epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Butler, Erik, Gumbrecht, Hans

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Caspar David Friedrich © akg-images Meadows Near Greifswald. Caspar David Friedrich © akg-images Before the middle of the twentieth century, such images of the ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Warner, Marina;

Fig. 29 A few examples of statues called zemis, which were used to mobilize powers of prophecy, healing, and fertility, survived the iconoclasm of the missionaries (zemi, from Jamaica, izoo—1500). ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Joseph A. Boone [Boone, Joseph A.]

THE CLOSET, COLONIALISM, AND SEXUAL PREDATION IN MAUGHAM’S “CAIRO” The contradictions of colonialism that subtly infiltrate Gide’s encounters with Egyptian homoeroticism are explored in self-conscious detail in Robin Maugham’s exquisite ...

epub |eng | | Author:White, Chris

XIX Sexual inversion among Greek women offers more difficulties than we met with in the study of paiderastia. This is due, not to the absence of the phenomenon, but to ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Mark Doty

WHILE NO ONE WOULD WANT to read a lot of that, there’s something engaging about seeing Whitman tumble over himself, his thinking snarled up in qualifications, in this lurching, going-nowhere ...

epub |eng | 1994-06-30 | Author:Diana L. Burgin [Burgin, Diana L.]

Weininger’s “prolesbian” stance, unfortunately, depended on his misogynistic view that creativity was essentially a “virile” or masculine province. Indeed, the notion of Sappho’s virile genius seemed to separate her from ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Will Brooker

Bowie’s more overtly political songs have, perhaps unsurprisingly in this context, never been his most successful. ‘China Girl’, despite Bowie’s stated intention to parody racist attitudes, and its lyrical suggestions ...

epub |eng | | Author:Celia Marshik,Allison Pease

FIGURE 5 This 1933 illustration of Ernest Hemingway by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, though never published, may have been intended for the Vanity Fair series “Private Lives of the Great”; ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-17 | Author:Mari Ruti

Chapter Four BEYOND THE ANTISOCIAL–SOCIAL DIVIDE The vocabulary for articulating any reader’s reparative motive toward a text or a culture has long been so sappy, aestheticizing, defensive, anti-intellectual, or reactionary ...

epub |eng | | Author:SCOTT, LYNN O.

If Beale Street Could Talk responds to key elements of the Moynihan Report and the ensuing controversy. First, it repeats the fundamental assumption that the family is the defining social ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tavia Nyong'o

The Queer Fabulist in the Preternatural Wild Why track the spoor of race thinking through the theatrical and cinematic wilds? In part, because wildness has emerged as a motif in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Ward Farnsworth

Dickens, David Copperfield (1850) The inverted negative also can be put to good use in the imperative mood. Peace, Kent! Come not between the dragon and his wrath. King Lear, ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Lillian Faderman

LORD JUSTICE-CLERK HOPE’S NOTES ON THE TESTIMONY OF MISS JANE CUMMING, MARCH 28, 1811 When I see invention at work in one quarter, I must be prepared to suspect it ...

mobi |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Roderick A. Ferguson

An American Dilemma and the American Creed: Evoking the Nonheteronormative The imperatives of a war economy positioned against the rise of fascism in Germany were shaped by and resulted in ...