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Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse.

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“This fascinating book operates on the simple, fundamental premise that homosexuality inhabits a social place between public and private, and that, consequently, it serves as a sort of deep structure of knowledge, narrative, and identity. In five compelling and provocative chapters, Schehr works through the ramifications of his theory, uncovering unexpected alliances between and among his subjects, in the process giving us original, challenging, and potentially polemical insights.”—Thomas DiPiero, University of Rochester

Table of Contents
Abbreviations; Introduction; Heterosexual surrealism and the problem of Rene Crevel; Sartre as midwife; On vacation with Gide and Barthes; Cippus: Guibert; Index.

Alcibiades at the Door

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1995
      ISBN13: 9780804724678, 978-0804724678
      ISBN10: 0804724679
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse.

      Trade Review
      “This fascinating book operates on the simple, fundamental premise that homosexuality inhabits a social place between public and private, and that, consequently, it serves as a sort of deep structure of knowledge, narrative, and identity. In five compelling and provocative chapters, Schehr works through the ramifications of his theory, uncovering unexpected alliances between and among his subjects, in the process giving us original, challenging, and potentially polemical insights.”—Thomas DiPiero, University of Rochester

      Table of Contents
      Abbreviations; Introduction; Heterosexual surrealism and the problem of Rene Crevel; Sartre as midwife; On vacation with Gide and Barthes; Cippus: Guibert; Index.

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