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Queer optimism : lyric personhood and other felicitous persuasions / Michael D. Snediker.
Van Pelt Library PS310.H66 S64 2009
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snediker, Michael D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
- Spicer, Jack.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Crane, Hart, 1899-1932.
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Gay men's writings, American--History and criticism.
- Gay men's writings, American.
- Homosexuality and literature--United States.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Optimism in literature.
- Crane, Hart, 1899-1932--Criticism and interpretation.
- Crane, Hart.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Spicer, Jack--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bishop, Elizabeth.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Michael D. Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement.
- Through fresh, perceptive, and sensitive readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and Elizabeth Bishop, Snediker reveals that each of these poets demonstrated an interest in the durability of positive affects. An ambitious and sophisticated study that both supplements and challenges the work of queer theory's leading figures, Queer Optimism revises our understanding of queer love and provides a groundbreaking approach to modern American poetry and poetics.
- Contents:
- Hart Crane's smile: affirming certain things
- Emily Dickinson's queer pain: "One claw opon the air"
- Jack Spicer's Billy the Kid: beyond the singular personal
- Elizabeth Bishop's crane, and the good-enough poem.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816649990
- 0816649995
- 9780816650002
- 0816650004
- OCLC:
- 229031046
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