Lawrence R. Schehr Books
French Gay Modernism
"Lawrence Schehr's French Gay Modernism is the only study devoted to analyzing these representations of male homosexuality in early twentieth-century French literature. Schehr explains how earlier...
Read MoreAlcibiades at the door
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 st...
Read MoreFigures of alterity
"Figures of Alterity studies French realistic fiction from 1830 to 1930, focusing primarily on the construction of subjects of discourse and action in the works of Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Mirbeau,...
Read MoreRendering French realism
Realist novels are usually seen as verisimilar representations of the world, and even when that verisimilitude is critically examined (as it has been by Marxist and feminist critics), the criticism...
Read MoreParts of an andrology
The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction...
Read MoreParts of an andrology
The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction...
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