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Dead Letters Sent : Queer Literary Transmission /
"Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms "thwarted transmission." Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms "thwarted transmission." Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as look into what constitutes literary knowledge and whether it can properly be said to be an object to be transmitted, preserved, or lost. Beginning with general questions of transmission--the conveying of knowledge in pedagogy, the transmission and material preservation of texts and forms of knowledge, and even the impalpable communication between text and reader--Dead Letters Sent examines two senses of "queer transmission." First, it studies the transmission of a minority sexual culture, of queer ways of life and the specialized knowledges they foster. Second, it examines the queer potential of literary and cultural transmission, the queerness that is sheltered within tradition itself. By exploring how these two senses are intertwined, it builds a persuasive argument for the relevance of queer criticism to literary study. Its detailed attention to works by Plato, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, James, and Faulkner seeks to formulate a practice of reading adequate to the queerness Ohi's book uncovers within the literary tradition. Ohi identifies a radical new future for both queer theory and close reading: the possibility that each might exceed itself in merging with the other, creating a queer theory of literary tradition immanent in an immersed practice of reading"-- |
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| Notas: | "Portions of chapter 2 were previously published as Forgetting The Tempest, in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. Madhavi Menon (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011), 351-60. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as The Queer Atavisms of Hippolytus, Pater Newsletter 58 (Spring 2008): 13-22; reprinted courtesy of Pater Newsletter. Chapter 6 was previously published as Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35 (Summer 2002): 309-30. Chapter 8 was previously published as The Beast's Storied End, Henry James Review 33, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 1-16; copyright 2012 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Portions of chapter 9 were previously published as My Spirit's Posthumeity' and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmissions in Absalom, Absalom!, in Queer Times, Queer Belongings, ed. E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2011), 205-32; copyright 2011 SUNY Press"--Title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781452944326 |