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Jens Kirk Dept. of Languages and Culture Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present Session Five

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Agenda  Queer desire  Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  Projects and themes for further study: postmodern love

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Queer  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men:  Bennett & Royle, ”Queer”

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Queer: Identity markers  Identity markers: Spurs fan Spurs fan Straight Straight Non-smoker Non-smoker Male Male Laesoe devotee Laesoe devotee Danish Danish  Identity markers 186 cm Cock-eyed Novel reader White (caucasian) University teacher Angler

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Queer  Queer challenges gender and sexual identity essentialisms: social, historical, and cultural constructivism  Literature is queer: Canon is produced by straight and homosexuals Canon is produced by straight and homosexuals Canon challenges gender and sexual identity essentialisms Canon challenges gender and sexual identity essentialisms Homosocial and homosexual desireHomosocial and homosexual desire Literature departs from straight-forward accounts (the uncanny, defamiliarisation) Literature departs from straight-forward accounts (the uncanny, defamiliarisation)

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  First impressions and interesting features  Queer

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  First impressions and interesting features  The title, the table of contents (menu), the chapter headings

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  First impressions and interesting features  The title, the table of contents (menu), the chapter headings  Point of view, style and voice

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  First impressions and interesting features  The title, the table of contents (menu), the chapter headings  Point of view, style and voice  Plot and characterisation

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook  First impressions and interesting features  The title, the table of contents (menu), the chapter headings, intertextuality  Point of view, style and voice  Plot and characterisation  Imagery

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook The image of the funicular railway (89-89)

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Projects and themes for further study: postmodern love  Romanticism and idealism  Realism and Victorianism  Modernism  Postmodernism

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Postmodern Love  The paradox of postmodern love: the site of absolute value and the site of scepticism – eg love is a quotation, copy, simulation

Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Great Love Stories  John and Fanny  James and Nora  Posh and Becks

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