Essays about: "Queer readings"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Queer readings.
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1. Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in L.M. Montgomery´s Anne of Green Gables
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : This essay will demonstrate how the character Anne from Anne of Green Gables is open to multiple interpretations. I specifically look at the character Anne from the perspective of gender and queer theory. Anne can be read as someone who has both feminine and masculine traits. READ MORE
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2. Frankenstein Unmasked : A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay analyzes the theme of “Otherness” in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through three different lenses: queer readings, feminist readings, and disability studies, which will offer multiple perspectives of the “Otherness” present in the novel. The essay will engage with critics such as Benjamin Bagocius, Fuson Wang, and Colleen Hobbs. READ MORE
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3. The Haunting of Hill House: The Heterosexual Horror of the Home
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The female gothic as a genre, with its emergence in the 19th century, has a history of critiquing women’s place in the domestic sphere by showcasing the horrors of the home. When The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was first published in 1959, it did so with both this historical genre background, as well as with a resurgence of traditional gender roles as an ideal. READ MORE
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4. "Here you See me, and I am you": Queerness in the Poetry of John Donne
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis examines queerness in the poetry of John Donne by re-examining same-gender desire in his poetry, proposing metaphysical poetry as having points of similarity with queering strategies and queer theory, and exploring contextual and historical tensions within and around Donne’s body of works. The thesis closely analyses poems which have previously been discussed as queer, such as “Sapho to Philaenis,” and “Batter my heart,” as well as less frequently examined poems such as “The Anniversary,” and “The Dissolution. READ MORE
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5. Art history through a queer lens - Focalization and semiotics applied to two Instagram accounts dedicated to queer art history
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis examines how queer art history is created through the interaction between two Instagram accounts, the art they post, and their followers. This thesis has analysed how the semiotic meaning-making construct a representation of queerness and what the effects are of a queer focalization in a social media context. READ MORE
