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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 11–15.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Allen Durgin For the twenty-fifth anniversary of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , this lyric essay returns to the first appearance of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s much-anthologized article “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” in the journal’s debut issue. Reading...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 483–486.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Henry Abelove In this brief memoir, the author describes his first meeting with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick when they discussed Anthony Trollope's fiction; a later meeting, when they discussed some early writings on gay history; the author's initial reaction to the publication of Between Men: English...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 29–32.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Mary Zaborskis This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 487–496.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Michael Moon Lesbian and gay studies was still in its academic infancy when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote her long-unpublished essay on James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim” (1976). Sedgwick's essay focuses on what she sees as the poem's fascinated concern with the administration...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 79–110.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Tyler Bradway This essay argues that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's late-career turn toward positive affect is motivated by a desire to articulate an alternative ethical model to the governing paradigms of queer theory. Her ethics is premised on permeable intersubjectivity, based in the nonfoundational...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 515–543.
Published: 01 October 2013
... about a boy's feelings for sport tells us considerably more than that about him. This article looks at the special role played by sport in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once called “the war on effeminate boys” (1991). Following Sedgwick, the article considers how gendered ideas about sport and athleticism...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (4): 447–472.
Published: 01 October 2017
... by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A sustained reading of Sedgwick's poem “The Use of Being Fat” becomes the way through which this article argues for the possibility of a fat present/presence and the new fat hermeneutics required to notice the same. Queer theory will be left with two important methodological...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 33–38.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Heather Love This essay reflects on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s citation of Erving Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in her essay “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” (1993). I track Sedgwick’s attempt to wrest queer studies away from...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 497–510.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Kathryn R. Kent This essay places Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's later writings on poetry alongside her early unpublished piece “The 1001 Seances” to illustrate how the latter theorizes the connection between poetic form (and its relation to the novelistic) and male-male homoerotics. I then consider...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 267–289.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (2): 247–268.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and their attendant modes of reading—for example, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” which compares rigid, knowing-in-advance interpretation with an affectively rich, temporally fluid hermeneutics. Reparative reading offers one way to understand Tribute to Freud , but H.D. can...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (4): 525–550.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of life, rather than a law that can be arbitrarily cast over the whole arc. In this, Darwin supports Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's first axiom for queer theory: “People are different from each other.” The essay concludes by connecting a Darwinian approach to sex with José Esteban Muñoz's call for a queer...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 453–475.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Bombyx mori , the source of commercial silk, through an archive of literary and critical writings by W. G. Sebald, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Jen Bervin. The author pays special attention to the trans-migration silkworms make through their own bodies, or metamorphosis, thus opening...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 451–455.
Published: 01 October 2011
...H. A. Sedgwick This note summarizes what I know of the history of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “The 1001 Seances.” I suggest that it was primarily as a poet herself that she was drawn to study and to write about the poetry of James Merrill, and I go on to suggest that her writing in this essay...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 511–516.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Neil Hertz Some notes on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's relation to James Merrill's poetry, “paying particular attention” to the tilt of her head and the beauty and power of her own poetry. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Attention Neil Hertz Writing in the 1990s, in the opening poem...
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GLQ (1993) 1 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copyright © 1993 by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA 1993 Works Cited Austin , J How to Do Things with Words . Ed. J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa. 2d ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1975 . Basch , Michael Franz . “The Concept of Affect: A Re...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 457–481.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 689–691.
Published: 01 October 2011
... an analysis of gender and sexuality in the Girl Scouts and the authorized biography of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Catherine Lord, an artist and writer, is professor of studio art at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer...
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GLQ (1996) 3 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 January 1996
...Eric O. Clarke Copyright © 1996 by Katie Gilmartin 1996 Tendencies . Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Durham: Duke UP, 1993. 281 + xvi pp. Works Cited Bisquier , Cele , “Untitled.” Unpublished manuscript. 1994 . O'Hara , Daniel , “Lentricchia's Frankness.” boundary 2 21.2...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 17–21.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of endurance for the figure of the queer. This essay is thus also engaged in the mutual explanation of not only what I learned from Sedgwick about queer theory but what queer theory can continue to learn from her. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Silvan Tomkins queer...