Michael Moon: 39 books
A Small Boy and Others
Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1998
In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav...
by Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The Balloon Man may walk you across the bridge.
The intent is to ignite the universal symbolism of our collective
consciousness. Australian Dreamtime Poet - Michael Moon
delivers an open genre and style that crosses borders.
The ebb and flow of this suite is intended to
wake you into a new...
by Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in astonishing drawings and watercolors....
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
by Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In the footsteps of Coelhos Alchemist and Hesses Siddhartha, The Plateau Of Remembrance presents a new timeless journey. The sequel to The Lost Ego With Five Outback Myths, it illustrates the nocturnal visionary pen of poet and artist Michael Moon. In a long tradition of literary exploration, Moon...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...
Arabian Nights
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
A Queer Film Classic on 1974’s Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975.Already internationally distinguished as a poet, novelist, and outspoken social critic of the postwar period, Pasolini turned to...
Never Say I
Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
The Misfit of the Family
Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays...
by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...