A THOUSAND WORDS: PORTRAITURE, STYLE, AND QUEER MODERNISM
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814290957 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 487 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A unique and seminal work of literary analysis Independent scholar and English teacher Jaime Hovey presents "A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism", a unique and seminal work of literary analysis proposing the case for a 'queer modernism', and that the literary portrait - a favored form of experimentalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century writing - served as an aesthetic mechanism for this 'queer modernism' phenomena. Though literary portraiture speaks volumes about the complicated connection between identity, sexuality, and art, very little writing has specifically addressed 'queer modernism
"I found A Thousand Words a pleasure to read, the writing smooth, clear, clever, and provocative." -- —Judith Roof, author of All About Thelma and Eve: Side-Kicks and Third Wheels
. Jaime Hovey is an independent scholar who has taught English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Miami
A Thousand Words argues that there is such a thing as queer modernism, and that the (mostly) literary portrait—one of the more prominent forms of experimentalism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing—functions as one of its most important erotically dynamic aesthetic mechanisms, one modeled on visual portraiture’s relationships of looking between the artists, sitters, and spectators of paintings. This book demonstrates that literary portraiture is enamored of its own self-consciousness, with the pleasures of looking at itself seeing itself, and that its texts circulate this pleasure between writers, narrators and other characters, and readers as a perverse aesthetics..