Jonathan Goldberg

Melodrama

An Aesthetics of Impossibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University and the author of several books, most recently¿ Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic. He is also the author of Willa Cather and Others and editor of Queering the Renaissance, both also published by Duke University Press. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361756
• ISBN-10: 0822361752
• Artikelnr.: 43893192

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University and the author of several books, most recently  Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic. He is also the author of Willa Cather and Others and editor of Queering the Renaissance, both also published by Duke University Press.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Part I. The Impossible Situation
1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio  3
2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes  23
Part II. Melos + Drama
3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith  83
4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart  133
Coda  155
Notes  169
Bibliography  187
Index  197