Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission - Brossura

Ohi, Kevin

 
9780816694785: Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission
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ISBN 10: 0816694788 ISBN 13: 9780816694785
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015

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Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms &;thwarted transmission.&; Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as look into what constitutes literary knowledge and whether it can properly be said to be an object to be transmitted, preserved, or lost.

Beginning with general questions of transmission&;the conveying of knowledge in pedagogy, the transmission and material preservation of texts and forms of knowledge, and even the impalpable communication between text and reader&;Dead Letters Sent examines two senses of &;queer transmission.&; First, it studies the transmission of a minority sexual culture, of queer ways of life and the specialized knowledges they foster. Second, it examines the queer potential of literary and cultural transmission, the queerness that is sheltered within tradition itself. By exploring how these two senses are intertwined, it builds a persuasive argument for the relevance of queer criticism to literary study. Its detailed attention to works by Plato, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, James, and Faulkner seeks to formulate a practice of reading adequate to the queerness Ohi&;s book uncovers within the literary tradition.

Ohi identifies a radical new future for both queer theory and close reading: the possibility that each might exceed itself in merging with the other, creating a queer theory of literary tradition immanent in an immersed practice of reading.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kevin Ohi is professor of English at Boston College and the author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov and Henry James and the Queerness of Style (Minnesota, 2011).

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816694788
ISBN 13 
9780816694785
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
326
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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