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The Gothic Novel And The Negotiation Of Homophobia.Pdf, Steven Bruhm Dec 2013

The Gothic Novel And The Negotiation Of Homophobia.Pdf, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

This essay considers the critical commonplace that classic Gothic narratives such as The Monk and Carmilla are transparent windows onto the state of "homophobia" during their moments of production. It traces how, in the case of The Monk, readers have been prone to read for the novelist's fear that his own "sexuality" will somehow be discovered, whereas the novel more accurately makes an intervention in heteronormative sex as the object of its parody. Carmilla, conversely, often finds its relatively straight-forward narrative of lesbian desire displaced by lesbianism's more metonymic associations with race and empire; to read for the lesbian …


Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter's Counterfeit Families, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter's Counterfeit Families, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm Dec 2012

Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films proliferate sites …


Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Gothic Oklahoma!: The Dream Ballet, Steven Bruhm Dec 2009

Gothic Oklahoma!: The Dream Ballet, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Michael Jackson: Queer Funk, Steven Bruhm Dec 2008

Michael Jackson: Queer Funk, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm Dec 2006

Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm Oct 2006

Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

The late twentieth century is fascinated by the phenomenon of the gothic child, the child who manifests evil, violence, and sexual aggression. On the face of it, this evil is “caused” by either medical or social factors: medicinal drugs, radiation, or the corrupting influences of political others. However, this essay argues that the gothic child actually arises from conflicting forces of child-philosophies, the intersection of Romantic childhood innocence with Freudian depth models. These models tacitly point to a child that “is” rather than “is made”, a child that belies contemporary parental attempts to make it be otherwise. Moreover, the idea …


Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm Dec 2005

Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley Dec 2003

Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley Dec 2003

Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley

Steven Bruhm

Our culture has a dominant narrative about children: they are (and should stay) innocent of sexual desires and intentions. At the same time, children are officially, tacitly, assumed to be heterosexual. Curiouser is a book about this narrative and what happens when it takes an unexpected, or queer, turn—when the stories of childhood must confront a child whose play does not conform to the ideal of child (a)sexuality.

The contributors to Curiouser examine the ostensibly simple representations of children that circulate through visual images, life narrative, children’s literature, film, and novels. At issue in these essays are the stories we …


Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm Dec 2003

Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Viewing In Discretion, Steven Bruhm Dec 2003

Viewing In Discretion, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Steven Bruhm Dec 2002

Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Grab Your Baskets, Girls, We’Re Going Shopping!, Steven Bruhm Dec 2001

Grab Your Baskets, Girls, We’Re Going Shopping!, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm Jan 2000

David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic, Steven Bruhm Dec 1999

Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

The figure of Narcissus, literally falling for himself, has profoundly influenced Western philosophy and literary theory: he signifies transcendental idealism and its nemesis, vanity; he underlies autoeroticism and misogyny; he has a crucial place in poststructuralist French thought. Yet, for all this, Narcissus is rarely if ever seen in his primary attitude-as a man erotically desiring another man.

In Reflecting Narcissus, Steven Bruhm traces the complex uses of Narcissus in cultural and aesthetic formulations from the eighteenth century to the present and returns Narcissus's essential homoeroticism to a central place in this history. Extending the horizons of queer, feminist, and …


Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Gothic Body, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm Dec 1997

Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian And Gay Vernacular, By Robin Metcalfe, Steven Bruhm Dec 1996

Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian And Gay Vernacular, By Robin Metcalfe, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


On Stephen King's Phallus.Pdf, Steven Bruhm Dec 1995

On Stephen King's Phallus.Pdf, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

This article considers Stephen King's The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, and The Dark Half alongside Lacan's theories of the terror of the signifier. I argue that writing as a (phallic) act is a means of dis-empowerment and homophobic terrorizing in King's protagonists, all of whom have a specially vexed relationship to language and expression.


Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm Dec 1995

Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Queer, Queer Vladimir, Steven Bruhm Dec 1995

Queer, Queer Vladimir, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics Of Cultural Dismemberment. David Collings, Steven Bruhm Oct 1995

Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics Of Cultural Dismemberment. David Collings, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm Dec 1994

Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.