Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature

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dc.contributor.advisorMichasiw, Kim Ian
dc.creatorHolmes, Trevor Michael
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-11T16:14:52Z
dc.date.available2014-07-11T16:14:52Z
dc.date.copyright2013-10-25
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:05:37Z
dc.degree.disciplineEnglish
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis project identifies three minor authors in three historical periods, applying deconstructive and queer theory to their writings and to their biographies. The resulting analysis traces gothic effects through other, more familiar texts and figures in order to bring about re-readings that disrupt certain monolithic understandings of literary and sexual identity over time. With a focus on gender transitivity and sexual dissidence, and the insights afforded by queer readings in which queer is framed as a verb, the analysis opens up ways of reading genre through the experimental theories of Deleuze and Guattari. Going beyond identifying major and minor gothic literature, I propose that we understand the literary gothic as a writing machine that produces goth-identified subjects. Tracing concepts like Minor Literature, Rhizome, Becoming-other, the Refrain, and the Body without Organs through fictional and life narratives from Charlotte Dacre, Percy Shelley, Count Eric Stenbock, and Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin), I suggest ways in which my reading of minor figures and their works has implications for how we might re-read works by major authors Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey) and Henry James (“The Jolly Corner”), and works by popular author Anne Rice (with a particular focus on the character Lestat and the later novel Tale of the Body Thief). Similar to the Foucauldian notion of the subject as simultaneously an effect of and a producer of discourse, the turn to Deleuze and Guattari requires a more explicit addressing of agency on the part of authors and readers. A micropolitics of the self through prose narrative is derived, as against a grand narrative of influence, filiation, and static sexual definition.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27582
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSexualityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGothic literatureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGoth subcultureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsQueer theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMinor literatureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDeleuze and Guattarien_US
dc.subject.keywordsAnne Riceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPoppy Z.en_US
dc.subject.keywordsBriteen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBilly Martinen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCount Eric Stenbocken_US
dc.subject.keywordsCharlotte Dacreen_US
dc.subject.keywordsVampire fictionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRhizome theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodimenten_US
dc.subject.keywordsLife narrativesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGenderen_US
dc.titleGoth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literatureen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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