Category: Literary Criticism

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The Lesbian Lyre by Jeffrey M. Duban

Jeffrey M. Duban | The Lesbian Lyre | Hailed by Plato as the ‘Tenth Muse’ of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Gr

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The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz

Phyllis M. Betz | The Lesbian Fantastic | ‘This work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other them

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The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith

Patricia Juliana Smith | The Queer Sixties | As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have chart

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Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | Highest Apple | examination of the history of lesbian poetry

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The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature by E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen

E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen | The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature | ‘The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on

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Books & Life by Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen | Books & Life | From Publishers Weekly

In these essays and reviews, Clausen ( The Prosperine Papers ) raises provocative questions–about feminism, lesbianism, ac

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Queer Gothic by George E. Haggerty

George E. Haggerty | Queer Gothic | George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between tr

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Lesbian Erotics by Karla Jay

Karla Jay | Lesbian Erotics | Synopsis

Essays about eroticism in lesbian life by writers such as Elizabeth Meese, Sandy Huss, Colleen Lamos, Anna Livia, edited by Karla Jay.

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Twilight Tales by Melissa Sky

Melissa Sky | Twilight Tales | Lesbian pulp fiction’s tremendous historical and cultural impact has only recently begun to be fully recognized and until now there has been no compre

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The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan

Laura Doan | The Lesbian Postmodern | Review

As an exploration of the relation between the lesbian, conceived within the context of cutting-edge work on gender theory, and postmodernis