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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ohi, Kevin, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Homosexuality and literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Transmission of texts.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Queer theory.
Homosexualité et littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Transmission de textes.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Théorie queer.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Lesbian Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature
English literature
Homosexuality and literature
Literature > Theory, etc.
Queer theory
Transmission of texts
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Queer Transmission and The Symposium: Insult, Gay Suicide, and the Staggered Temporalities of Consciousness
  • 2. Forgetting The Tempest
  • 3. Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne's "Anactoria"
  • 4. Queer Atavism and Pater's Aesthetic Sensibility: "Hippolytus Veiled" and "The Child in the House"
  • 5. "That Strange Mimicry of Life by the Living": Queer Reading in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
  • 6. Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde: De Profundis
  • 7. Lessons of the Master: Henry James's Queer Pedagogy
  • 8. The Beast's Storied End
  • 9. "My Spirit's Posthumeity" and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!
  • 10. "Vanished but not gone, fixed and held in the annealing dust": Initiations and Endings in Go Down, Moses.

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