...; but to the extent that Stone maintains the primacy of sexual duality, her revision fails to address the claims of multiplicity on their own terms. In this paper, I interpret a passage from Marcel Proust's novel, Sodom and Gomorrah , in order to develop an alternative theory of sexual difference in which sexual...

... begins by detailing Bersani’s early engagement, in Balzac to Beckett: Center and Circumference in French Fiction (1970), with Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s and Maurice Blanchot’s commentaries on the two writers. Having borrowed Deleuze’s description of Proust...

...Joseph Litvak Leo Bersani was an enormously seductive critic, and he frequently wrote about seductiveness, beginning with his first book, Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and Art . This essay focuses on a passage in that book where Bersani discusses Proust’s character, the Baron de Charlus...

... of hands in Melanie Klein’s “Early Analysis,” as Bersani reads Proust with Klein, it ultimately offers its most powerful gesture in an antiredemptive comparative literary method in which association, rather than a historical or otherwise redemptive justification, undergirds literary-critical argument...

...Eleanor Kaufman While Leo Bersani makes repeated stringent critiques of relationality and other-oriented sexuality, drawing on an array of literary examples including Gide, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet, he evinces a somewhat ambiguous relation to the question of sadism and to sadism’s inherent...

... models of nondual consciousness and brings Bersani’s later writings into conversation with musical experience. In Bersani’s encounter with Proust and music, musical experience proffers a powerful ego solvent in favor of ontological interpenetration. An attention to music—here, that of Morton Feldman...

... is profoundly indebted to Phillips; and Ricco. 7 Bersani does not let go of Freud or Proust without a fight: the conclusion of “The Gay Daddy” chapter is an against-the-grain analysis of Freud’s Wolfman case study, which Bersani reads as a “genealogy of gay love” ( Homos 112 ). Bersani is likewise...

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... and Lesbian Writing in French. Ed. Brigitte Mahuzier et al. Yale French Studies 90 ( 1996 ): 25 –46. ———. Proust's Lesbianism . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999 . Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority . Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1979 . Lochrie, Karma...

... , 2005 . Derrida Jacques . “ What Is a ‘Relevant’ Translation? ” Trans. Venuti Lawrence . Critical Inquiry 27.2 ( Winter 2001 ): 174 – 200 . Genette Gérard . “ Proust et le langage indirect .” Figures II . Paris : Seuil , 1969 . 223 – 94 . Goldhammer Arthur...

.... “The Legacy of Jacques Derrida.” pmla 120.2 ( 2005 ): 481 -82. Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time . Trans. Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin. Rev. D.J. Enright. Vol. 6 . New York: Modern Library, 2003 . christie mcdonald is Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...

... York : Continuum , 2005 . ———. The Meaning of Sarkozy . Trans. Fernbach David . New York : Verso , 2008 . Benjamin Walter . “ On the Image of Proust .” Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927–1934 . Ed. Jennings Michael . London : Harvard UP , 1999 . 237 – 49...

...[ouis]-G[uillaume]. Caractères des peintres françois, actuellement vivans. Réflexions et lettres . Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1972 . Bal, Mieke. The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually . Trans. Anna-Louise Milne. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997 . Baxandall, Michael. Patterns of Intention...

... . ____. The Muses . Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Stanford: Stanford up, 1996 . Proust, Marcel. The Remembrance of Things Past . Vol. 1 . Trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff. New York: Random, 1934 . Sallis, John. Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental . Bloomington: Indiana up, 2000...

....” Cultural Critique 52 (Fall 2002 ): 167 -208. Benjamin, Walter. “Aus einer kleinen Rede über Proust.” (1932). Medienästhetische Schriften . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2002 . 24 . ____. “A Berlin Chronicle.” Reflections 3 -60. ____. Briefe . Ed. Gersholm Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno...

..., Nietzsche, the Surrealists, Proust, and Blanqui. Although Benjamin, like Heidegger, conceived of primal history as a prior, or rather a priori, condition of historical chronology, its discovery or formulation in the works of writers like Blanqui and Nietzsche, according to Benjamin, was nevertheless...

... as a result of Westphal's parallel researches into sexuality, fear of open spaces was equally associated with homosexuality. Thus Marcel Proust endows the baron de Charlus, hesitating before entry into Madame Verdurin's salon, with what he describes as the mentality of "the soul of a parent of the feminine...

... in the missionary position. In that position, as Bersani renders it, one man implicitly remains male (this is where his view differs from what comes through in Proust), while the other becomes, as we have seen, female. But what if a different position is assumed? This happens in Bersani’s “The Gay Outlaw...

... . Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception . Trans. Colin Smith. London: Routledg, 1962 . Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman . Oxford: Blackwell, 1994 . Nancy, Jean-Luc. L'intrus . Paris:Gallimard, 2000 . Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past...

... . Ed. Biagioli Mario . New York : Routledge , 1986 . 67 – 83 . Deleuze Gilles . Proust and Signs . Trans. Howard Richard . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2000 . Derrida Jacques . Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression . Trans. Prenowitz Eric . Chicago : U...