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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies / Sam See; Christopher Looby, Michael North.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- See, Sam, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature, Modern.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Charles Darwin, queer theorist
- The comedy of nature: Darwinian feminism in Virginia Woolf’s between the acts
- Art for science’s sake: Wilde in Whitman’s wilderness
- Exfoliating modernist realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster
- “Spectacles in color”: the primitive drag of Langston Hughes
- Epilogue: the myth of nature
- Fast books read slow: the shapes of speed in Manhattan transfer and the sun also rises
- Making modernism new: queer mythology in the young and evil
- American failurism: hart crane’s the bridge and Kenneth Burke’s paradox of purity
- The cruelty of breeding: queer time in the waste land
- The ancients and the queer moderns
- Contrary / sexual / feeling
- Late Sam see
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8701-7
- OCLC:
- 1128824812
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