Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio: Modernist Playwrights challenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach Yeats and D'Annunzio through a queer lens because of their controversial affiliations with fascism and elitism, their heterosexuality and their venerated canonical status. This book provides the first fully theorised queer and comparative reading of Yeats's and D'Annunzio's drama. It offers the novel contention that due to their increasing involvement in queer and feminist subcultures, their plays feature feelings that are associated with queer historiography and generate ideas that began to be theorised by queer studies more than half a century after the composition of the plays. Moreover, it uncovers an alert, subversive and often coded social commentary in eight key dramatic texts by each playwright and at the same time highlights the thus far neglected commonalities between the plays and the queer historical as well as cultural contexts of these two prominent modernists.
| ISBN: | 9783031420702 |
| Publication date: | 11th December 2024 |
| Author: | Zsuzsanna Balázs |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 258 pages |
| Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Gender studies, gender groups Theatre studies History of Performing Arts Plays, playscripts |
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio: Modernist Playwrights challenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach Yeats and D'Annunzio through a queer lens because of their controversial affiliations with fascism and elitism, their heterosexuality and their venerated canonical status. This book provides the first fully theorised queer and comparative reading of Yeats's and D'Annunzio's drama. It offers the novel contention that due to their increasing involvement in queer and feminist subcultures, their plays feature feelings that are associated with queer historiography and generate ideas that began to be theorised by queer studies more than half a century after the composition of the plays. Moreover, it uncovers an alert, subversive and often coded social commentary in eight key dramatic texts by each playwright and at the same time highlights the thus far neglected commonalities between the plays and the queer historical as well as cultural contexts of these two prominent modernists.
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Theatre studies, History of Performing Arts, Plays, playscripts
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio is available in Paperback
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio was written by Zsuzsanna Balázs and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio has 258 pages
Yes it is part of New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature series
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