Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature

Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature

Author: Lloyd Davis

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780791412831

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This book examines the figure of the virgin, a symbol central to many aspects of society and sexuality in nineteenth-century England, and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination. Studying the virgin as a social, sexual, and literary phenomenon, the volume contributes to current critical accounts of the relations among the body and language, gender, and discourse. These essays explore the ways in which virginity is not a natural ideal but a complex cultural and literary sign. The authors rethink the virginal as a textual counter-example to the idealization of "natural sexuality."


Representing Kink

Representing Kink

Author: Sara K. Howe

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781498590853

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Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).


Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality

Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality

Author: Robert Samuels

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780791436103

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Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality.


Sexual

Sexual

Author: Toril Moi

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780415029742

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Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text

Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text

Author: Thomas E. Yingling

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1990-04-04

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0226956350

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"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of the gay writer."—Voice Literary Supplement "A brilliant critical model for understanding how textuality and sexuality can produce pervasive effects on each other in the writing of a figure like Crane."—Michael Moon, Duke University


Textual Bodies

Textual Bodies

Author: Lori Hope Lefkovitz

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1997-01-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1438410360

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In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition. The work serves the double purpose of providing new, original, and provocative readings of familiar texts by applying the latest innovations in theory to specific works. Topics range from Sappho's fragments through cross-dressing in medieval romance to mutilation in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. Together the essays illustrate changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.


The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-24

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1351717200

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The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media.


Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality

Author: Alan Sinfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1134143265

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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. The book has several interlocking preoccupations: theories of textuality and reading the political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today the operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence the sex/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. These preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the ‘unfinished business’ of cultural materialism - and Sinfield’s work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.