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035 _a(DE-B1597)555159
035 _a(OCoLC)1101101114
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072 7 _aLIT006000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSeitler, Dana
_eautore
245 1 0 _aReading Sideways :
_bThe Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction /
_cDana Seitler.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Strange Beauty --
_t2. Small Collectivity and the Low Arts --
_t3. The Impossible Art Object of Desire --
_t4. Willa Cather and W. E. B. Du Bois Go to the Opera --
_tConclusion --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aReading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American literature. It tracks the crosswise circulation of aesthetic ideas in fiction and argues that at stake in the aesthetic turn of these works was not only the theorization of aesthetic experience but also an engagement with political arguments and debates about available modes of sociability and sexual expression. To track these engagements, its author, Dana Seitler, performs a method she calls "lateral reading," a mode of interpretation that moves horizontally through various historical entanglements and across the fields of the arts to make sense of-and see in a new light-their connections, challenges, and productive frictions. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera. These art forms appear in some of the major works of literature of the period central to negotiations of gender, race, and sexuality, including those by Henry James, Davis, Willa Cather, Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. But the literary texts that each chapter of this book takes as its motivation not only include a specific art form or object as central to its politics, they also build an alternative aesthetic vocabulary through which they seek to alter, challenge, or participate in the making of social and sexual life. By cultivating a counter-aesthetics of the unfinished, the uncertain, the small, the low, and the allusive, these fictions recognize other ways of knowing and being than those oriented toward reductively gendered accounts of beauty, classed imperatives established by the norms of taste, or apolitical treatises of sexual disinterestedness. And within them-and through "reading sideways"-we can witness the coming-into-legibility of a set of diffuse practices that provide a pivot point for engaging the political methods of minoritized subjects at the turn of the twentieth century.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 4 _aGender & Sexuality.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
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653 _aAesthetics and Politics.
653 _aAmerican fiction.
653 _aGender and Sexuality.
653 _aQueer Aesthetics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282647?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823282647
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