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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
... the ambit of queer theory reveals a creatively remediated space where eccentrics thrive, taking the pleasures that so mystify their peers, but already positioned to claim future recognition. Recent scholarship has resituated Sitwell’s public persona in the terms of feminism and camp, 7 drawing on twenty...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... 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 deeply...
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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
... instead been tasked with what Zakiyyah Iman Jackson ( 2020 : 11) calls a queer “plasticity.” I am 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...
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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
... and poststructuralist criticism and encompasses scholarship in critical race and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, and queer studies. What is more, the issue seeks to unmoor detail from the exclusive preserve of nineteenth-century fiction and the realist novel and instead establish the centrality of detail in modern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 75–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... – 11, visiting
professor of French and comparative literature at Rutgers University. “After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory,” a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly
that he edited with Janet Halley, is forthcoming in book form, as is The Theorist’s
Mother: Origination from Marx...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 538–542.
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): 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...
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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
... 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): 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 (2019) 80 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2019
... across Deep Time . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Dimock Wai Chee . 2018 . “ Historicism, Presentism, Futurism .” PMLA 133 , no. 2 : 257 – 63 . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Elias...
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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 (2012) 73 (3): 453–474.
Published: 01 September 2012
... “an insistent previousness evading each and every natal occasion,”
especially when the names proposed for that natality are either “race”
or “blackness.”5 One critical origin for these ideas comes from queer
theory, speci cally the historiographical ethics of what Leo Bersani
calls an “anticommunal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2019
... had been hoodwinked was not pleasant. It did have its compensations, however. I first read Desire and Domestic Fiction while I was in college in the early 1990s—a moment when, despite important inroads made by feminisms of color, the sex wars, and queer theory, Shakespeare’s sister still loomed...
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