This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.
This collection of twenty-three essays sets its sights on the points of queerness, marginality, and alterity already present within the German canon and introduces further difference and deviation in the form of openly gay Germanliterature in order to promote the always-ongoing shift in cultural representation. Queering the Canon provides new analyses, from queer perspectives, of texts by authors whose names are familiar to canonical lists, including Goethe, Schiller, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Reinig, and Elfriede Jelinek. It also makes welcome room for discussions of literary works that have seldom received scholarly attention.
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[ ...] deserves a place on every German scholar's bookshelf as a suggestion and a beacon. GERMAN QUARTERLY 'Lorey and Plew's fine collection must be applauded for its diversity of contributions. It operates on several levels, demonstrating the range of debates that accompany gay and lesbian studies and how these new methodologies can apply to German literature and film.' SEMINAR 'Unfamiliar texts on (counter)-cultural topics are introduced to a wider readership. This alone should ensure that the book is relevant to a range of needs and should have an expansive influence....' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW 'A thought-provoking and useful addition to library collections of German and gay literature.' MONATSHEFTE 'Lorey and Plews have assembled an intriguing and stimulating array of research.... A thought-provoking volume that provides groundbreaking research. * INTERNATIONAL FICTION REVIEW *
Acknowledgments CHRISTOPH LOREY JOHN L. PLEWS Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture: An Introduction to Queering the Canon xiii Queering German History and Thought 1(88) HOLGER A. PAUSCH Queer Theory: History, Status, Trends, and Problems 1(19) ANGELA TAEGER Homosexual Love Between Degeneration of Human Material and Love of Mankind: Demographical Perspectives on Homosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Germany 20(16) MARTIN SCHERZINGER NEVILLE HOAD A/Symmetrical Reading of Inversion in Fin-de-Siecle Music, Musicology, and Sexology 36(37) EVELYN ANNUB in collaboration with ROBERT SCHMIDT The Butler Boom: Queer Theorys Impact on German Womens/Gender Studies 73(16) Queering German Literature 89(222) HELMUT BRALL Reflections of Homosexuality in Medieval Poetry and Chronicles 89(17) MARTIN BLUM Queer Desires and the Middle High German Comic Tale: Dietrich von der Glezzes Der Borte 106(20) DAVID G. JOHN Margarete von Parma in Goethes Egmont: Text and Performance 126(16) SILKE R. FALKNER Love only succors/Those who can love: Mephistos Desiring Gaze in Goethes Faust 142(17) ROBERT TOBIN Thomas Manns Queer Schiller 159(22) HARRY OOSTERHUIS The Dubious Magic of Male Beauty: Politics and Homoeroticism in the Lives and Works of Thomas and Klaus Mann 181(26) NANCY P. NENNO Bildung and Desire: Anna Elisabet Weirauchs Der Skorpion 207(15) KARIN BAUER That Obscure Object of Desire: Fantasy and Disaster in Ingeborg Bachmanns A Step Towards Gomorrah 222(12) CATHRIN WINKELMANN Christa Reinigs Lesbian Warriors: One Sunday During the War of the Genders 234(14) RALPH J. POOLE Ich gebare nicht. Ich begehre dich: The Lesbian Vampire as Mother/Artist in Elfriede Jelinek 248(24) AMANDA L. MITCHELL Der Kitzel der bosen Gedanken: Representations of Lesbian Pornography in Regina Nosslers Strafe Muss Sein 272(21) DENIS M. SWEET Renegade Lit: Gay Writing at the End of Socialist East Germany 293(18) Queering German Culture 311(123) LES WRIGHT The Genre Cycle of German Gay Coming-Out Films, 1970-1994 311(29) JAMES W. JONES History and Homosexuality in Frank Ripplohs Taxi to the Toilet 340(10) CARYL FLINN Camp, Music, and the Production of History: Anita and Rosa von Praunheim 350(33) SUNKA SIMON Out of Hollywod: Monika Treuts Virgin Machine and Percy Adlons Bagdad Cafe 383(20) UTE LISCHKE-MCNAB Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: The Use of Music as a Collateral Marketing Device in Maybe ... Maybe Not 403(17) PIET DEFRAEYE Performances of Masculinity in Attila Richard Lukacss E-Werk 420(14) WORKS CITED 434(38) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 472(3) INDEX 475
CHRISTOPH LOREY is a professor of German at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. JOHN PLEWS teaches at the University of Alberta.
