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Caravaggio by Leo Bersani
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.16Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very... -
Homos by Leo Bersani 9780674406209
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $29.03Acclaimed 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... -
Intimacies Leo Bersani 9780226043456
Booksplease Price: $27.15Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here engage in a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as... -
Baudelaire and Freud by Leo Bersani 9780520368767
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45This title delves into the interplay between Charles Baudelaire's poetic vision and Freudian psychoanalytic theory, offering a nuanced exploration of fragmented identity and the dynamic tension... -
Thoughts and Things Leo Bersani 9780226206059
Booksplease Price: $34.42Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields-including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer... -
Baudelaire and Freud by Leo Bersani 9780520328952
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $40.36This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays by Leo Bersani
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $100.93Over 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... -
The Death of Stephane Mallarme by Leo Bersani 9780521115674
Booksplease Price: $39.41In this highly original and provocative study, Bersani takes us away from the interpretative questions which the competing critics of Mallarme familiarly raise, and explores a fundamental paradox... -
Receptive Bodies by Professor Emeritus of French Leo Bersani
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72Leo 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... -
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art by Leo Bersani 9780231062190
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61Analyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories.Book InformationISBN... -
Leo Bersani: Living Theory by Mikko Tuhkanen 9781623564117
Booksplease Price: $124.29For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film... -
The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani by Mikko Tuhkanen 9781438469676
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $89.80The first book-length study of Bersani's work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.Since his first publications in the... -
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays by Leo Bersani 9780226043548
Booksplease Price: $41.67Over 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... -
Receptive Bodies by Professor Emeritus of French Leo Bersani 9780226579764
Booksplease Price: $28.37Leo 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... -
Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity by Leo Bersani 9781844570164
Booksplease Price: $47.01In 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... -
Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art by Leo Bersani 9780199931514
Booksplease Price: $63.08Leo 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... -
Intimacies (16pt Large Print Edition) by Leo Bersani 9780369321596
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369321596Author Leo BersaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais by Leo Bersani 9780674048768
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $49.79"How almost true they sometimes almost ring!" Samuel Beckett's character rues his words. "How wanting in inanity!" A person could almost understand them! Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing... -
Gay Betrayals. Hanna Quinlan & Rosie Hastings / Leo Bersani: Two Works Series Vol. 5. by Elisa Adami
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753302393Author Leo BersaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint -
Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment by Michael D Snediker
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.99A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic painAt the intersection of queer theory and disability studies,... -
Modern European Cinema and Love Richard Rushton 9781526149435
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $83.37Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
Modern European Cinema and Love by Richard Rushton 9781526191229
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
Reading Melanie Klein by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Kleinian psychoanalysis has recently experienced a renaissance in academic and clinical circles. Reading Melanie Klein responds to the upsurge of interest in her work by bringing together the most... -
Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics by Les Brookes
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The... -
Little Deaths: Sex and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Pandemics Ricky Varghese 9781779400925
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.55Revealing how sex and contagion have become uneasy yet inseparable bedfellows. In an era defined by pandemics, our perceptions of sexuality are deeply intertwined with fears and fantasies of... -
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.92Most critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud's work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of rejecting crucial metapyschological concepts such as the death... -
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction by Frank Kermode
Booksplease Price: $25.55Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to... -
Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory by Lorenzo Bernini 9783319433608
Booksplease Price: $120.56This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465322
Booksplease Price: $60.48Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture by Peter Brooks 9780300087451
Booksplease Price: $45.43One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding... -
Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory by Lorenzo Bernini 9783319828022
Booksplease Price: $118.85This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465292
Booksplease Price: $59.70Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature Christopher Vaccaro 9781501517945
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $69.08Sadomasochistic "Beowulf" applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields. Its arguments are formulated through the works of Sigmund Freud,... -
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis by Tim Dean 9780226139364
Booksplease Price: $150.08Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,... -
Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader by Edward Scheer
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01This resource collects for the first time some of the best criticism on Artaud's life and work from writers such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and... -
The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire by Teresa de Lauretis
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47" . . . a work that builds a substantial bridge between Freudian psychoanalysis and radical feminist thought, particularly on the subject of lesbianism. . . . Presenting a complex argument about an... -
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Tim Dean 9780226139371
Booksplease Price: $51.73Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,... -
Modernity At Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad In Crisis by Cesare Casarino 9780816639274
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.91Analyzes nineteenth-century seafaring narratives and their importance to ideas of modernityAt once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of... -
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott 9781479840137
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $78.68Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes... -
The Logic of the Lure by John Paul Ricco
Booksplease Price: $36.83The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco...