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Introduction

2012

Gender Studies Queer Theories English LiteratureSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Sex, Gender And Desire in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion"

2012

Jeanette Winterson contemporary British writing gender studies queer theoriesSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Queer Crossings. Teories, Bodies, Texts

2012

queer theories and practises subjectivity gender performativity homophobia masquerade cross-dressing textual analysisSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000

2008

Since the publication of her first novel, Jeanette Winterson has been acclaimed as one of the most promising writers on the English postmodern literary scene. This study takes into consideration seven works, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) to The PowerBook (2000) in which Winterson codifies bodies as culturally constructed signs which can be re-signified and transformed. The strategies she adopts to remodel the body reveal a narrative itinerary that goes from the assertion of the lesbian body of the protagonist in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to the virtual bodies of the interactive world in The PowerBook. Winterson works out new body paradigms to subvert the effects of social …

studies of gender and sexualitycontemporary prose writingqueer theories.English literatureJeanette Winterson
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