Queer gothic – queer modernism
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The article discusses the motifs of queerness (homosexuality) in classical (English) Gothic novels and indicates a parallel with the modern practices of reading and writing queerness...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Polish |
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne WFPiK UAM; Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka |
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| Online Access: | http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/1145 |
| Summary: | <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The article discusses the motifs of queerness (homosexuality) in classical (English) Gothic novels and indicates a parallel with the modern practices of reading and writing queerness. Additionally, it defines the place of </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">queer Gothic </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">on the map of </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">queer Modernism </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">at the turn of the 19th century and in the 20th century. Simultaneously, he poses a question about the reason for pushing this aesthetics to the margins of that whichis “highly artistic”, or its presence only in the mainstream – basically through pastiche, grotesque, stylization or the sole use of formal elements in a polyphonic or </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Silva rerum </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">structure.</span></span></p> |
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| ISSN: | 1233-8680 2450-4947 |