Block Echoes of a Queer Messianic

From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6956-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Block, Richard O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. A Man’s Best Friend Is His Monster: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

2. Peter Schlemihl’s Wondrous Story or the Genesis of a Queer Jewish Outlaw

3. Queer Prosthetics or Male Tribadism in Kleist’s “On the Puppet Theater”

4. Queer Echoes Traversing Great Spaces: Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse and Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther

5. “I’m nothin’. I’m nowhere.”: Echoes of a Queer Messianic in Brokeback Mountain

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard O. Block is Associate Professor of Germanics at the University of Washington, Seattle and the author of The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe.