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Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture
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Literary TheoryHuman ConditionCultural TheoryCultural StudiesSexual CulturesLiterary CriticismCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesPostmodern LoveLiterary StudyPost-colonial CriticismPoeticsPart IiCultureLiterary HistoryHumanitiesRomance StudiesLove StoriesHauntologyArtsCultural Anthropology
Illustrations. Preface. Part I: Desire Now:. 1. Prologue: Writing About Desire. 2. Reading Love Stories. 3. Desire in Theory: Freud, Lacan, Derrida. 4. Postmodern Love. Part II: Desire at Other Times:. 5. Adultery in King Arthura s Court. 6. John Donnea s Worlds of Desire. 7. Demon Lovers. 8. Futures: Desire and Utopia. Notes. Index.