Closet WritingGay Reading Paper The Case of Melvilles Pierre by James Creech

Name: Closet WritingGay Reading Paper The Case of Melvilles Pierre by James Creech
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Closet Writing/Gay ReadingThe Case of Melville's Pierre\nAuthor(s): James Creech\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226120225, 978-0226120225\nSynopsis\nOne of the most urgent tasks for gay studies today, James Creech argues, is the retrieval of a repressed, \""closeted\"" literary heritage. But contradictions and problems cloud even the most basic theoretical questions: What does a lesbian or gay reading of a literary text require or presume? Can we talk about a homosexual writer expressing him- or herself before the invention of \""homosexuality\""? Was it possible for a writer like Herman Melville, for example, to create literary works linked to his own prohibited eros? In this book, Creech shows how a literary critic can be receptive to implicit and closeted sexual content. Advocating a tactic of identification and projection in literary analysis, he lends renewed currency to the kind of \"".