Leo Bersani
Leo Bersani (born April 16, 1931 ) is a literary theorist and retired professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley .
Bersani works as a visiting lecturer at the Collège de France , Paris, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and as a visiting professor at the Dept. of Romance Languages, Harvard University .
In his book Homos, Bersani notes, among other things, that not only has homophobia become more violent, but that more and more gays and lesbians themselves are reluctant to be identified as homosexuals.
Publications
- The Fictions of Life and of Art. Oxford Univ. Press, 1965
- Balzac to Beckett. Oxford Univ. Press, 1970
- Baudelaire and Freud. UC Press, 1979
- The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981
- The forms of violence. Together with U. Dutoit, Schocken Books, NY 1985
- The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art. Columbia University Press 1986
- Is the rectum a grave? In: Lettre International . No. 3 , 1988, pp. 197–222 ( ikhtyar.org [PDF; 966 kB ; accessed on August 29, 2020] English: Is the Rectum a Grave? 1987.).
- The Culture of Redemption. Harvard Univ. Press 1990
- Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais. Together with U. Dutoit, Harvard Univ. Press 1993
- Homos. Harvard Univ. Press 1995
Awards
- 1992: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004: Sigmund Freud Lecture in Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ BiblioVault: Book Review
Web links
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| SURNAME | Bersani, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American university professor, literary theorist and professor of French |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1931 |