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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779237803321

Autore

Salvato Nick <1978->

Titolo

Uncloseting drama [[electronic resource] ] : American modernism and queer performance / / Nick Salvato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-16017-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 227 p.)

Collana

Yale studies in English

Disciplina

810.9/920664

Soggetti

Gay people's writings, American

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:  Half in and half out -- Fronting Pound -- Bottoming Zukofsky -- Topping Stein -- Backing Barnes -- Conclusion:  Other closets, other rooms -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this elegant book, modernism is illuminated through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the "closet drama"-plays written largely for private reading-as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.