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Henry James and the Queerness of Style
Kevin Ohi
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Description for Henry James and the Queerness of Style
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry James—particularly the late texts—is to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts that James’s queerness is to be found neither in the homoerotic thematics of the texts, however startlingly explicit, nor in the suggestions of same-sex desire in the author’s biography, however undeniable, but in his style.
For Ohi, there are many elements in the style that make James’s writing queer. But if there is a thematic marker, Ohi shows ... Read more
Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry James—particularly the late texts—is to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts that James’s queerness is to be found neither in the homoerotic thematics of the texts, however startlingly explicit, nor in the suggestions of same-sex desire in the author’s biography, however undeniable, but in his style.
For Ohi, there are many elements in the style that make James’s writing queer. But if there is a thematic marker, Ohi shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665112
SKU
V9780816665112
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About Kevin Ohi
Kevin Ohi is associate professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov.
Reviews for Henry James and the Queerness of Style
"Henry James and the Queerness of Style is a brilliant, extraordinarily erudite exemplar of reading and writing as queer practices. It will help to usher in a fresh phase of James studies, in which queerness is the point of embarkation, rather than the ultimate destination." —Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College