Queer gothic – queer modernism

• Main Author: Piotr Sobolczyk
• Format: Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne WFPiK UAM; Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 2014-01-01
• Series: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Subjects: Gothicism; queer; queer Gothic; queer Modernism; psychoanalysis; homophobia; paranoia
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/1145

<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>