UID:
almahu_9949420000002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781003132936
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1003132936
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9781000647877
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1000647870
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9781000647846
,
1000647846
Content:
"An Introduction to Queer Literature Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts -ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton's Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literature Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stockton, Will. Introduction to queer literary studies Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367678104
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Literary criticism.
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Electronic books.
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Literary criticism.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003132936
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003132936
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