Foucault's Virginity - Couverture souple

Goldhill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521479347 ISBN 13 : 9780521479349

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Foucault's Virginity This is a study of how sex and sexuality are written about in the first centuries of this era. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely ignored this literature in favour of prose treatises, philosophy and Christian homilies. Simon Goldhill, writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers with whom he engages, sets out to put these texts back into the history of sexuality. The result is a dazzling celebration of sex and sexuality in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE.

Revue de presse

"An important and accessible work. Recommended for graduate and undergraduates." Religious Studies Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521479347
• ISBN 13: 9780521479349
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212