Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio : modernist playwrights / / Zsuzsanna Balázs

• Autore: Balázs Zsuzsanna
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, , [2024]; ©2024
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages)
• Disciplina: 822.809
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Is Queer About Yeats and D'Annunzio? -- The Challenges of Queering Straight Canonical Modernists -- Queer Modernism -- References -- Chapter 2: Family, Normativity, and the Will to Escape -- The Happy Family and Affect Aliens in The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) -- The Pressure of the Patria Potestas and Melancholy Masculinities in Calvary (1920) -- Violent Families, Comforting Sisterhood Bonds, and Death as Escape in Francesca da Rimini (1901) -- Leaving the Clan: The Will of the Individual in The Daughter of Iorio (1904) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Moral Prudery, Respectability, and Broken Intimacies -- Choosing Desire over the Nation: Shame and Impossible Love in The Dreaming of the Bones (1919) -- Non-normative Temporality and Broken Intimacies in The Cat and the Moon (1926) -- Incestuous Desire, Lesbian Intimacies, and Friendship in The Dead City (1896) -- Moving Beyond Shame: The Power of the Non-normative in Phaedra (1909) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Sadomasochistic Attachments: Reverse Power and Erotic Stimulations -- Parodying Power Roles: S/M Dynamics in On Baile's Strand (1904) -- "I Shall Embrace Body and Cruelty": Desire and Power in A Full Moon in March (1935) -- A Queer Martyr: Sadomasochistic Power Plays in Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (1911) -- Lesbian Sadomasochism in La Pisanelle, ou la Mort Parfumée (1913) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Defiant Dykes: New Women against Patriarchy -- Death as Liberation in Yeats's Deirdre (1907): Deceiving the Oppressor -- "The Woman Born to Be Queen": Performance of Power in The Player Queen (1922) -- Killing Tyrants: D'Annunzio's Glory (1899) -- Seducing Patriarchal Power: Basiliola as Superwoman in The Ship (1908). ; Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio
• ISBN: 3-031-42068-3; 9783031420689; 3031420683
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910766887503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.