Homoeroticism

I’m incredibly tired of seeing myself bastardized and killed on TV. As an avid connoisseur of pop culture and popular television, the practice queerbaiting the audience and/or killing minority characters is a distressing trend that contributes to the continuing prejudice against LGBTQ people across the United States and around the world. Pop culture influences the citizens (and leaders) of our nation, who then vote and promote policy, which shapes the future citizenry, who then vote...and the…

As there are many impressive and impactful poets out there, Emily Dickinson is to be known as the most awe-inspiring and unique poets of all time. She was known for her actions of opposing the rules of poetry and made poetry into her own style. Even though her life was not full of excitement and pleasure, she organized her poems in a radical and far-reaching manner. Generally now, she is recognized for her death-related poetry; although, she also surrounded her poems with the spiritual mind,…

Montagu’s relationship to the subsequent formation of Orientalist aesthetics is another relevant area of study. Grundy points to Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a relevant parallel to Montagu’s experience, arguing it as a potential citation on Woolf’s part. More recently, Alison Winch’s article “‘Drinking a Dish of Tea With Sappho’: The Sexual Fantasies of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lord Byron” discusses Byron’s reported fascination with Montagu; he supposedly occupied her same Venetian house…

Oscar Wilde is often regarded as the most notorious writers of the Victorian-era and one of the most famous writers of all time through his controversial works. His writing has inspired and influenced many through his commentary on his society and the shallow nature of people, while also being considered a martyr for the homosexual movement. His most notorious work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is often regarded as a reflection of his life, homosexuality, and his religious upbringing. Wilde used…

autobiography, this work is a fiction novel that was popular among the white and black middle classes of America when it was published. This text explores topics such as social status, appropriation and assimilation, interracial relationships, homoeroticism, and identity construction. Contemporary scholars’ approach this text and its multitude of themes through the use of New Historicism/ Cultural Studies, Post Colonial, Marxist, Queer, and Psychoanalytical theories. Nick Hefferman’s “You…

appeared to her with intentions of making her piety visible to the world. The text states, “ He wanted that I suffer for the duration of my life, and therefore that I arrqange myself in the form of the cross because he wanted to imprint his Holy wounds on my body” (Brown 57). According to the text, receiving the stigmata was a miracle with extreme prestige, and it brought much power to Benedetta in her convent. The second significant element in Benedetta’s reign of religious power in her…

work of the sisterhoods involved the reform of prostitutes and the reintroduction of reformed women into mainstream society. Critics such as Mary Wilson Carpenter (1991) argue that interaction with these women accounts for both the feminism and homoeroticism of "Goblin Market." Other critics suggest that the poem was meant as a means of cautioning these women about returning to their former ways. Additionally, critics such as Janet Galligani Casey (1991) suggest a more secular interpretation of…

Homosexuality was a term that was created by German psychologist, Karl-Maria Benkert in the late 19th century (Pickett, 2015). Ovid was a Roman poet that focused on various Greek myths for a Roman audience, which included homosexuality, as a part of his major work, Metamorphoses. The idea of same-sex attraction and other types of sexuality were seen in many ancient civilizations, but with no concrete term to describe the relationships. Homosexuality was seen more, and more widely excepted, in…

Pocket Knives and Sympathy: An Analysis of Modernist Male Anxieties Modernism is rife with experimentation and the challenging of norms as a way to experience the new world that is emerging post-war and post-Victorian Era. The majority of modernist authors wrote modernist novels to experiment with new forms and challenge the old ways of the traditional novel. Virginia Woolf experimented with form, but most importantly she used her novels as a platform to challenge the gender system that was in…

Anthony, J, and I chose two still ads from the same cologne line, over a decade apart. The line is “Le Male” by Jean Paul Gaultier, and the two ads that we chose are pictured below. Our task was to analyze the “gayness” of the advertisement, and therefore to also analyze what wasn’t gay about it. To do this, we collectively did research about the history of the content of the ads, the brand and the creator of it, and the models used. Lastly, we analyzed the aesthetics of the ad to pull it all…