Queer Impressions

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135490126

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Queer Impressions by Elaine Pigeon Pdf

Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very centre of his New England Transcendentalism, James draws on the Gothic effects of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, thereby producing an intensification of Isabel Archer's psychological state and precipitating her awakening to a fuller, heightened consciousness. Thus Romanticism takes an aesthetic turn, becoming distinctly Paterian and unleashing queer possibilities that are further developed in James's subsequent fiction. This book follows the Paterian thread, leading to The Author of Beltraffio and Théophile Gauthier, and thereby establishing an important connection with French culture. Drawing on James's famous analogy between the art of fiction and the art of the painter, the book explores a possible link to the Impressionist painters associated with the literary circle Émile Zola dominated. It then turns to A New England Winter, a tale about an American Impressionist painter, and finds traces leading back to James's initiation prèmiere. The book closes with an exploration of the possible sources of Kate Croy's unspeakable father in The Wings of the Dove and proposes a possible intertext, one that provides direct insight into the Victorian closet.

Author : Walter Gay,Isabel L. Taube
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Domestic space in art
ISBN : 0615573746

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Impressions of Interiors by Walter Gay,Isabel L. Taube Pdf

Published by London's D. Giles Limited, the lavishly illustrated volume examines Walter Gay's life and work and features all 69 paintings in the exhibition. Main author Isabel L. Taube writes on Walter Gay's Poetic Rooms, and also wrote the catalogue portion of the exhibition, which organizes Walter Gay's work by residence;including sections on each of the Gay's own residences, as well as other homes Walter Gay was commissioned to paint in Europe and America. Other contributors are Priscilla Vail Caldwell, who writes on the enduring appeal of Walter Gay; arts expert Nina Gray, who focuses on interior decoration and the Rococo revival in America: and Frick Director of Curatorial Affairs Sarah Hall, who wrote essays about the three paintings in our collection.

Author : Elaine Pigeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415975336

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Queer Impressions by Elaine Pigeon Pdf

British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence.

Author : Donald Morton
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004068715

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The Material Queer by Donald Morton Pdf

"The Material Queer" is an innovative anthology that offers a "materialist" understanding of marginal sexualities by accounting for the full range of classic and contemporary views. It breaks with the classic tradition in lesbian and gay studies and also with ludic (post)modern theory by insisting on the embeddedness of gender and sexuality in the social division of labor.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748691159

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Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed Pdf

A bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how emotions work and their effects on our daily lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100173640

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The Juvenile Instructor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melanie Kohnen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136519895

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Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race in American Film and Television by Melanie Kohnen Pdf

This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11. Kohnen intervenes in previous academic and popular accounts that paint the increase in queer visibility over the past four decades as a largely progressive development. She examines how and why a limited and limiting concept of queer visibility structured around white gay and lesbian characters in committed relationships has become the embodiment of progressive LGBT media representations. She also investigates queer visibility across film, TV, and print media, and highlights previously unexplored connections, such as the lingering traces of classical Hollywood cinema's queer tropes in the X-Men franchise. Across all chapters, narratives and arguments emerge that demonstrate how queer visibility shapes and reflects not only media representations, but the real and imagined geographies, histories, and people of the American nation.

Author : Jay Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135513368

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No Place for Home by Jay Ellis Pdf

This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations. The relationship of ambivalent nostalgia for domesticity to McCarthy's descriptions of space remains relatively unexamined at book length, and through less theoretical application than close reading. By including McCarthy's latest book, this study offer the only complete study of all nine novels. Within McCarthy studies, this book extends and complicates a growing interest in space and domesticity in his work. The author combines a high regard for McCarthy's stylistic prowess with a provocative reading of how his own psychological habits around gender issues and family relations power books that only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, expressions of misogynistic fear, or antinomian rejections of civilized life.

Author : Gordon A. Tapper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135888749

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The Machine that Sings by Gordon A. Tapper Pdf

Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's preoccupation with the body reaches its apoge. Tapper treats Voyages, The Wine Merchant, and Possessions as a triptych of erotic poems in which Crane plays out alternative resolutions to the dialectic between purity and defilement, a conceptual dynamic which Tapper argues is central to both Crane's poetics of difficulty and his representations of homosexual desire. Tapper concentrates on the three sections of The Bridge, most concerned with recuperating animality: 'National Winter Garden,' 'The Dance,' and 'Cape Hatteras.'

Author : Anthony Christian Ocampo
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479898138

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Brown and Gay in LA by Anthony Christian Ocampo Pdf

The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. For these men, the path to sexual freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents—and finding community in each other. Ocampo also details his own story of reconciling his queer Filipino American identity and those of men like him. He shows what it was like for these young men to grow up gay in an immigrant family, to be the one gay person in their school and ethnic community, and to be a person of color in predominantly White gay spaces. Brown and Gay in LA is an homage to second-generation gay men and their radical redefinition of what it means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of color, and, ultimately, what it means to be an American.

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231543057

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Lasting Impressions by Jesse Matz Pdf

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely "impressionistic" about culture today. Jesse Matz considers these two legacies—the positive and the negative—to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.

Author : L. C. Rosen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316537742

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Camp by L. C. Rosen Pdf

Set in a summer camp, this sweet and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the nature of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance. Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim—who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists. This year, however, it's going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del'—buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him. But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself: How much is he willing to change for love? And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn't know who he truly is?

Author : Kenneth Cervelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135861087

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Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology by Kenneth Cervelli Pdf

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere), these journals have proven especially useful for readers wanting a more intimate glimpse of arguably the most important poet of the Romantic period. With the rise of women’s studies in the 1980s, however, came a shift in critical perspective. Scholars such as Margaret Homans and Susan Levin revaluated Dorothy’s work on its own terms, as well as in relation to other female writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Part of a larger shift in the academy, feminist-oriented analyses of Dorothy’s writings take their place alongside other critical approaches emerging in the 1980s and into the next decade. One such approach, ecocriticism, closely parallels Dorothy’s changing critical fortunes in the mid-to-late 1980s. Curiously, however, the major ecocritical investigations of the Romantic period all but ignore Dorothy’s work while at the same time emphasizing the relationship between ecocriticism and feminism. The present study situates Dorothy in an ongoing ecocritical dialogue through an analysis of her prose and poetry in relation to the environments that inspired it.

Author : Frank Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555080947

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The American metropolis from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York city life by Frank Moss Pdf

Author : Thomas McLean Newson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCAL:$B282503

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Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians by Thomas McLean Newson Pdf