Desire: A Memoir: Beyond Criticism
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350023109
ISBN-10: 1350023108
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Beyond Criticism
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350023108
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Beyond Criticism
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A
unique
critical-autobiographical
reflection
on
sexuality
and
culture
by
the
major
cultural
critic
Jonathan
Dollimore
Notă biografică
Jonathan
Dollimorehas
held
professorships
at
the
universities
of
Sussex
and
York
and
lectured
and
taught
throughout
the
world.
He
was
co-founder
(with
Alan
Sinfield)
of
the
Centre
for
the
Study
of
Sexual
Dissidence
at
the
University
of
Sussex.
His
landmark
works
includeRadical
Tragedy(1984),Political
Shakespeare(with
Alan
Sinfield,1985),Sexual
Dissidence(1991),Death
Desire
and
Loss
in
Western
Culture(1998)
andSex,
Literature
and
Censorship(2001).
Cuprins
Preface1.
Life-Changing
Accident2.
Loss
and
Change3.
Life-Changing
Wager4.
New
York:
City
of
Many
Sirens5.
'Death
Is
In
My
Sight
Today"
-
1990-16.
On
Loss7.
Sydney,
19888.
Reckonings9.
Oblivion
and
Touch
(1991)Index
Recenzii
A
meditation
in
the
form
of
a
memoir.
Rather
than
a
chronological
account
of
Dollimore's
life,
the
narrative
is
fragmentary,
held
together
by
a
constant
need
to
unravel
the
meanings
of
desire
and
surmount
episodes
of
deep
depression
.
Dollimore
is
a
fine
and
intelligent
writer
who
combines
personal
reminiscences
with
philosophical
musings
in
ways
that
stretch
the
reader
.
The
book
ends
with
an
homage
to
a
now
dead
friend
and
a
sense
that
in
grief
there
is
a
renewed
desire
for
life,
a
fitting
conclusion
to
a
book
that's
both
emotionally
and
intellectually
rewarding.
A delightfully cheeky yet earnest reflection on the utopian and pedestrian possibilities of sexual life . There is much to admire here: the dewy beauty of Dollimore's limpid prose, the way his punctuation marks, like so many finely gloved fingers, point out the words and phrases to savor. There's the self-aware humor of a rebel-cum-scholar with a working-class background who clearly revels in a love of language that is never too far from the love of men . [In] Dollimore's memoir ... desire retains its glimmer of utopian potential to bring us to a place not yet known save in our dreams.
Jonathan Dollimore, a working class man who became one of our most thoughtful intellectuals, has written a memoir that meditates on sex, identity, boredom and ecstasy. It is a rich, sad, wise book.
Jonathan Dollimore is unafraid to say what he thinks and feels, and the result reads like a liberation.
[Dollimore] describes his own experiences with great vividness and often humour, and with the instincts of a true storyteller . One reads on, endlessly fascinated by the strange details of his life.
[A] moving and honest exploration of the self through the different kinds of desires that are as strong and fierce as the experiences Dollimore describes with truth and tenderness. It's a brilliant and poignant book.
It's not just another candid memoir designed to appeal to the voyeur in us all, but also a beautiful exploration of how sensuality, and especially touch, are as big a feature of our lives as sex and sexuality.
The power ofDesirehas to do with the felt accuracy of the record ... What [Dollimore] also demonstrates is how central an account of gay life is to understanding contemporary suffering. In that sense, one might claim, without diminishing its tragedies, that, as Dollimore shows, gay culture stands in for all of us.
There is no resisting the pull of Dollimore's poignant memoir. He relates his compulsive experience of gay culture with raw candour and reflects on it with subtle refinement. This is a meditation about the desire for sex and oblivion and its complex relation to loss, depression, and suicide.
A quietly startling memoir, though with no confrontational element. Jonathan Dollimore's scrupulous sifting of the past always tests ideas against experience, and finds more than once that disasters have a liberating effect. This isn't the sort of book you'd expect an academic to write, in fact it's almost the exact opposite of the sort of book you'd expect an academic to write, and much the better for it. I enjoyed it very much.
At last it is here. We have waited too long for Jonathan Dollimore's sparkling, tender, deliciously funny and astute tales of the life of desire - in his own extraordinary journeys through time. All the mystery, miseries, and delights of lust and longing are exquisitely laid bare, in a memoir so riveting you will return to it again and again.
Jonathan Dollimore's story will touch, haunt and break your heart, though not necessarily in that order. And as if that were not enough, he tells it with such discipline, delicacy and directness that even as it becomes authoritatively his own, the story of his times starts to show through it, and then the story of mortal life and desire itself.. An awe-inspiring achievement.
There are many who will be fascinated to learn about the life of a brilliant teacher, writer, radical intellectual adventurer, who for many was a role model on how to think and do our workdifferently. Jonathan Dollimore made himself the inspiration for generations of scholars in multiple fields. This memoir is an incredibly powerful, open, self-aware, and beautiful piece of writing. More than anything, it is a gift of trust to his readers.
You might expect a book titledDesire: A memoirto burst with the exploits of an insatiable lusthound, a dizzying notching-up of the bedpost that moves toward a climax of self- understanding. Well, there are plenty of revealing memories here, variously arousing, cute, funny, and bleak, the most elaborate of which occur later in the book and during a chapter devoted to time spent in Sydney in the 1980s.
A delightfully cheeky yet earnest reflection on the utopian and pedestrian possibilities of sexual life . There is much to admire here: the dewy beauty of Dollimore's limpid prose, the way his punctuation marks, like so many finely gloved fingers, point out the words and phrases to savor. There's the self-aware humor of a rebel-cum-scholar with a working-class background who clearly revels in a love of language that is never too far from the love of men . [In] Dollimore's memoir ... desire retains its glimmer of utopian potential to bring us to a place not yet known save in our dreams.
Jonathan Dollimore, a working class man who became one of our most thoughtful intellectuals, has written a memoir that meditates on sex, identity, boredom and ecstasy. It is a rich, sad, wise book.
Jonathan Dollimore is unafraid to say what he thinks and feels, and the result reads like a liberation.
[Dollimore] describes his own experiences with great vividness and often humour, and with the instincts of a true storyteller . One reads on, endlessly fascinated by the strange details of his life.
[A] moving and honest exploration of the self through the different kinds of desires that are as strong and fierce as the experiences Dollimore describes with truth and tenderness. It's a brilliant and poignant book.
It's not just another candid memoir designed to appeal to the voyeur in us all, but also a beautiful exploration of how sensuality, and especially touch, are as big a feature of our lives as sex and sexuality.
The power ofDesirehas to do with the felt accuracy of the record ... What [Dollimore] also demonstrates is how central an account of gay life is to understanding contemporary suffering. In that sense, one might claim, without diminishing its tragedies, that, as Dollimore shows, gay culture stands in for all of us.
There is no resisting the pull of Dollimore's poignant memoir. He relates his compulsive experience of gay culture with raw candour and reflects on it with subtle refinement. This is a meditation about the desire for sex and oblivion and its complex relation to loss, depression, and suicide.
A quietly startling memoir, though with no confrontational element. Jonathan Dollimore's scrupulous sifting of the past always tests ideas against experience, and finds more than once that disasters have a liberating effect. This isn't the sort of book you'd expect an academic to write, in fact it's almost the exact opposite of the sort of book you'd expect an academic to write, and much the better for it. I enjoyed it very much.
At last it is here. We have waited too long for Jonathan Dollimore's sparkling, tender, deliciously funny and astute tales of the life of desire - in his own extraordinary journeys through time. All the mystery, miseries, and delights of lust and longing are exquisitely laid bare, in a memoir so riveting you will return to it again and again.
Jonathan Dollimore's story will touch, haunt and break your heart, though not necessarily in that order. And as if that were not enough, he tells it with such discipline, delicacy and directness that even as it becomes authoritatively his own, the story of his times starts to show through it, and then the story of mortal life and desire itself.. An awe-inspiring achievement.
There are many who will be fascinated to learn about the life of a brilliant teacher, writer, radical intellectual adventurer, who for many was a role model on how to think and do our workdifferently. Jonathan Dollimore made himself the inspiration for generations of scholars in multiple fields. This memoir is an incredibly powerful, open, self-aware, and beautiful piece of writing. More than anything, it is a gift of trust to his readers.
You might expect a book titledDesire: A memoirto burst with the exploits of an insatiable lusthound, a dizzying notching-up of the bedpost that moves toward a climax of self- understanding. Well, there are plenty of revealing memories here, variously arousing, cute, funny, and bleak, the most elaborate of which occur later in the book and during a chapter devoted to time spent in Sydney in the 1980s.