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Its iconoclastic approach gave queer studies and gender studies scholars further reason to crack open the canon, scrutinize its contents, and add unconventional texts on sound theoretical grounds. What is meant by desire, as opposed to love or sexuality. In a society in which dominant discourses of masculinity provide competing scripts of male solidarity and heterosexuality, the achievement of closeness among men is not straightforward but must be. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. English literature and male homosocial desire eve educational pdf books kosofsky sedgwick is the most sophisticated student of gender. English literature and male homosexual desire eve kosofsky sedgwick hailed by the new york times as one of the most influential texts in gender studies, mens studies and gay studies, this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from restoration comedies to tennysons princess. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Viewed through the lens of male homosociality and homosocial desire, the collapse of camelot and arthurs tragic end occurs because of the conflict between arthurs family ties and his bond to. David bourget western ontario david chalmers anu, nyu area editors. English literature and male homosocial desire paperback may 20. Male male social bonds have a powerful influence on the sexual relations of some young heterosexual men. English literature and male homosocial desire 3 editions. This model of relationship leads to paranoid cognition, as lapsing to oscillation between homophobia and homosexual desire is the shunned, or abject, side of this desire. This book is an essential antecedent to contemporary queer theory, arguing that the development of the public sphere depended upon a sublimated yet necessarily erotic male homosocial desire.
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English literature and male homosocial desire by eve kosofsky sedgwick. First published in 1985, between men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. Qualitative analysis among young men aged eighteen to twentysix in canberra, australia, documents the homosocial organization of mens heterosexual relations. Feminism and literature, history and criticism, male friendship, male authors, sex role in literature, english literature, masculinity in literature, men in literature, desire in literature, homosexuality and literature, psychological aspects. Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the united states.
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