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"Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in depicting sexuality, but modes of queerness, including queer scopophilia, queer dialogue, queer characters, and queer performances, fractured prevailing restraints. Many of these plays were produced within male homosocial environments, and thus homosociality served as a narrative precondition of their storylines. Building from these foundations, On the Queerness of Early English Drama investigates occluded depictions of sexuality in late medieval and early Tudor dramas. Tison Pugh explores a range of topics, including the unstable genders of the York Corpus Christi Plays, the morally instructive humour of excremental allegory in Mankind, the confused relationship of sodomy and chastity in John Bale's historical interludes, and the camp artifice and queer carnival of Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. Pugh concludes with Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, pondering the afterlife of medieval drama and its continued utility in probing cultural constructions of gender and sexuality."--

English drama --- Sexual minorities in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- History and criticism --- To 1500 --- England. --- David Lyndsay. --- Everyman. --- John Bale. --- Terrence McNally. --- Tudor. --- York Corpus Christi Plays. --- allegory. --- drama. --- early English drama. --- medieval. --- morality plays. --- queer scopophilia. --- queer. --- sexuality. --- theatre.

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Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated. She sketches the European influences that produced the German flaneur and establishes the figure as a pervasive presence in Weimar culture, as well as a profound influence on modern perceptions of public space. The book begins by exploring the theory of literary flanerie and the technological changes--street lighting, public transportation, and the emergence of film--that gave a new status to the activities of seeing and walking in the modern city. Gleber then assesses the place of flanerie in works by Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and other representatives of Weimar literature, arts, and theory. She draws particular attention to the works of Franz Hessel, a Berlin flaneur who argued that flanerie is a "reading" of the city that perceives passersby, streets, and fleeting impressions as the transitory signs of modernity. Gleber also examines connections between flanerie and Weimar film, and discusses female flanerie as a means of asserting female subjectivity in the public realm. The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space.

Arts, Modern --- Modernism. --- Modernizem. --- Literary theory. --- Literarna teorija. --- Film. --- Theory of arts. --- Teorija umetnosti. --- Arts and literature. --- Umetnost in književnost. --- Arts, German --- Flaneurs in literature. --- Flaneurs in art. --- Germany. --- Nemčija. --- Aragon, Louis. --- Augenblick. --- Benjamin, Walter. --- Berlin. --- Bildung. --- Denkbild. --- Goll, Yvan. --- Hake, Sabine. --- Hessel, Franz. --- Jünger, Ernst. --- Koch, Gertrud. --- Kracauer, Siegfried. --- Kurfürstendamm. --- Landwehrkanal. --- Lichtspiele. --- Lumière brothers. --- Munich. --- National Socialism. --- New Subjectivity. --- New Woman. --- advertising. --- boredom. --- camera. --- capitalism. --- cinema. --- commodity. --- dandy. --- detective. --- eroticism. --- fashion. --- feuilleton. --- film theory. --- historian. --- industrialization. --- melancholy. --- modernity. --- photography. --- psychoanalysis. --- railroads. --- scopophilia. --- semiotics. --- spectator. --- tourism.