Dead Letters Sent [electronic resource] : Queer Literary Transmission

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohi, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature--History and criticism.

Homosexuality and literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Queer theory.

Transmission of texts.

Local Subjects:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature--History and criticism.

Homosexuality and literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Queer theory.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Summary:

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,

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I; 1. Queer Transmission and the Symposium: Insult, Gay Suicide, and the Staggered Temporalities of Consciousness; 2. Forgetting The Tempest; Part II; 3. Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne's "Anactoria"; 4. Queer Atavism and Pater's Aesthetic Sensibility: "Hippolytus Veiled" and "The Child in the House"; Part III; 5. "That Strange Mimicry of Life by the Living": Queer Reading in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."; 6. Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde: De Profundis; Part IV; 7. Lessons of the Master: Henry James's Queer Pedagogy

8. The Beast's Storied EndPart V; 9. "My Spirit's Posthumeity" and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!; 10. "Vanished but Not Gone, Fixed and Held in the Annealing Dust": Initiations and Endings in Go Down, Moses; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.