Scenes of Intimacy

<p><i>Scenes of Intimacy</i> analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature the effect this has upon readers and the ways these representations resonate with complement and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic Derridean and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle the volume contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy on to representations of love of sex and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy and draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from queer theory affect studies psychoanalysis poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation. Across the genres of poetry autobiography journals love letters short stories and novels <i>Scenes of Intimacy</i> shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities their failures and their futures.</p>