Tendencies
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ""the soft-spoken queen of gay studies"" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from ""Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl"" to a show more performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking show lessTags
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center
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- Canonical title
- Tendencies
- Original publication date
- 1993
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Sexuality and Gender Studies, LGBTQ+, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 809.93353 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying other aspects Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects Humanity Human psychological and moral qualities
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- PN56 .H57 .S43 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Theory. Philosophy. Esthetics
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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