Chances Are

Chances Are

Contingency, Queer Theory and American Literature

Rohy, Valerie

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2019

174

Mole

Inglês

9781138290600

15 a 20 dias

254

Descrição não disponível.
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Taking Chances

* Heterosexual Necessity

2. Gambling on Marriage: The House of Mirth and The Pit

3. The Calculus of Probabilities: "The Mystery of Marie Roget"

* Accidental Narratives

4. Alger and Emerson: Racism, Retroaction, and the Marriage Plot

5. Racial Contingency: Iola Leroy and Passing

* Contingent Reading

6. Interpretation by Chance: Bechdel, Winnicott, Woolf

7. Exchanging Hours: A Dialogue on Time

8. Conclusion: Not Knowing

Notes

Index
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Young Man;Feminism, Queer Theory, Sexuality, literary theory, critical theory, psychoanalytic theory, narrative theory, American Literature, LGBT studies, chance, Women's and Gender Studies, psychoanalytic criticism;Hero's Journey;LGBT studies;Actual Card Games;queer hermeneutic methods;Universal Writing;heteronormative culture;Alison Bechdel;contingency concept;Krafft Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis;Sailor's Knot;Constitutive Luck;LGBTQ Life;Marriage Plot;Red Headed League;Reproductive Futurism;Retroactive Revision;Paranoid Reading;Reparative Reading;Clare's Death;Rue Morgue;Fatal Determinism;Aid Writing;Ephemeral Time;Horatio Alger Story;Holmes Canon;Poe's Text;Lover's Discourse;Queer Time