Phenomenology of the Closet:Cultural, Sexual, and Textual (Dis)Orientation in Henry James's The Ambassadors

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Tim Wyman-McCarthy

关键词: Henry James;    Sarah Ahmed;    Queer Theory;    Formalism;    Reader-Response Theory;    Disorientation;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

Place can be a space for grounding, rootedness and comfort, but equally it can dislocate, dislodge and disorient a subject. Following Sarah Ahmed, I take disorientation as a particular generative term through which to interrogate queer phenomenology. I investigate, through a close reading of Henry James's The Ambassadors, how cultural, sexual and stylistic (dis)orientation can contribute to how asubject can instigate and participate in a queer space.

【 授权许可】

CC BY