Search Results for queer poetics

... Wright’s classic “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.” Like the New Deal as a whole, such literary efforts were attacked by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and this Red Scare deeply influenced post-WWII readings of Bishop as apolitical, obscuring what I read as Bishop’s statist queer poetics...

...Chad Bennett This article reveals the formative interplay between the queer art of gossip and poetic practice in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover , a sprawling verse trilogy composed with the unlikely assistance of a Ouija board. The poem’s extensive gossip with the dead is often...

...Marie Franco Offering a queer reading of Gravity’s Rainbow , this project reevaluates the sexual politics and narrative poetics at work in Thomas Pynchon’s paradigmatic postmodernist novel. Moving beyond a thematic reading of sexuality, the article articulates the unacknowledged theoretical...

... Ashbery’s Queer Poetics.” 44.2 (1998): 155-75 Walker, Alice. See Campbell Walker, John. “City Jungles and Expressionist Reifications from Brecht to Hammett.” 44.1 (1998): 119-32 Warburton, Eileen. “Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down: Ourika, Cinderella, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman.”42.1...

..., and the Critique of Racial Voyeurism .” In Race and the Modern Artist , edited by Hathaway Heather Jarab Josef Melnick Jeffrey Paul , 92 – 114 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Vogel Shane . 2006 . “ Closing Time: Langston Hughes and the Queer Poetics of Harlem Nightlife...

... biographical suicide and poetic failure/ textual difficulty as paradigmatic of queer self-dissolution. Merrill Cole, Gordon Tapper, and Tim Dean all agree on the centrality of jouissance to Crane’s work, Dean, for instance, arguing that “Crane’s reader is asked not to identify with a textually...

.... Crane shuttled the geographic setting of the poem back and forth across the border between Florida and Cuba. With a focus on the material instantiation of these versions, this essay highlights the complex relationship between Crane’s queer speaker and the intellectually disabled man as it moves across...

... of the past, the recognition that the past need not determine the present. Because this realization is thematically bound up with a celebration of nonprocreative sexuality and with an ambivalent critique of futurity, it anticipates a number of contemporary emphases within queer theory. Copyright © 2018...

...). This wide-ranging collection o f essays, edited by Laity and Nancy K. Gish, resituates Eliot with the tools o f expanded feminist, queer, and gender theories. Divided into three sections, “Homoeroticisms,” “D e­ sire,” and “M odern Women,” the volume offers important new readings of Eliot’s...

... much as a figure in itself as a car- rier of Darwin’s idea of artificial selection. My larger argument is that Moore and Bishop, modern queer women poets, would have found Dar- win’s theories far more amenable to their sense of sexual and aesthetic deviation than those offered by Freud, who...

... of modernism in literature and anthropology. It witnesses the appearance of not only Hulme’s “Complete Poetical Works,” Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Marinetti’s “First Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature,” Pound’s Ripostes, Stein’s verse portraits “Henri Matisse” and “Pablo...

... of Wilde’s “The Harlot’s House,” a poem of 1885 that presents in an English version of terza rima a descent into an urban underworld that involves prominent mention of a puppet, a marionette, and automatons. Especially considering Wilde’s imitation of Dante’s poetic form, Eliot would have known the poem...

... to improvisation in the disorders of desire.” See Cavell 2005 : 155–92. See also Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s (2003) queer rereading of Austin’s performatives. 22 Thomas Yingling (1990) builds explicitly on Grossman’s work in his essay on “communicative difficulty.” Works Cited Ahmed Sara...

... a dope” “if I thought you were queer I’d kill you” you’d be right to, DAD, daddio, addled annie pad-lark (Brit. 19th C.) (441-42) Here the speaker and “friends of [his]” have been called by authority to a subjecthood to which they cannot conform. They become, by default...

... lyrical style by poets as well known as Creeley and as hard to find as Edward Field can be viewed as “attempts to wrest authentic speech away from its more mediated versions within a surveillance culture” (66). Here, O’Hara’s poetic speech “provides an alternate register—insouciant, queer...

... scious and alert, it does things like dining out, answering letters, etc .The lower personality is a very queer affair. In many ways it is a perfect fool, but without it there is no literature, because unless a man dips a bucket down into it occasionally he cannot produce first...

... was often in literal tension with its letter. ALLEN GINSBERG: LETTERS WHICH ARE INVISIBLE insberg’s letter of June 23, 1953, turns out to be pivotal both in his epistolary relationship with Neal Cassady and in the narrative of his poetic development. Context is all-important: recall...

... . 2011 . The Queer Art of Failure . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Higham John . 2002 . Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Hill Napoleon . 1987 . Think and Grow Rich . New York : Ballantine...

... to uncover the alignment of Freudian Endlust , and the “Final Solution” of the Nazi Endlösung in Barnes’s thinking, and Nightwood ’s resisting such hollow promises of redemption or Erlösung . Positioning the queer body of Doctor O’Connor alongside the Jewish body as “figures of embodied otherness...

... lesbianism. Instead, it articulates a queer antidiscourse” that she aligns with Walter Benjamin’s project of aesthetic negation. Chisholm argues that a “psychoanalytic focus would obscure the political component [of the novel] by highlighting the symptomatology that signifies...