Queer Philologies - 9780812247862
Un libro in lingua di Jeffrey Masten edito da Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2016
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For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. InQueer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like "homosexual," "sodomy," and "tribade" in a variety of cultures and historical periods, Masten argues that just as the history of sexuality requires the history of language, so too does philology, "the love of the word," require the analytical lens provided by the study of sexuality.
Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender—terms such as "conversation" and "intercourse," "fundament" and "foundation," "friend" and "boy"—that described bodies, pleasures, emotions, sexual acts, even (to the extent possible in this period) sexual identities. Analyzing the continuities as well as differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, he offers up a queer lexicon in which the letter "Q" is perhaps the queerest character of all.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Queer Philologies
- Sottotitolo: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Jeffrey Masten
- Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
- Collana: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Giugno '16
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Language and sex England History 16th century Language and sex England History 17th century
- Pagine: 353
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 0
- ISBN-10: 0812247868
- EAN-13: 9780812247862