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Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm
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
All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Michael Jackson: Queer Funk, Steven Bruhm
Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm
Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm
Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
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
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
Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Steven Bruhm
Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic, Steven Bruhm
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 …
Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm
Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Reforming Byron’S Narcissism, Steven Bruhm
Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian And Gay Vernacular, By Robin Metcalfe, Steven Bruhm
Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian And Gay Vernacular, By Robin Metcalfe, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm
Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’S Homographesis, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Queer, Queer Vladimir, Steven Bruhm
Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm
Taking One To Know One: Oscar Wilde And Narcissism, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Roderick Random’S Closet, Steven Bruhm
Blackmailed By Sex: Tennessee Williams And The Economics Of Desire, Steven Bruhm
Blackmailed By Sex: Tennessee Williams And The Economics Of Desire, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.