Textuality and Sexuality
Author: Judith Still
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719036057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith Still
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719036057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lloyd Davis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780791412831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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."
Author: Sara K. Howe
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781498590853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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).
Author: Robert Samuels
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780791436103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Toril Moi
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780415029742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-02-20
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521589208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Textual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials - burial records, contemporary biographical anecdotes and theatrical records, essays, conduct books and poems; the printed apparatus of published plays, and the plays themselves - to illustrate the ways in which writing for the theatre shifted from a model of homoerotic collaboration toward one of singular authorship on a patriarchal-absolutist model. Plays and collections of plays by Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, and others, are considered. Textual Intercourse illustrate the ways in which methods attuned to sexuality and gender can illuminate more traditional questions of authorship, attribution, textual editing and intellectual property.
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1134143265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Lloyd Davis
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using Freudian and post-Freudian theories, Henry James's fiction is reinterpreted as an arena of linguistic and sexual interaction. Through readings of novels including The American and The Golden Bowl, it is argued that James's work, like Freud's itself, can be read as representative and revealing of social and psychological forces, and then reread as a product of these same forces. The emphasis is not biographical but, through employing such theorists as Lacan and Kristeva, textual, wherein textuality becomes the field of disclosure for sexuality. The traditional Jamesian narrative of the passage from innocence is reformulated as both the characterized virgins' and the texts' entrance into the complexities of the sociosexual order.