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Literary Criticism

Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder

December 1, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Jane McIntosh Snyder | Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho | This is the first book to examine Sappho’s poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sapp

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Sappho is Burning by Page DuBois

October 25, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Page DuBois | Sappho is Burning | To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as spe

Categories Literary Criticism, Literary History

(Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth Meese

April 26, 2025September 8, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Elizabeth Meese | (Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing | What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the na

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Pronoun Envy by Anna Livia

August 19, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Anna Livia | Pronoun Envy | Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic ‘he,’ has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the la

Categories Literary Criticism

With Her Machete In Her Hand by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

December 6, 2022August 16, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete In Her Hand | I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel’s interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors …now extending

Categories Chicana/Latina Interest, Literary Criticism

After Sex? by Janet Halley; Andrew Parker

June 6, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Janet Halley; Andrew Parker | After Sex? | 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 s

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Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle

April 17, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Terry Castle | Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall | At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward’s writing is play

Categories Autobiography/Biography, Literary Criticism, Literary History

With Her Machete in Her Hand by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

December 6, 2022January 21, 2011 by NorthShore Noir Press

Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete in Her Hand | With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria An

Categories Chicana/Latina Interest, Literary Criticism

Un/Popular Culture by Kathleen Martindale

December 23, 2010 by NorthShore Noir Press

Kathleen Martindale | Un/Popular Culture | Theorizing lesbian, Kathleen Martindale writes, is like embarking on terra incognita. In this book, Martindale offers her lucidly written analysis as

Categories Literary Criticism

Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita

November 24, 2010 by NorthShore Noir Press

Ruth Vanita | Sappho and the Virgin Mary | In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of l

Categories Lesbian Studies, Literary Criticism
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