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After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated
queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that
continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice.
It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and
argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in
establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary
queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many
trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn,
the question of the subject, and the significance of social
categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging
between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection
initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer
studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of
literary interpretation and cultural practices.
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein
scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as
well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon.
Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our
understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet
Stein's writing itself too often remains secondary. The central
premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual
scholarship remains to be done on Stein's work, whether the
well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in
Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using
cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we
might read, understand, and teach Stein's writing. Following
Stein's own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from
her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the
lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays,
lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein's primary works as its
core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the
challenges and pleasures of working with Stein's texts.
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein
scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as
well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon.
Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our
understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet
Stein s writing itself too often remains secondary. The central
premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual
scholarship remains to be done on Stein s work, whether the
well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in
Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using
cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we
might read, understand, and teach Stein s writing. Following Stein
s own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her
personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens
back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays,
lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein s primary works as its
core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the
challenges and pleasures of working with Stein s texts."
After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated
queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that
continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice.
It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and
argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in
establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary
queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many
trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn,
the question of the subject, and the significance of social
categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging
between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection
initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer
studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of
literary interpretation and cultural practices.
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a
global history of the field. It is an unprecedented summation of
critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also
addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate
fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies.
Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism,
diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this
volume is grounded in current scholarship. It presents new critical
approaches to gay and lesbian literature that will serve the needs
of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in
the field, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature will
not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a
definitive reference for gay and lesbian literature for years to
come.
What McCallum (English, Indiana U.) means by doing things is
probably quite different than what most fetishists would have in
mind. In fetishism she finds a form of subject-object relationship
that can reveal much about basic strategies of defining, desiring,
and knowing subjects and objects in west
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