Leo Bersani
Leo Bersani(April 16, 1931 – February 20, 2022) was an American academic, known for his contributions to French literary criticism andqueer theory.He was known for his 1987 essay "Is the Rectum a Grave?"and his 1995 bookHomos.[1]
Bersani was born inthe Bronx.He studied atHarvard University,graduating in 1952 with a bachelor’s in Romance languages, and with a Ph.D. incomparative literaturein 1958. He taught atWellesley CollegeandRutgers Universitybefore joiningUniversity of California, Berkeleyin 1972, where he'd remain for the rest of his career, assuming emeritus status in 1996.[1]He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1992.[2]He married his partner, Sam Geraci, in 2014, and died at a care facility under the care of Hospice inPeoria, Arizona,on February 20, 2022, at 1:46AM at the age of 90 with Geraci at his side.[1]
Bibliography[edit]
- Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art(Oxford Univ. Press, 1965)[1]
- Balzac to Beckett(Oxford Univ. Press, 1970)
- A Future for Astyanax(Little, Brown, 1976)
- Baudelaire and Freud(Univ. California Press, 1977)
- The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982)
- The Forms of Violence(with Ulysses Dutoit, Schocken Books, N.Y., 1985)
- The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art(Columbia University Press, 1986)
- The Culture of Redemption(Harvard Univ. Press, 1990)
- Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais(with Ulysse Dutoit, Harvard Univ. Press, 1993);
- Homos(Harvard Univ. Press, 1995)[1]
- Caravaggio's Secrets(with Ulysse Dutoit, MIT Press, 1998)
- Caravaggio(with Ulysse Dutoit, British Film Institute, 1999)
- Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt(with Ulysse Dutoit, Legenda/European Humanities Research Centre, 2003)
- Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity(with Ulysse Dutoit, British Film Institute, 2004)
- Intimacies(with Adam Phillips, Univ. Chicago Press, 2008)
- Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays(Univ. Chicago Press, 2010) — contains "Is the Rectum a Grave?"(originally published, 1987)[1]
- Thoughts and Things(Univ. Chicago Press, 2015)
- Receptive Bodies(Univ. Chicago Press, 2018)[1]
References[edit]
- ^abcdefgRisen, Clay (February 27, 2022)."Leo Bersani, Critic of French Literature and Gay Life, Dies at 90".The New York Times.Archived fromthe originalon 28 February 2022.RetrievedFebruary 27,2022.
- ^"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B"(PDF).American Academy of Arts and Sciences.RetrievedJune 24,2011.
External links[edit]
- Leo Bersani – French Department – University of California, BerkeleyArchived2014-01-16 at theWayback Machine
- New York Times review of The Culture of Redemption
- "A Conversation with Leo Bersani" conducted along with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman,Octobervol. 82 (Autumn 1997)
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