell (Editor) add to wishlist This one-of-a-kind collection contains original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s--gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioning--on a variety of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first kisses, break-ups, and many others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The erotic motive in literature more books like this by Albert Mordell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing After 1885 more books like this by Joseph Bristow add to wishlist This text examines how and why effeminacy and empire were so very much at odds at the time of the Oscar Wilde trial in 1895. Exploring the late-Victorian association of effeminate behaviour with male homosexual identity, Joseph Bristow looks at how a number of gay writers negotiated the stigma attached to the man-loving man of letters. Chapters ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation more books like this by Professor Wendy Doniger add to wishlist Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $4.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination more books like this by Ruth Vanita add to wishlist This work looks at the legacy of love between women in the English canon from romantic to postcolonial literature. It examines layers of homoeroticism in works by male and female authors, and demonstrates the place of lesbian desire in the Western literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read more books like this by Robert Drake add to wishlist A ranking of the best books ever written by gay men, compiled by an award-winning editor and literary agent. see all copies from $5.99! new only from $178.56! \| first editions

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