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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the history of sexual politics and sexual meaning in the English language, focusing on the early 20th century and its relationship with homosocial desire.
Abstract: Introductioni. Homosocial Desireii. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaningiii. Sex or History?iv. What This Book Does1. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles2. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets3. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire4. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World5. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic6. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner7. Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers8. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female9. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend10. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of EmpireCoda: Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman
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TL;DR: The evidence of experience as discussed by the authors is a semiotic principle that there is no unmediated access to reality-that language, in the form of available discourses, prefigures our perception of the world-to the heart of the traditional historian's notion of historical transparency.
Abstract: Feminist historian Joan Scott’s classic essay, “The Evidence of Experience,” many
times reprinted, extends the semiotic principle that there is no unmediated access to
reality-that language, in the form of available discourses, prefigures our perception
of the world-to the heart of the traditional historian’s notion of historical transparency, the evidence of experience. For most historians, from Herodotus on,
evidence (a word derived from the Latin videre, to see), typically functions as the
bedrock of historical truth and objectivity, since it is grounded in the testimony of
those who actually experience “what happened.” The essay opens with Samuel
Delany’s account of a visit to a homosexual bathhouse, an experience that, in its
powerful visibility, persuaded him of the “fact” of homosexuality as a mass movement, shaping the shared lives of millions of men and women, in contrast to the view
of homosexuals at the time as “isolated” marginal figures. Delany’s reliance on the
“truth” of the evidence provided by his experience of the bathhouse is analogous to
the historian’s belief in a referential notion of evidence that presents it as a “reflection
of the real.”
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01 Jan 1991TL;DR: One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies, the Routledge Translation Classic as mentioned in this paper is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline of translation.
Abstract: One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies,
this Routledge Translation Classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline.
Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth
century, Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame shows
how rewriting – translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism, editing –
infl uences the reception and canonization of works of literature.
Firmly placing the production and reception of literature within the wider
framework of a culture and its history, Andre Lefevere explores how rewriting
manipulates works of literature to ideological and artistic ends, and demonstrates
how rewriting a text can give it a new, sometimes subversive, historical or
literary status.
Ranging across various literatures, including Classical Latin, French, and
German, and here reissued with a new foreword by Scott G. Williams, this is a
seminal text for all students and specialists in translation studies, literary theory,
and comparative and world literature.
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TL;DR: For example, this paper found that homosociality organizes men's sociosexual relations in at least four ways: male-male friendships take priority over male-female relations, platonic friendships with women are dangerously feminizing, and other men are the audience, always imagined and sometimes real, for one's sexual activities.
Abstract: Male-male social bonds have a powerful influence on the sexual relations of some young heterosexual men. Qualitative analysis among young men aged eighteen to twenty-six in Canberra, Australia, documents the homosocial organization of men's heterosexual relations. Homosociality organizes men's sociosexual relations in at least four ways. For some of these young men, male-male friendships take priority over male-female relations, and platonic friendships with women are dangerously feminizing. Sexual activity is a key path to masculine status, and other men are the audience, always imagined and sometimes real, for one's sexual activities. Heterosexual sex itself can be the medium through which male bonding is enacted. Last, men's sexual storytelling is shaped by homosocial masculine cultures. While these patterns were evident particularly among young men in the highly homosocial culture of a military academy, their presence also among other groups suggests the wider influence of homosociality on men's sexual and social relations.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the challenge of Queer Globalization and the challenges of transnational urbanism are discussed. But the authors focus on the economic aspects of queer mobility and the politics of migration and tourism.
Abstract: Sexuality and Social Theory - the Challenge of Queer Globalization The Nation and Sexual Dissidence Locating Queer Globalization The Economics of Queer Globalization Queer Postcolonialism Queer Mobility and the Politics of Migration and Tourism AIDS and Queer Globalization Queering Transnational Urbanism Conclusion
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