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The gay critic

Title
The gay critic / Hubert Fichte ; translated by Kevin Gavin ; introduction by James W. Jones.
Author
Fichte, Hubert
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1996]

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Additional Authors
Jones, James W., 1952-
Description
xxii, 411 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Hubert Fichte was an active presence in contemporary German letters. "The Gay Critic" offers a microcosm of Fichte's prolific and controversial writings. He uses contemporary points or reference to focus concerns are focused with sexualities and their expression or repression.
Series Statement
The body, in theory
Uniform Title
  • Homosexualität und Literatur. Band 1. English
  • Body, in theory
Alternative Title
Homosexualität und Literatur. Band 1.
Subject
  • Homosexuality and literature
  • AIDS (Disease) in literature
  • Gay people's writings > History and criticism
  • Gays' writings
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
Hubert Fichte warns his readers -- Eleven exaggerations : introduction to a reader -- The bloody man : Sade -- Anyone could be next : on Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salò -- Voodoo bloodbaths -- heroes of mixed religion : remarks on Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Agrippina -- Woe of woes! Remarks on Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Turkish tragedy Ibrahim Bassa -- Revolution as resoration : Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud, ethnologist -- The ewe tribes of Jakob Spieth -- The land of laughter : ploemical remarks on the Tristes tropiques of Claude Lévi- Strauss -- The semblance of a cure : De instauranda Aethiopum salute by Pater Alonso de Sandoval, Society of Jesus, 1627 -- My friend Herodotus -- Excursus : the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Benin : the description of African and Afro-American rites in Herodotus -- A petrified magic city : reflections on the popular edition of the monographs of Paul Wunderlich, edited by Jens Christian Jensen -- The objective and the subjective author : remarks on Henry James's Washington Square.
ISBN
  • 0472105019
  • 9780472105014
  • 0472083406
  • 9780472083404
LCCN
95049087
OCLC
  • ocm33667324
  • 33667324
  • SCSB-9389172
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library