On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
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Category: Literary Studies
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles
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Category: Literary Studies
An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word "path ...Show more
Queer Oz - L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender by Tison Pugh
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Children's Literature Association Ser.
Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum's fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes. Baum's life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexual ...Show more
Secret Historian Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, "Secret Historian "is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stei ...Show more
Shakespeare and Queer Representation by Stephen Guy-Bray
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Spotlight on Shakespeare Ser.
In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Qu ...Show more
Sissinghurst: the Dream Garden by Tim Richardson; National Trust (As told to); Jason Ingram (By (photographer)); Dan Pearson (Foreword by)
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Category: Literary Studies
Step inside the world's most famous garden and understand the strength of its attraction since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville West and diplomat Harold Nicholson in the 1930s. This unforgettable garden of rooms is influential today for its design, its exuberant planting, and its e ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
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Category: Literary Studies
'Magisterial and saucy . . . This fresh account kickstarts the queer canon of English literature: Shakespeare won't go back in the closet again'EMMA SMITH, author of This Is ShakespeareWas Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . .Shakespeare's work was profo ...Show more
The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction & Nonfiction by Christopher Bram
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: The Art of ...
One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical events and figures into a shapely narrative is no simple task. The acclaimed novelist Christopher Bram e ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Eddé; Andrew Rubens (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Essential Gore Vidal by Vidal, Gore
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Category: Literary Studies
Vidal writes with ease and grace, and roams through many subjects and genres. He is a master of the historical novel, in which he has explored American history, ancient history, and the history of religion. He has developed his own style of science fiction combined with satire, and in the books he refer ...Show more
The Male Homosexual in Literature - A Bibliography by Ian Young
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Category: Literary Studies
Ian Young's bibliography has served as a basic guide to English-language works of fiction, drama, poetry and autobiography concerned with male homosexuality or having male homosexual characters. Entries include titles published through 1980. Works of primary importance (those in which homosexuality is a ...Show more