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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"homoerotic"”.
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Transatlantic intimacies: The homoerotic affect worlds of nineteenth-century print culture
<p>The thesis argues that during the late-nineteenth century, an alternative means of same-sex erotic communication was conceived of in transatlantically published American and British künstlerroman novels written by female authors. This alternative discourse was communicated affectively to …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
This paper deals with the conflict slash fiction proposes for the heteronormative endings typical of the popular romance genre, specifically within the works of Ann Herendeen.
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… including erotic desire or sexual practices. The homoerotic potential of these representations is rooted in cultural assumptions distinct from modern sexual categories. The images of havruta intimacy in the Mishnah, Talmudim, and Midrash, along with their interpretive traditions, draw on biblical …
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Maricas de etiqueta: identidad gay en el cine reciente de España y el Cono Sur
… with an earlier way of organizing masculine homoerotic interactions that I define as the “Mediterranean paradigm.” The former praises equality between MSM as the basis for community; the latter emphasizes the role that disparities of all kinds between sexual partners play in the development …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
… her to be a “lesbian”: a woman expressing homoerotic feelings for other women. The word Sapphist has become interchangeable with the word lesbian, and Virginia Woolf has been proven to be a Sapphist in that sense; however, Sapphism as a literary philosophy has remained untouched by …
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The Changing Face of Ralph Lauren's Advertising: A New Lifestyle Image and Increased Nudity
… utilizing more nudity, sexual interaction, and homoerotic imagery. By examining Ralph Lauren's shifting brand image via its advertising, this study contributes to a greater understanding of the connection between advertising and a company's brand image.
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
… close male bonds among the members, which led to homoerotic relationships. If homoerotism was permitted within the early Nazi Party, why was there a steady decline in the treatment of gay men under the Third Reich? Based on personal narratives, memoirs, and official documents, this study …
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
… with Tullus Aufidius could arguably be seen as homoerotic or even, possibly, homosexual. This paper takes a closer look at the language used in <em>Coriolanus</em> to probe the possibility of queerness between them. The paper proceeds in eight short sections which provoke various concepts of …
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La figuration du corps-homosexuel dans l'écriture francophone subsaharienne: Anti-corps, corps-performatif et confusion identitaire
… This perspective will foreground the range of homoerotic practices before, during, and after colonization while clarifying the conceptual particularities of homosexuality in this region. Our analysis of the interplay between the social body and the Anti-body will enhance our understanding of …
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Effect of Targeted LGBT Media on Body Image Perception Of Gay College Men
… prevalence of LGBT media increases as well. From homoerotic advertisements to LGBT social media, the images are more common today than during any other time in U.S. history. Currently, there is a limited understanding of how such images affect LGBT people, particularly gay men. With body image …
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… two axes of interference: homosexuality and homoerotic desire, and empowered femininity. Chapter Three argues that Mr. Standfast brings the Literary War to a close with an image of male power underpinned by the imagery and colours of chivalry. The thesis concludes with a short discussion of …
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Geografias De Resistencia: Espacio Poetico Y Homosexualidad Masculina en La Poesia Espanola Contemporanea
… the poetic self is seen constituting itself via homoerotic experience in different settings in the city. From domestic space to parks, bars, cafes, and hotel rooms, this urban dynamic of love, desire, and eroticism points to the relevance of the culture of everyday life in the creative process, …
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
… in relation to the homosocial and the homoerotic. As a genre, the buddy films focus on male relationships, thematically seeking to mediate the boundaries surrounding the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism implicit in male bonding. Theories of genre, gender and identity …
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The Bonwit Teller Window: homoeroticism and gender play in Andy Warhol's early pop exhibition
… of gender binaries, and his smuggling of homoerotic imagery into the heteronormative space of the Bonwit Teller window create a liminal zone where such opposites can be manipulated and merged. Consequently, the April 1961 display is neither gay nor straight, neither low culture nor high …
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Interpreting Female-Female Love in the Early Poetry of Michael Field
… sense of a lesbian self. I explore the homoerotic and heteroerotic discourse they produce, examining the differences and similarities between this writing and writing by three contemporary men key in the development of male homosexuality. I also question whether their representations of …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… precedent for my project, as his latently homoerotic and conceptually ambiguous paintings are viewed as a model for queer opacity. Other notable influences on my practice include the Pittura Metafisica of Greek-born Giorgio de Chirico and the Surrealist provocations of Belgian artist Rene …
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The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
… thesis further argues that the homosocial and homoerotic culture of which the Janissaries were a part, in urban settings such as coffee houses, bachelor rooms and public baths, cut across different layers of society and was one of the means by which Ottoman queer male subjects recognised …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… precedent for my project, as his latently homoerotic and conceptually ambiguous paintings are viewed as a model for queer opacity. Other notable influences on my practice include the Pittura Metafisica of Greek-born Giorgio de Chirico and the Surrealist provocations of Belgian artist Rene …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… personas demonstrates that it is commodified homoerotic emotional intimacy that ties female wenwusheng and their fans together. This homoerotic emotional intimacy is also manifest in media (re)presentations of an iconic female wenwusheng, Yam Kim-fai (1913–1989). By examining her appearance on …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… strategies and the depiction of gender, homoeroticism and the concept of the child. Furthermore, reviews published at the time of the publication of Don Juan are examined: Why did the reviewers reject the work so violently? Second, in Heine's Buch der Lieder we find ironic strategies that …
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