"A series edited by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Agency and identity: the melodram in Beethoven's Fidelio -- Identity and identification: Sirk, Fassbinder, Haynes -- The art of murder : Hitchcock and Highsmith -- Wildean aesthetics: from "Paul's case's" to Lucy Gayheart.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life.