Echoes of a Queer Messianic
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Echoes of a Queer Messianic

From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain

Richard O. Block

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Echoes of a Queer Messianic

From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain

Richard O. Block

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Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lover's Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of well-known texts by Shelley, Kleist, and Goethe, arguing that this early writing serves as a creative font for much of the subsequent work in sexology. These texts also provide echoes of a kind of love overlooked or suppressed in favor of a politics of appeasement or one intended to make queers model citizens. This book charts the unexplored possibilities for queer love in an attempt to map a future for gay politics in the age of homonormativity.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781438469560
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
LGBT Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

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