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Books by Leo Bersani
  | | Homos(Updated) by Leo Bersani Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-40620-9, ISBN: 0-674-40620-6 " Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America. Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and lesbian studies at dozens of universities ..." |
 | | The Freudian Body(Reprint) by Leo Bersani, I. Bersani Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 1986 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-06219-0, ISBN: 0-231-06219-2 "... in the text are to James Strachey, ed., The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vols. (London: Hogarth, 1953–74). Introduction 1. It would be difficult to say, on the other hand, that the American psychoanalytic community continues to find Freud ... versus Metapsychology: Psychoanalytic Essays in Memory of George S. Klein, in Psychological Issues, vol. 9, no." |
 | | Receptive Bodies(1st Edition) by Leo Bersani Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57976-4, ISBN: 0-226-57976-X "Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular ..." |
 | | Marcel Proust(2nd Edition) The Fictions of Life and of Art by Leo Bersani Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-993151-4, ISBN: 0-19-993151-8 "Leo Bersani is an eminent literary critic whose influential work spans half a century. His vast, in many ways unclassifiable, oeuvre has traversed and blurred the boundaries of the disciplines of modern French literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory, philosophical aesthetics, and masculinity studies and sexuality studies. Oxford University Press published Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the ..." |
 | | Intimacies(Reprint) by Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04345-6, ISBN: 0-226-04345-2 "Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination—though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis ..." |
 | | Is the Rectum a Grave? and Essays by Leo Bersani Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04354-8, ISBN: 0-226-04354-1 "Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" - this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over th ..." |
 | | Forms of Being Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2004 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-016-4, ISBN: 1-84457-016-9 "In each of the films discussed in this study - "Le Mepris", "All About My Mother", "The Thin Red Line" - something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and more powerful means than narrative or argument." |
 | | Caravaggio's Secrets (October Books) by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit, Isbn 10: 0262024497 Hardcover, 130 Pages, Published 1998 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02449-5, ISBN: 0-262-02449-7 "Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In Caravaggio's Secrets, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that so ..." |
 | | Homos(1st Edition) by Leo Bersani Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 1995 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-40619-3, ISBN: 0-674-40619-2 " Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America. Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and lesbian studies at dozens of univer ..." |
 | | Madame Bovary(4th Edition) by Gustave Flaubert, Bair Lowell, Leo Bersani Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 1982 by Bantam Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-553-21101-6, ISBN: 0-553-21101-3 "... Raudelairean visions: "Anywhere out of this world." As things stand, her retribution is a triumph for the community, a vindication of the bourgeoisie. ..." |
 | | Henry James(1st Edition) Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove by Jr. James Henry, Leo Bersani Hardcover, 713 Pages, Published 2006 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-88-4, ISBN: 1-931082-88-X "This Library of America volume brings together The Sacred Fount (1901), one of Henry James’s most unusual experiments, and The Wings of the Dove (1902), one of his most beloved masterpieces and the novel that inaugurated the majestic and intricate “late phase” of his literary career.Writing to his friend William Dean Howells, James characterized The Sacred Fount, the only one of his novels to be told in the first person, as “a fine flig ..." |
 | | Caravaggio by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Paperback, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Mrz 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-83902-256-2, ISBN: 1-83902-256-6 |
 | | Thoughts and Things by Leo Bersani Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20605-9, ISBN: 0-226-20605-X "Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from movies by Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Godard to fiction by Proust and Pierre Bergounioux, Bersani considers various kinds of connectedness. Thoug ..." |
 | | Is the Rectum a Grave?(Updated) And Other Essays by Leo Bersani Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04352-4, ISBN: 0-226-04352-5 "Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics.Over the cou ..." |
 | | The Death of Stephane Mallarme (Cambridge Studies in French) by Leo Bersani Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11567-4, ISBN: 0-521-11567-1 "In this highly original and provocative study, Bersani takes us away from the interpretative questions which the competing critics of Mallarmé familiarly raise, and explores a fundamental paradox within his work as a whole. On the one hand Mallarmé can be taken as a prime example of textual imperialism in modern literature: his hermetic poems seem to demand ever more interpretative ingenuity from his readers and to provide a foretaste o ..." |
 | | Forms of Being(1st Edition) Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Hardcover, 185 Pages, Published 2008 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-015-7, ISBN: 1-84457-015-0 "In each of the films discussed in this book--Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999), The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998) --something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and more powerful means than narrative or argument. It is a matter in every case of re-imagining the relationship between subjectivity and the world. At the end of Le Mépris a con ..." |
 | | Intimacies(1st Edition) by Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04351-7, ISBN: 0-226-04351-7 "Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination—though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis ..." |
 | | Caravaggio(1st Edition) (Bfi Modern Classics) by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-0-85170-724-2, ISBN: 0-85170-724-6 "'Caravaggio' (1986) is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. Nevertheless, the film reflects Jarman's major concerns: violence; history; homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. Unlike Jarman's other work it avoids sentimentalizing gay relationships." |
 | | The Culture of Redemption(Reprint) (Hardcover) by Leo Bersani Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 1990 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-73426-5, ISBN: 0-674-73426-2 |
 | | Baudelaire and Freud (Quantum Book) by Leo Bersani Hardcover, 154 Pages, Published 1978 by Univ Of California Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-520-03402-0, ISBN: 0-520-03402-3 |
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