| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 386 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
On reading: an exaltation of dreams -- 1. The seventies: The gay philosopher -- On becoming a model for male smut -- The joys of gay life -- Fantasia in the seventies -- On James Merrill -- Sado machismo -- 2. The eighties: The political vocabulary of homosexuality -- The irresponsible art of Robert Mapplethorpe -- A sensual man with a spiritual quest: Christopher Isherwood -- The politics of gender: Michel Foucault -- Sweating mirrors: a conversation with Truman Capote -- This is not a mammal: a visit with William Burroughs -- James Schuyler -- Thoughts on White on black on white: Coleman Dowell -- The emperor of signs: Roland Barthes -- Movies and poems: Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Paradise found -- Sexual culture -- Nabokov: beyond parody -- Writer on a hot tin roof: Tennessee Williams -- The woman who loved memory: Christina Stead -- Keeping up with Jones: James Jones -- Their masks, their lives -Harry Mathews's Cigarettes -- Esthetics and loss -- Danilo Kis̆: the obligations of form -- The critic, the mirror and the vamp: A.W. Symons -- The Paris Review interview -- 3. The nineties: The angel in the house: Tennessee Williams's letters -- Out of the closet, on to the bookshelf -- The wanderer: Juan Goytisolo's border crossings -- Genet's Prisoner of love -- Straight women, gay men -- Black like whom?: Darryl Pinckney -- Southern belles lettres: Cormac McCarthy -- Two Princes: Prince and Richard Prince -- Two eulogies: David Kalstone, Robert Mapplethorpe -- Pool in rocks by the sea: Isherwood and Bachardy -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Hervé Guibert: Sade in jeans -- The personal is political: queer fiction and criticism. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Gay men -- Social life and customs.
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Gay men -- Intellectual life.
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| Added Author |
Bergman, David, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0679434755: $25.00 ($35.00 Can.) |
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