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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"queer and feminist theory"”.
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The Embodiment of Theory in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
… <em></em>(2015), works to bring critical theory (primarily queer and feminist theory) out of the academy and into the realm of the personal, rendering theory as tangible and embodied in a real-world setting. Through this unique exchange, Nelson radically reinstates norms relating to …
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Your place or mine? The love hotel as a post-domestic hyperreality
… which explores themes of pleasure, intimacy and domesticity; as well as its antithesis, postdomesticity; within the city of Cape Town. The foundation upon which my research is based is an inquiry into queer and feminist theory, but the end-goal of the project is to create a proposal which can …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
<p>Bringing together queer and feminist theory, this dissertation examines Shakespeare’s representations of pregnancy divorced from their promised duration and promised end, revealing that the pregnant body is not wholly symbolic of futurity, chastity, or even heterosexual desire. In queer readings …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… thesis takes the recent increase in on-screen and behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood film and televison as a launching point for a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… of the adolescent is represented, constructed, and disciplined as a potential citizen in young adult (YA) literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Engaging the field of children's and YA literature through queer and feminist theory, I analyze how the …