Spring Fever PANIC! Reading: Sexuality and Resistance as Living Literature Our philosophical and historical discussion of sexuality in American culture has been informed by renowned and canonized fiction, as well as scientific contexts and personal documents. This PANIC! reading project is a blend of theories, realities, fictions, and confessions in a theatrical, real-time, literary […]
Hello Class, I’m reposting this in case anyone is interested in attending the reading I will be recording for my final project. The reading is this Wednesday at 8 PM. Each reader will read a ten minute erotica piece, and series host Charlie Vasquez will make many exciting literary announcements. Please feel free to e-mail […]
Response to Angels in America “Roy: Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels, that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that” (Millennium Approaches, Act 1, […]
The range of psychoses related in Lolita is relentless. The entire text could be a document in Peiss’s textbook, and wading through these murky waters becomes an exercise in suspicion. Humbert’s mixture of paranoia and recklessness makes me root for his success in keeping his and Lo’s anonymiy despite my increasing disgust and fury with […]
The Magic in the Forest (or in the Trees) Lolita is disturbing – when I actually step back and think about it: A man who falls deeply, madly in love with a young girl, never really notices that at times she is unwilling to stay with him, and objectifies her, never troubling to learn about […]
“Keep away from whores and all loose women. KEEP AWAY FROM WHORES!” said a pamphlet given out to soldiers during World War I. This pamphlet was ancillary to a pro-kit that was also distributed in order to prevent further outbreaks of venereal diseases. It contained a tube of ointment, a cloth with soap, a cleansing […]
