Writing the Voice of Pleasure: Heterosexuality Without Women

by Anne D. Callahan

The Voice of Pleasure makes a persuasive and fascinating argument that the romantic couple of Western representation is not heterosexual. Nor is it homosexual. With insightful new readings of landmarks of Western culture from Tristan and Yseut to Seinfeld, Callahan demonstrates that the illusion of heterosexuality is created by a male artist's assumption of a feminine voice to express desire. Named the 'troubadour effect' for the first time here,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134938691X
• ISBN13: 9781349386918
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"