Male jealousy: literature and film
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Main Author: Lo, Louis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum ©2008
Series:Continuum literary studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-179) and index
Introduction: Jealousy: This Strange Passion -- Ch. 1. Amigos: Gilda -- Ch. 2. Paranoia: Freud and the Schreber Case -- Ch. 3. Property: Cervantes' El celoso extremeno -- Ch. 4. Curiosity: El curioso impertinente -- Ch. 5. Envy: Othello -- Ch. 6. Disappointment: Proust's Un Amour de Swann -- Ch. 7. Belatedness: A la recherche du temps perdu -- Ch. 8. Revenge: Almodovar's Carne Tremula
Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), Lo argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy and within what Derrida characterises as logocentricism, where to love is the desire to be loved, and where love cannot be guaranteed in any form of sexual relationship. Contrasting the difference between jealousy and its closely linked concept, envy, this book explor
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
ISBN:9781441166883
1441166882
9780826499554
0826499554

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