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Male Jealousy

By Louis Lo

Male Jealousy

By Louis Lo

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Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), Lo argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy and within what Derrida characterises as logocentricism, where to love is the desire to be loved, and where love cannot be guaranteed in any form of sexual relationship. Contrasting the difference between jealousy and its closely linked concept, envy, this book explores the economy of possession and its relationship to the body, and argues, controversially, that jealousy is an even more modern concept than envy. Informed by critical theory, engaging in particular with Derrida, Deleuze, Freud, Lacan and Kristeva, the study offers close readings of key works by Cervantes, Shakespeare, Proust, Buñuel, Vidor and Almodóvar, in which a spectrum of different forms of jealousy are portrayed.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
198
Release Date:
2008-05-08
Publication Date:
2008-03-08
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0826499554
ISBN13:
9780826499554
Weight:
467 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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