Jonathan Dollimore

Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault@@@Reading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literary Theory

Part 1 An encounter: Wilde and Gide in Algiers. Part 2 Perspectives: some parameters. Part 3 Subjectivity, transgression and deviant desire: becoming authentic Wildes transgressive aesthetic and contemporary cultural politics re-encounters. Part 4 Transgression and its containment: the politics of containment tragedy and containment. Part 5 Perversions lost histories: towards the paradoxical perverse and the perverse dynamic Augustine - perversion and privation Othello - sexual diffence and internal deviations. Part 6 Sexual perversion: Freuds theory of sexual perversion deconstructing Freud from the polymorphous perverse to the perverse dynamic perversion, power and social control thinking the perverse dynamic. Part 7 Beleaguered norms and perverse dynamics: homophobia - sexual/political deviance, theories of sexual difference. Part 8 Transgressive reinscriptions, early modern and post-modern: subjectivity and transgression early modern - cross-dressing in early modern England post-modern - on the gay sensibility or the perverts revenge on authenticity (Wilde, Genet, Orton and others). Part 9 Beyond sexual difference: desire and difference.