Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature
Affected Potentials explores the relationship between incipient homosexuality and the affects of shame, anxiety and loneliness that underpin it in contemporary literature. Through a closed-text analysis, it is argued that these affects are central to the representation of developing homosexuality in...
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Curtin University
2023
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95428 |
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| author | Lawless, Evan Patrick |
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| description | Affected Potentials explores the relationship between incipient homosexuality and the affects of shame, anxiety and loneliness that underpin it in contemporary literature. Through a closed-text analysis, it is argued that these affects are central to the representation of developing homosexuality in literature and provide the foundation for exploring queer resistance of heteronormativity. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-954282024-07-04T00:42:38Z Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature Lawless, Evan Patrick Affected Potentials explores the relationship between incipient homosexuality and the affects of shame, anxiety and loneliness that underpin it in contemporary literature. Through a closed-text analysis, it is argued that these affects are central to the representation of developing homosexuality in literature and provide the foundation for exploring queer resistance of heteronormativity. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95428 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Lawless, Evan Patrick Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title | Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title_full | Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title_fullStr | Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title_short | Affected Potentials: The Dimensions of Incipient Homosexuality and Foundational Affect in Contemporary Gay Literature |
| title_sort | affected potentials: the dimensions of incipient homosexuality and foundational affect in contemporary gay literature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95428 |