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From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the
novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors
discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and
defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist
literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven
chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and
unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics
such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit
and new technologies such as the telephone.
This new volume of essays examines the relationship between
Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists
embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical
homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the
homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century,
from Britain to America and France, "Catholic Figures, Queer
Narratives" interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what
is modern about homosexuality. The result is a radical revision of
the sacred - in life and art, the body and devotion.
As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have charted the social history of this tumultuous time, but none have provided queer readings of the icons and iconoclasts that peopled its stage. The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of looking at the queer cultural and subcultural expression of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. A magical mystery tour, this collection reveals the queer in the Beatles and Jim Morrison, unearths the cultural power of lesbian and gay pulp fiction, and reads the queer in Myra Breckinridge, In Cold Blood, and Another Country, among others. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.
Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to
twentieth-century literary theory Provides new avenues for research
in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen's
perception of writing and narrative Moves away from perceptions of
Bowen's writing tied to existing ideological categories, such as
viewing her work through a lens of psychoanalysis, modernism, or
Irish or British history and which emphasise Bowen's innovation not
as central to our understanding of the changes happening in
twentieth-century literature and history, but as instead a point of
'difficulty' Recognises Bowen's innovation, experimentation and her
impact on her contemporaries and literary descendants From
experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel,
the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the
way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the
existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature
which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters
present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing
style and attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer
adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new
technologies such as the telephone.
In many works by modern British women writers, two women form a
strong bond only to have that relationship stymied, paralyzed or
interrupted. A female character, fearing discovery of covert
lesbian desires, lashes out at another woman, resulting in
emotional or physical harm to herself or others. Patricia Smith
defines this narrative as "lesbian panic". What happens when a
character or an author is unwilling to confront or reveal her own
lesbianism or lesbian desire? For Smith, lesbian panic is often a
fear of losing one's identity and value within the heterosexual
paradigm. Smith traces the history of "lesbian panic" through key
works: Woolfe's "The Voyage Out" and "Mrs Dalloway"; Bowen's "The
Little Girls" and "Eva Trout"; Brophy's "King of a Rainy Day";
Lessing's "The Golden Notebook"; and Spark's "The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie". Smith reveals how and why this panic is represented
and she explores how postmodern lesbian writers have attempted to
break away from this narrative.
Since the release of Wayne Koestenbaum's book, The Queen's Throat:
Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has
begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as
strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a
second look by gender theorists. Can opera - an antiquated,
Eurocentric bastion of high culture - in fact be subverting
patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?
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