1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452347303321

Titolo

Reclaiming the sacred : the Bible in gay and lesbian culture / / Raymond-Jean Frontain, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-203-05718-X

1-299-46051-8

1-136-57096-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrontainRaymond-Jean

Disciplina

820.9/920664

Soggetti

Gays' writings, English - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain

Christianity and literature - Great Britain

English literature - History and criticism

Holy, The, in literature

Religion and literature

Lesbians in literature

Gay men in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTRIBUTORS; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: "Naked Man with Naked Man"; Chapter 3 The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text; Chapter 4 The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained; Chapter 5 Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom; Chapter 6 "What a Friend We Have in Jesus": Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature

Chapter 7 Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's "The Life to Come"Chapter 8 The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall; Chapter 9 Narrative Inversion: The Biblical



Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart; Chapter 10 Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeanette Winterson's: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Chapter 11 "All Men Are Divine": Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature?a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that exp

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148738303321

Titolo

Disability and art history / / edited by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-43998-0

1-315-44000-8

1-315-43999-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Collana

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

HowieElizabeth

Millett-GallantAnn <1975->

Disciplina

701/.03

Soggetti

People with disabilities in art

Art and society

Sociology of disability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Artists and muses : "Peter's World" and other photographs by Susan Harbage Page / Ann Millett-Gallant -- 2. Exploiting, degrading, and



repellent : against a biased interpretation of contemporary art about disability / Nina Heindl -- 3. Nothing is missing : spiritual elevation of a visually impaired Moche shaman / Rebecca R. Stone -- 4. Divining disability : criticism as diagnosis in Mesoamerican art history / William T. Gassaway -- 5. Difference and disability in the photography of Margaret Bourke-White / Keri Watson -- 6. Representing disability in post-World War II photography / Timothy W. Hiles -- 7. The disabled veteran of World War I in the mirror of contemporary art : the reception of Otto Dix's painting The cripples (1920) in Yael Bartana's film Degenerate art lives (2010) / Anne Marno -- 8. Disabling surrealism : reconstituting surrealist tropes in contemporary art / Amanda Cachia -- 9. The dandy Victorian : Yinka Shonibare's allegory of disability and passing / Elizabeth Howie -- 10. Crafting disabled sexuality : the visual language of Nomy Lamm's "Wall of Fire" / Shayda Kafai.