Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> LGBTQ+

"Sexology and Translation" is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars address the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of contexts during the period from the 1880s to the 1930s.

From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld s affective sexology, this book offers compelling new insights into how sexual ideas were formed in different contexts via a complex process of cultural negotiation. By...

"Sexology and Translation" is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars address the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of contexts during the period from the 1880s to the 1930s.

From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld s affective sexology, this book offers compelling new insights into how sexual ideas were formed in different contexts via a complex process of cultural negotiation. By...

French filmmaker Christophe HonorE challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside of Europe has left him largely unknown to U.S. audiences. In Christophe HonorE A Critical Introduction, authors David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias invite English-speaking scholars and cinEastes to explore HonorE's three most recognized films, Dans Paris (2006), Les Chansons d'amour (2007), and La Belle personne (2008)--"the trilogy." Gerstner and Nahmias...

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country s most politically engaged writers. These terms recognition, commercial success, political engagement suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas s fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility.

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country s most politically engaged writers. These terms recognition, commercial success, political engagement suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas s fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility.

This volume examines the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender that crossdressers genders are constructed and represented "in relation" to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures...

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that desire and anxiety together constitute the erotic in Shakespearean drama - circulating throughout the dramatic texts, traversing 'masculine' and 'feminine' sites, eliciting and expressing heterosexual and homoerotic fantasies, embodiments, and fears. This is the first book to present a...