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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sapphic"”.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
… Sappho in the 1860s as resulting in a form of “Sapphic Possession” which laid hold on Swinburne, shaped his verse, produced a provocative new poetics, and which accounted for a critical reception of his work that was both hostile and enthralled. Using biographical material and Freudian …
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Exploring Sapphic Discourse in the Belle Epoque: Colette, Renee Vivien, and Liane De Pougy
… that witnessed the appearance of a new style of Sapphic novel in Paris, that of women writing about their lesbian experiences. Although men had written prolifically on the subject during the previous decades, it was not until 1900 that women began to publish works on lesbianism, attempting in …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
With queer theory and gender studies, the knowledge that Virginia Woolf was probably bisexual has come to the forefront of scholarship concerning the writer and her works. With queer theory has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… society. The first two chapters will focus on sapphic sexual initiations and the implications of female same-sex behavior and female sexual agency in conservative texts. The first chapter focuses on Henry Fielding's The Female Husband, and the perceived threat that female appropriation of …
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Impression, Storm
… overlapping plots make for fresh readings of Sapphic love, gender relations, coming-of-age in the American South, and the mass changes affecting the environment through suburbanization.</p>
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
… into an English literary perspective through Sapphic poetry, and the importance Swinburne‘s association with painters has in this process. Swinburne‘s friendship with James McNeill Whistler, for example, results in the ekphrastic poem "Hermaphroditus", which uses sculpture to comment upon the …
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A Thousand Plateaux
… materials from which to draw sonic imagery. Sapphic Fragments for two sopranos This composition was constructed from “broken” materials - an analogy for Sappho's dismembered poem. These broken materials were arranged in a pointillistic manner. I drew inspiration from M.C. Escher's works to …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
… in heterosexual love, and even the promises of Sapphic female friendship. The essay explores the early modern women’s problems with marriage and men, and the promises of conventual life, and female friendship as depicted in The History of the Nun. Other critical analyses of the text focus on …
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Women's wit on stage, 1660-1720
… to the play. My thesis creates the term ‘Sapphic wit’ to refer to the supportive network of wit between women both in and outside of the theatre, from characters onstage, to dramatists, actresses, patronesses, and theatre spectators. Evidence of these networks, along with acknowledgement …
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Sexuality, sorority and subversion: An exploration of the literary depiction of the continuum of German women's relationships
… is shown to have occurred insofar as recourse to Sapphic traditionalism and homosexual antiquity may no longer be seen to be as prevalent in some lesbian works. Whereas German lesbian authors of the 1970s and 1980s manipulated homosexual mythology and appropriated the works of classical lesbian …
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Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre
<p>This research delves into the impact queer representation in the shoujo (Japanese for young girl) genre has on audiences. More specifically, the “Magical Girl” (a subgenre of shoujo) genre’s main focus is about ordinary girls whose lives are drastically changed when they are given magical …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis …