"Homoeroticism in The Monk and Christabel" The Monk In Between Men Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick presents an idea of the "Male homosocial continuum", which is outlined on our poster. In analysing the relationship between Ambrosio and Rosario, it is evident that the two share a "social bond"; yet whether or not this bond is evidence of desire is uncertain. Kosofsky Sedgwick also describes points of 'radical disruption', which in The Monk appear to result from the heterosexist framework to which we are
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Tendencies: Queerness and Oppression Over the last two decades or so, the idea of queerness is one that has been utilized and considered by individuals and communities of marginalized sexualities and genders. The concept is one that has attempted to broaden and deconstruct traditional notions of gender and sexuality in order to include all of their incarnations as valid experiences and identities. Queerness endeavors to include all of those who feel they are a part of
which take as their subject the theoretical possibilities of the Gothic novel. It is indebted to Robert Miles’s work, which goes beyond simply enumerating Gothic conventions and instead formulates a theory of Gothic epistemology. It is also obliged to Eve Sedgwick’s work, which links Gothic epistemologies—what she calls paranoid reading positions—to the practice of literary criticism. “Gothic Archives” augments this work with a theory of the way that archives function in the Gothic novel, supplementing
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coextensive with the subject's movement toward what Foucault calls 'care of the self,' the often very fragile concern to provide the self with pleasure and nourishment in an environment that is perceived not particularly to offer them." -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "Demanding that life near AIDS is an inextricably other reality denies our ability to recreate a sustaining culture and social structures, even as we are daily required to devote such time to the details of the AIDS crisis." -Cindy
Homosocial Desire in the Films of Kevin Smith In present society, any man who loves another man is labeled a homosexual. If a man is not a homosexual, then he is not allowed to display any form of affection for another male. If a man does go beyond the boundaries of showing affection for another man, that man runs the risk of being labeled a homosexual. However, there are those who see the error of this and want to change this societal viewpoint. Two examples of individuals who have
to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Freud's Oedipal triangle is established at an early stage of life when a child attempts to situate itself with respect to a powerful father and a beloved, subservient mother (Sedgwick 22). As such, "homo- and heterosexual outcomes in adults [are] the result of a complicated play of desire for and identification with the parent of each gender: the child routes its desire/identification through the mother to arrive at a role like the father's, or vice versa" (Sedgwick 22)
In 2003, NBC launched on one of its cable channels, Bravo, a reality-makeover show that became a national obsession. The show was "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Two years earlier, in December of 2000, Showtime produced what was to become one of the most controversial and popular television shows in the network's history: "Queer as Folk," inspired by the BBC original of the same name. Queer was here- in a big, bold way. These two pop culture phenomenon set up a discourse for the pivotal word in
attempts to establish a subjective identity.” (237) LeBlanc’s support for this analysis comes from a variety of sources including Adrienne Rich’s article “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience, Teresa de Lauretis’s, Monique Wittig’s and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s wor...
masculinities are lesbianism (i.e., not all lesbians are masculine and not all lesbians are female) [Sedgwick (1995) in Berger, et al. (1995)]. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points this out in “Constructing Masculinity,” as she worked on four axioms of gender studies. First, that sometimes masculinity has got nothing to do with men and when something is about masculinity, it is not always with men. Sedgwick asks everyone to strongly resist the presumption that what women have to do with masculinity is mainly
There are certainly various points in history that can be construed as trailblazing for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. One event in particular, however, sparked awareness and a call to action that previously could never have been conceptualized in the United States. This unforgettable incident, the Stonewall riots of 1969, altered the public’s view of the gay community and arguably jumpstarted the next revolution in an entirely new civil rights movement. In the wee hours of
Homophobic Possibilities in The Castle of Otranto Eve Sedgwick describes the gothic novel as a “dialectic between the homosexual and homophobic” (92). Homosexuality was first recognized in the eighteenth century and resulted in far reaching social responses. With the establishment of the term “homosexuality”, social tensions appeared. These tensions found their way into novels as fears of sexuality and the struggle for sexual expression. Sedgwick terms this emerging homoeroticism as the “gothic unspeakable”
irreducible gayness. In fact, the very notion of the existence of any gay properties characterizing the Gay Identity is seriously questioned and refuted, as is the concept of a universal, timeless sexual difference (Delany 1991). According to Sedgwick, even the language used to identify the gay identity "queer" is non-referential. Queer describes the gay identity in as many uncharacteristic ways that fail to overlap certain individual homosexual experiences as it does in describing characteristic
In 1968, Esther Newton work was one of the first major anthropological that studied the homosexual community in the United States. Newton’s PhD thesis “the drag queens; a study in urban anthropology” examined the experiences, social interaction and the culture of the drag queens. In various kinds of theatrical settings there were men who dressed and performed as women, or as an expression of their sexual identity (Newton, 1968). Later in 1972, she wrote the book “Mother Camp: female impersonators
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Austin Peterson Kruse English II 1 May 2015 Societal Symbolism in “Paul’s Case” Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” tells a timeless tale of troubled youth filled with feelings of spite towards society and feelings of alienation and depression. Throughout the story, Paul’s artistic tendencies are constantly suppressed by his father and other characters, and his hate for society and dissatisfaction with his lifestyle lead him to commit the crime that makes his dreams immediately possible. Cather portrays
to form the ideas of normal and aberrant at any time, and which are then operated in the "natural" name, the "biological" and "providential” . One ofmost important authors which discussed the theme of sexual diversities and identities is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. In her text “Epistemology of the Closet” argues that the language used in a paradoxical way the concept of sexuality, while in many cases can present the nature of the sexuality of evert person. She believes that is simplistic the distinction
If Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is akin to a bel canto diva, moving her voice in ornate, wispy, origami shapes with very little forcefulness--without, in keeping with the classic test of bel canto mastery, "bending the flame" (which could account for the "thinness" my professor once complained of as we discussed Sedgwick's buoyantly clever and even hallucinatory "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl," a psychotic triumph that proves you can read your own erotomania between the lines of a text and "get
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