Textuality and Sexuality
Author: Judith Still
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719036057
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Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature
Author: Lloyd Davis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780791412831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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."
Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality
Author: Robert Samuels
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780791436103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses 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.
Representing Kink
Author: Sara K. Howe
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781498590853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting 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).
Sexual/textual Politics
Author: Toril Moi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780416353709
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Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1134143265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare, 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.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Textual Bodies
Author: Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-01-09
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1438410360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
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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Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality
Author: Robert Samuels
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780791436097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses 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.
