Focusing on works by Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, Kevin Ohi explores the concept of the erotic child in Aestheticism. He compares the erotic child of these authors to the innocent child propogated by today's ideology, and argues that for these authors, the child served as an emblem for the ecstatic, erotic, and even queer possibilities of art.
Focusing on works by Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, Kevin Ohi explores the concept of the erotic child in Aestheticism. He compares the erotic chil...
Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry James--particularly the late texts--is to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts that James's queerness is to be found neither in the homoerotic thematics of the texts, however startlingly explicit, nor in the suggestions of same-sex desire in the author's biography, however undeniable, but in his style. For Ohi, there are many elements in the style that make James's writing queer. But if there is a thematic marker, Ohi...
Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry James--particularly the late texts--is to confront the queer potential of...
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...
Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently des...
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...
Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently des...
This book argues for the centrality of the erotic child in the decadent aesthetics of Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov. Ohi argues that the queerness of aestheticism has the potential to interrupt contemporary ideologies of childhood innocence and thus the ideology underpinning sexual oppression in general.
This book argues for the centrality of the erotic child in the decadent aesthetics of Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov. Ohi argues that the queerness o...
