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The Pleasure of the Text
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Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice.read more
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Reframing drag performance : beyond theorisations of drag as subverting or upholding the status quo
TL;DR: This article explored central preoccupations traversing diverse theories of drag, focusing particularly on three issues: the relationship between drag and performativity, the assumption that a drag performer's gender differs from the gender they perform on stage, and the positioning of drag as necessarily either either either subversive or reactionary.
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Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties by George McKay:
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Criss-Cross: Identity and Transformation in Re-reading Billy Elliot
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination of the identity formation of some of the film's subsidiary characters shows how fluidity and transformation are key to the opening up of a jouissance which is enabled by but goes beyond its central character.
Editorial Bodies in Ancient Roman Rhetorical Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on several key episodes when rhetoric's evaluative corporeal vocabulary becomes explicitly editorial, as demonstrated by representations of "corpus care." In a bodily idiom, certain ancient writers purport to reveal the time and labor they have spent preparing a text for publication or to demean writers who do not bother with textual polish.