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Defying "Development": Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in Sandford and Merton 藐视“发展”:托马斯·戴在桑福德和默顿的酷儿课程

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-009

A. Chandler

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Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends 巴尔扎克的《古怪的表亲和他们的朋友

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-008

Michael H. Lucey

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Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters 唇读:伍尔夫的秘密邂逅

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-017

Stephen P. Barber

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Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You 偏执狂阅读与修复性阅读或者，你太偏执了，你可能认为这篇介绍是关于你的

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-002

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust 奇异的美食家:品味，浪费，普鲁斯特

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 1996-09-22 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-004

Joseph Litvak

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Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity 撕裂山羊的肉:同性恋，落魄，和20世纪后期黑人男子气概的生产

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 1996-09-22 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-015

R. Reid-Pharr

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Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel 在危机中锻造:一部经典法国小说中现代男性气质的古怪开端

Novel Gazing Pub Date : 1996-09-22 DOI: 10.1515/9780822382478-011

James Creech

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