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Author : Judith Roof
Release Date : 06 July 1996
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
Pages : 211
ISBN 13 : 0231104375

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Book Description: On narrative and sexuality.

Come as You are

Author : Judith Roof
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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On narrative and sexuality....

Outspeak

Author : Sean P. O'Connell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Genre : Social Science
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Examines the pleasures, perils, and promises of professing one's sexual identity....

Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

Author : Judith Deborah Haber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Drama
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Haber investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and Cavendish....

Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth Century England and France

Author : Chris Roulston
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In the eighteenth century, when the definition of marriage was shifting from one based on an hierarchical model to one based on notions of love and mutuality, marital life came under a more intense cultural scrutiny. This led to paradoxical forms of representation of marriage as simultaneously ideal and unlivable. ...

Luxurious Sexualities Textual Practice Volume 11

Author : Vincent Quinn,Martha Peace
Publisher : Psychology Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking. Textual Practice contains articles relating to women, popular culture, visual media, and ethnic and sexual minorities....

Luxurious Sexualities

Author : Jean Howard,Alan Sinfield,Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking. Textual Practice contains articles relating to women, popular culture, visual media, and ethnic and sexual minorities....

Rereading Heterosexuality

Author : Rachel Carroll
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Genre : Social Science
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Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and ...

The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in U.S.-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the ...

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory

Author : Matthew Garrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to the field. It presents narrative theory as an approach to ...

Religion and Sexuality

Author : Michael A. Hayes,Wendy Porter,David Tombs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre : Religion
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This volume on a provocative set of topics presents papers from the 1997 conference on Religion and Sexuality at Roehampton Institute London. The papers do not confine themselves to contemporary discussion of the topics concerned, but range widely in their discourse and discuss this relationship in social, theological and political contexts....

Families We Choose

Author : Kath Weston
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Social Science
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This study brings together two areas of investigation: relationships of gay and lesbian individuals with their biological families, and lesbian and gay relationships in the context of research on alternative forms of family....

Queer Dickens

Author : Holly Furneaux,Professor of English Literature Holly Furneaux, Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens. It argues that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, his corpus is distinctly queer, displaying a fascination with the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the multiplicity of sexual ...

Adulthood and Other Fictions

Author : Sari Edelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Genre : Literary Criticism
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While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological ...

Evil Arabs in American Popular Film

Author : Tim Jon Semmerling
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Genre : Performing Arts
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The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since ...

Palatable Poison

Author : Laura L. Doan,Jay Prosser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The Well of Loneliness was released in Britain in 1928 and was immediately controversial. This text gathers together classic essays on the book to provide an understanding of how views have changed....