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Landscape Of Desire / by Gordon, Greg, 1963-

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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Harbin -- Let's do it: the layered life of Cole Porter / Mark Fearnow -- Lorenz Hart: this can't be love / Jeffrey Smart -- Dorothy's friend in Kansas: the gay inflections of William Inge / Albert Wertheim -- "Appealing to the passions": homoerotic desire and nineteenth-century theater criticism / Lisa Merrill -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, lulu belles, and "sexual perversion" in the Harlem renaissance / James Wilson -- The gay man as thinker: Eric Bentley's many closets / Daniel-Raymond Nadon -- The electric fairy: the woman behind the apparition of Loie Fuller / Bud Coleman -- "Not as other boys": Robert Edmond Jones and designs of desire / Jane T. …”
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Desiring Rome : Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti / by King, Richard Jackson, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.…”
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Echoes of Desire : English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses / by Dubrow, Heather, 1945-

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Desire/Love / by Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : dear reader -- Desire -- Psychoanalysis and the formalism of desire -- Psychoanalysis, sex and revolution -- Love -- Fantasy -- Desire, narrative, commodity, therapy.…”
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Desire in the Canterbury Tales / by Scala, Elizabeth 1966-, Scala, Elizabeth 1966-

Subjects: “…Desire in literature.…”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Empire of Liberty : Power, Desire, and Freedom / by Bogues, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Empire of liberty : desire, power, and the states of exception -- "Race, historical trauma, and democracy : the politics of a historical wrong" -- "Death, power, violence, and new sovereignties? …”
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Cargo Cult : Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond

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Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of Desire / by Kemp, Jonathan, 1967-

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The Practice of Love : Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire / by De Lauretis, Teresa

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South Korean Migrants in China : An Ethnography of Education, Desire, and Temporariness / by Ma, Xiao

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Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa / by Rastogi, Pallavi

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The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England / by Gilbert, Pamela K.

Table of Contents: “…The Political Novel and the Social -- The Social Novel's Leaky Bodies -- Felix Holt: The Desiring Body in the Later Political Novel.…”
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Man to Man : Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood / by Masterson, Mark (Mark Anthony)

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The Shapes of Fancy : Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature / by Varnado, Christine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading for Desire -- Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go- -- Between -- Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing -- It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt -- Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy.…”
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Walter Pater : Transparencies of Desire /

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Where the World Is Not : Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature / by Savelson, Kim

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Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature / by Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960-

Subjects: “…Desire in literature.…”
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