Male Jealousy: Literature and Film

by Louis Lo

Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), Lo argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy and within what Derrida characterises as logocentricism, where to love is the desire to be loved, and where love cannot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826499554
• ISBN13: 9780826499554
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"