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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Tyler Bradway Abstract This essay reconsiders the skepticism toward queer characters and the default privilege given to antirepresentational aesthetics in queer theory. To grasp the queer affordances of character, the essay identifies character-detail as an iconic and embodied dimension...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 465–490.
Published: 01 December 2015
... as a declaration of radical antihumanism with key implications for both Marxist and queer theory. In so doing, it proposes that Isherwood’s literary praxis of self-instrumentalization advances a definition of the human that refuses both property ownership and heterosexual monogamy. In light of this new reading...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Style .” Representations , no. 150 : 91 – 119 . Doody Margaret Anne . 2003 . “ Swift and Women .” In The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift , edited by Fox Christopher , 87 – 111 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 September 2019
... O. Block works with queer theory to interpret a series of canonical texts—predominantly from the classical German tradition of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—and shed light on the politics of gender and sexuality in the twenty-first century. Block’s tightly argued and at times...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Absence: The Extremity of Claudio’s Prosecution and Barnardine’s Pardon in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.” Law and Literature 21 , no. 2 : 169 – 84 . Marcus Sharon . 2005 . “Queer Theory for Everyone: A Review Essay.” Signs 31 , no. 1 : 191 – 218 . May Elaine Tyler...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... thinking, too, of Grace Lavery ( 2020 : 722), who, pushing back against the fetish of free play in queer theory, seeks instead to theorize “the ontologies of trans life absent the categories of parody and drag and to orient us away from the descriptions of trans as instability, fuckery, or interstitiality...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 361–364.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the past two decades. Her argument touches on and enlarges the concerns of disability studies, posthumanism, animal studies, environmental humanities, queer theory, and animacies. In keeping with its investigation of and advocacy for care as a practice that extends into academic work, Schaffer notably...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 399–418.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Kurnick David . 2020 . “ A Few Lies: Queer Theory and Our Method Melodramas .” ELH 87 , no. 2 : 547 – 72 . Latour Bruno . 2004a . Politics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and willing to recognize them. That mix of secrecy and openness was especially attractive to gay poets, since it enabled them to express their desires obliquely by writing through authors who hinted at similar experiences. Queer allusion thus offers an alternative to long-standing theories of influence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
... between part and whole, individual and type, particular and universal.” Tyler Bradway, in his contribution, also emphasizes how the typifying function of the detail implies higher stakes in works that foreground marginalized subjects. Bradway pushes back against a tradition of queer theory that looks...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 75–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... forward indistinguishable from the way back. University of Washington 2010 Andrew Parker is professor of English at Amherst College and, in 2009 – 11, visiting professor of French and comparative literature at Rutgers University. “After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory,” a special issue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 538–542.
Published: 01 December 2009
...,
gay a nd pride have changed the cultural, social, religious, and legal status of
millions. In their wake has grown a rich and complex body of critical theory,
textual analysis, and archival excavation that has produced the intersecting
fields of LGBT studies, queer theory, and the history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 527–531.
Published: 01 December 2009
...,
gay a nd pride have changed the cultural, social, religious, and legal status of
millions. In their wake has grown a rich and complex body of critical theory,
textual analysis, and archival excavation that has produced the intersecting
fields of LGBT studies, queer theory, and the history...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 535–538.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the cultural, social, religious, and legal status of
millions. In their wake has grown a rich and complex body of critical theory,
textual analysis, and archival excavation that has produced the intersecting
fields of LGBT studies, queer theory, and the history of sexuality. In myriad
settings both...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2009
...,
gay a nd pride have changed the cultural, social, religious, and legal status of
millions. In their wake has grown a rich and complex body of critical theory,
textual analysis, and archival excavation that has produced the intersecting
fields of LGBT studies, queer theory, and the history...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Elias Amy J. 2016 . “ Past/Future .” In Time: A Vocabulary of the Present , edited by Burges Joel and Elias Amy J. , 35 – 50 . New York : New York University Press . Felski Rita . 2015...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 532–534.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the cultural, social, religious, and legal status of
millions. In their wake has grown a rich and complex body of critical theory,
textual analysis, and archival excavation that has produced the intersecting
fields of LGBT studies, queer theory, and the history of sexuality. In myriad
settings both...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and sexuality studies, feminist criticism, and queer theory. But until now few critics have measured the achievements of decadent writers—formal, philosophical, historiographical—in terms of the movement’s modernist afterlife. As the received critical wisdom ran, decadence was (as John Updike somewhere put...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 110–114.
Published: 01 March 2024
... techniques: to develop his arguments, he fuses disparate elements (Hamlet and internet trolling, for example) and citations (a line of analysis might lead through stoicism and Renaissance scholarship to contemporary suicidology, Black studies, queer theory, and Cyndi Lauper). The dynamism of the book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 453–474.
Published: 01 September 2012
... origin for these ideas comes from queer
theory, speci cally the historiographical ethics of what Leo Bersani
calls an “anticommunal model of connectedness,” or in Daniel Tiffa-
ny’s phrase “a sociological sublime magnetized by abjection.”6 These
strains of thought not only acknowledge the radical...
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