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  • Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

    Creator:
    Simpson, Taylor
    Abstract:
    The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
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    Masters Thesis
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    nonconforming urges. Queer theorist and transgender historian Jay Prosser notes the similarities between

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

    Creator:
    Drury, Adam Marshall
    Abstract:
    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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    Masters Thesis