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Queer gothic – queer modernism
Queer gothic – queer modernism

Author(s): Piotr Sobolczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Gothicism; queer; queer Gothic; queer Modernism; psychoanalysis;homophobia; paranoia

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the motifs of queerness (homosexuality) in classical (English) Gothic novels and indicates a parallel with the modern practices of reading and writing queerness. Additionally, it defines the place of queer Gothic on the map of queer Modernism at the turn of the 19th century and in the 20th century. Simultaneously, he poses a question about the reason for pushing this aesthetics to the margins of that whichis “highly artistic”, or its presence only in the mainstream – basically through pastiche, grotesque, stylization or the sole use of formal elements in a polyphonic or Silva rerum structure.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 71-93
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish