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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"homoeroticism"”.
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The Bonwit Teller Window: homoeroticism and gender play in Andy Warhol's early pop exhibition
In April of 1961 Andy Warhol exhibited five of his early Pop paintings in the Bonwit Teller window on East 57th Street in New York City (Fig. 1). Juxtaposing fashionably clothed mannequins with paintings inspired by popular culture, the display represents a transitional moment in Warhol’s career. …
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Pagbukadkad ng bulaklak = Blooming of the flower : an ethnographic study of a friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men from Metro Manila in the Philippines
… that I conclude that local Filipino forms of homoeroticism and gender variance are conceived in cultural conditions unlike those embodied in equivalent Western metropoles. The data presented in this dissertation elucidates these systemic differences by exploring pertinent social issues that …
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Interpreting Female-Female Love in the Early Poetry of Michael Field
… Furthermore, I argue that the forms of homoeroticism used to underpin the identities constructed by Bradley and Cooper reproduce and maintain some deeply conservative traditions. I conclude that feminist critics need to be sensitive to historical difference and development, understanding …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… substitution of asexual romantic friendship for homoeroticism in his 1891 revisions to The Picture of Dorian Gray. After discussing asexuality's incompatibility with models of narrative predicated on desire, I build on Judith Roof's critique of "heteronarrative" and argue that an asexually …
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Performing Binaries
… sociopolitical and cultural issues dealing with homoeroticism andgay politics. I explore gender theories in order to further understand what it means to bemasculine or feminine and how it affects my placement in society. I use art as a tool forexpressing sexual freedom while questioning …
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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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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… desire, I articulate the interplay between homoeroticism and heterosexual desire. In chapter 5, I argue that, by depicting Troilus and Pandarus as advisee and adviser, respectively, <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> suggests the highly criticized relationship between Richard II and his court …
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Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann's Early Works and Weimar Homosexual Culture (1919-1933)
… theorists and activists preoccupied with homoeroticism. These include, inter alia, the medical practitioners Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld, the emancipationists Adolf Brand and Friedrich Radszuweit as well as both renowned writers such as Klaus Mann’s father Thomas Mann and less …
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Bodies in Transgression: Exploring Same-Sex Relations in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Literature
In the Caribbean, same-sex desire is fraught with complexities, often hidden, and treated as a threat to cultural and moral values. In a region known for prolific literary production, few authors have portrayed same-sex relations, and when they do, discourses of silence, discrimination, and …
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
Queer teorie se začala pomalu etablovat v 80. letech a stala se velmi důležitým prvkem genderových studií konce 20. století, který ovlivnil nejen genderové kategorie jako takové, ale i vnímání těchto kategorií v textech. Tato práce se soustřeďuje na queering dramat Williama Shakespeara a popis …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
<p>It seems to be nearly a critically unanimous consensus that when translating Chretien de Troyes’ romance of the glorious King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, in his <em>Le Morte Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the …