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by Richard Halpern

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Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual--and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

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  • Title Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan
  • Author Richard Halpern
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 134
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Publication date 2002-05-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780812236613 / 0812236610
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.6 in (21.84 x 14.73 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Wilde, Oscar, Sodomy in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002018063
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

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  • Choice, 03/01/2003, Page 1183

About the author

Richard Halpern is the author of Shakespeare Among the Moderns. He is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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