Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference

by Sander L. Gilman

Book Overview

The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts--in high literature, in medical literature, in art--from the last fin-de-si cle to our own. Intensely engaged in the cultural politics of everyday life and conscious of how texts reflect and shape our social practices, they deal primarily with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732612
• ISBN13: 9780804732611
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"