Playing the Reader : The Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Sexuality and Literature
ISBN-10
0820444081
ISBN-13
9780820444086
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 4th, 2000
Print length
157 Pages
Weight
346 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Classical textsLiterary studies: generalGender studies: women
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Metafictional texts frequently construct both their narrators and readers as male. The relationship between the narrator and reader within the novel is often dismissed, but in many cases it is the most intimate relationship in the novel. Drawing from such disparate frameworks as queer theory, reader theory, and game theory, this work argues that within specific metafictional novels, a strong homoerotic metanarrative exists despite the heterosexual relationships at the narrative level. The texts that this work addresses are Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, Milorad Pavic’s Dictionary of the Khazars and Landscape Painted with Tea, and Carlos Fuentes’ Christopher Unborn.
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