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Setting the Record Queer
Dirk Schulz
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Description for Setting the Record Queer
Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
»To define is to limit«, Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway »would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that«. Why then are the respective novels mostly read - and in recent adaptations rewritten - in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs? Bringing the two literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical ... Read more
»To define is to limit«, Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway »would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that«. Why then are the respective novels mostly read - and in recent adaptations rewritten - in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs? Bringing the two literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837617450
SKU
V9783837617450
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About Dirk Schulz
Dirk Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the English Department of the University of Cologne, where he teaches courses on anglophone literature and culture, and is editorial assistant of »Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies«. His fields of interest include literary and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, semiotics, the gothic, popular culture and critical theory.
Reviews for Setting the Record Queer
Reviewed in: Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 23.2/9 (2012), Sylvia Mieszkowski