Desire in literature
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A theater of envy
Homosexual desire in Shakespeare's England
Defiant desire
Gide's bent
The Burdens of Intimacy
Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot
Imaging desire
Slavic sins of the flesh
The fear of the other
Secret Selves
Sublime enjoyment
The infernal desires of Angela Carter
Desiring women writing
The demonic
Writing the truth
Desire
Monumental anxieties
Piers Plowman and the medieval discourse of desire
Texts of desire
Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature New Caribbean Studies
Wallace Stevens
Lines of flight
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire
Vocation and desire
Between Men
Paradox and desire in Samuel Beckett's fiction
Women novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814
Imaging Desire (Writing Art)
Narrative and desire in Russian literature, 1822-49
Recursive desire
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