Come as You Are: Sexuality and Narrative

by Judith Roof

Book Overview

Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of normal heterosexual development; and homosexuality is the nineteenth century's classic case of perversion. Roof builds on Freud to illustrate that a structural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231104375
• ISBN13: 9780231104371
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher