Studies in the Novel articles from September 1996

Studies in the Novel archives from September 1996

Introduction: queerer than fiction. (Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... In the last paragraphs of Freud's essay on the paranoid Dr. Schreber, there is discussion of what Freud considers a "striking similarity" between Schreber's persecutory delusion and Freud's own theory. Freud was indeed later to generalize,...

Pursuing perfection: 'Dombey and Son,' female homoerotic desire, and the sentimental heroine.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... If Dombey and Son is a novel about men improperly perceiving women, not correctly employing them to do their assigned work in the ordering of home and commerce, it is also and equally a novel about how women perceive each other. Even as the...

Forged in crisis: queer beginnings of modern masculinity in a canonical French novel.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... Si les curs chosissaient leurs favoris parmi les plus beaux jeunots, tous ceux-ci ne vent pas destines a rester femmes. Ils s'eveillent a la virilite et les hommes leur font une place a cote d'eux. --Jean Genet Miracle de la rose ...

Strange brothers. (homosexuality in Willa Cather's novels)(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... I first read Willa Cather when I was in high school. I can no longer remember which novel we were assigned--it must have been O Pioneers! or My Antonia--but I can still recall what it felt like to be reading Cather then. Once I had read the...

Strange gourmet: taste, waste, Proust. (gay writings, Marcel Proust)(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... I. Dining with Proust Sa haine des snobs decoulait de son snobisme, mais faisait croire aux naifs, c'est-a-dire a tout le monde, qu'il en etait exempt. Proust, Le Cote'de Guermantes Of all the gay male writers in...

The importance of being bored: the dividends of ennui in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... My story is much too sad to be told Almost everything leaves me totally cold. --Cole Porter Believe it or not, there is still a secret left to be told about The Picture of Dorian Gray, a secret no less open, only less sensational...

Tearing the goat's flesh: homosexuality, abjection and the production of a late twentieth-century black masculinity.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Exodus 23:19 Chivo que rompe tambor con su pellejo paga. Abakua proverb. Diana Fuss has argued in a recent discussion of contemporary gay and lesbian theory that the figure of what...

The female world of exorcism and displacement (or, relations between women in Henry James's nineteenth century 'The Portrait of a Lady').(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... To exclude the words "love" and "ritual" in a reappropriation of Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's 1975 title(1) is to deroutinize an assumption about the goodness and kindness, the near utopic empathy, fixed as definitional to female same-sex...

"Sinister fruitiness": 'Neuromancer,' Internet sexuality and the Turing test.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... "Yeah. I saw your profile, Case.... You ever work with the dead?"(1) The immediate subject of this essay is a set of anxious, confusing, and at times threatening questions posed by computer-mediated communication technology, popularly known...

Prophylactics and brains: 'Beloved' in the cybernetic age of AIDS.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
September 22, 1996... One: The Dead We lean along their edges in the act of contemplation, for they reside, with strange intermittence, behind our eyes, in the boat of the brain. We wonder how they breathe, how air reaches them at the length of such an...