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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Main Author: Lawless, Evan Patrick
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95428
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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