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28%OFFChristian Lassen - Camp Comforts - 9783837618143 - V9783837618143
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Camp Comforts

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Description for Camp Comforts Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
"Camp Comforts" investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing. Christian Lassen argues that camp may in fact serve both ends, social change and personal healing, and goes on to explore reparative reading practices in order to rehabilitate alleviation and relief as vital objectives in literary representations of gay grief. In this way, "Camp Comforts" reveals the workings that make camp so crucial a strategy for survival in times ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837618143
SKU
V9783837618143
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About Christian Lassen
Christian Lassen teaches English literature and British cultural studies at the University of Oldenburg. His research interests include queer studies, gender studies and contemporary literature.

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