{"product_id":"desire-love-stories-in-western-culture-9780631168140","title":"Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture","description":"In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Beginning with the celebration of true love in contemporary popular romance, and the reluctant scepticism of postmodern novels, she goes on to explore past representation of passion by Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennyson and Bram Stoker. Belsey also discusses the role of desire in the utopian writings of Plato, More and William Morris, as well as its treatment by a range of speculative feminists, from Charlotte perkins Gilman to Marge Piercy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Belsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780631168140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Belsey\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCritical Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eThe Subject of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eJohn Milton\u003c\/i\u003e (1988).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40406452994163,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":82.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9afd1daa-1be7-47aa-86d9-d7aacf1f0397.jpg?v=1662040707","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/desire-love-stories-in-western-culture-9780631168140","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}