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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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)

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture 2000

16. Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture Jo Stevenson (2002)

17. Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture 2004 (2003)

18. Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture 2004

19. Jens KirkDept. of Languages and Culture 2007

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