Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film /
The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston℗s introduction to the volume ℗ a concise and in...
| Автор-организации: | French Literature Conference |
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| Други автори: | Day, James T., 1948- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Серия: |
French literature series ;
v. 34. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=211926 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film. |
| Резюме: |
The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston℗s introduction to the volume ℗ a concise and informative history of queer theory ℗ the fifteen articles reveal, not surprisingly, significant diversity. One deals with queerness in the context of medieval writing where allegorical and euphemistic expression were understood to be irreconcilable. Another treats translations in Early Modern France of an Ovidian fable that had an inconvenient lesbian dimension. Rousseau℗s fixation on his bottom (e.g., for spankings) points to a queer streak, while Gautier℗s Mademoiselle de Maupin enhances the theme of sexual misidentity with ornamental figures. The queerness of Sand℗s La Mare au diable emerges in the course of a contrasexual reading. A musicologist investigates the possibility of a lesbian esthetics of music in a work by Erik Satie, while a literary scholar finds evidence of Proust℗s ℗outing℗ in Jean Santeuil. Other articles address the sense of gender transformation wrought by sodomy, a revised view on the writing subject in Jean Genet℗s fiction, the queerness of heterosexuality in the works of Michel Houellebecq, and recurring motifs in recent fiction produced by ℗gay Paris.℗ Two of the articles treat activism and esthetics in film. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Contains papers that originated as contributions to the annual French Literature Conference held in 2006 at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina. |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xix, 209 pages). |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781435612518 1435612515 9042022655 9789042022652 9789401204903 940120490X |