Richard Halpern

Shakespeare's Perfume

Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

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Produktbeschreibung

Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual--and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780812236613
• ISBN-10: 0812236610
• Artikelnr.: 22013224

Autorenporträt

Richard Halpern is the author of Shakespeare Among the Moderns. He is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Shakespeare's Perfume
Chapter 2. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
Chapter 3. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of
His Childhood
Chapter 4. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments