An introduction to queer literary studies

An introduction to queer literary studies: reading queerly

by Stockton, Will

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"An Introduction to Queer Literature Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopia…

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  • Full title :An introduction to queer literary studies : reading queerly / Will Stockton.

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"An Introduction to Queer Literature Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts -ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton's Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literature Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text"--

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  • Publication Date:©2023

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  • Description:xiv, 198 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780367678104, 0367678101, 9780367677985, 0367677989
  • oclc:on1336407594
  • LC Classification:PR408.H65
  • Dewey Decimal:820.9/353

Subjects

American literature American literature -- History and crit… Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Homosexuality and literature Homosexuality in literature literary criticism Queer theory

Writers

Stockton, Will

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