98 research outputs found

    Late style and speaking out: J A Symonds's In the Key of Blue

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    This article examines In the Key of Blue (1893)—an essay collection by John Addington Symonds—as a case study in queer public utterance during the early 1890s. Viewed through the critical lens of late style, as theorised by Edward Said, the evolution of this project, from compilation through to reader reception, reveals Symonds's determination to “speak out” on the subject of homosexuality. Paradoxically, In the Key of Blue was thus a timely and untimely work: it belonged to a brief period of increased visibility and expressiveness when dealing with male same-sex desire, spearheaded by a younger generation of Decadent writers, but it also cut against the grain of nineteenth-century social taboo and legal repression. Symonds's essay collection brought together new and previously unpublished work with examples of his writing for the periodical press. These new combinations, appearing together for the first time, served to facilitate new readings and new inferences, bringing homosexual themes to the fore. This article traces the dialogic structure of In the Key of Blue , its strategies for articulating homosexual desire, and examines the response of reviewers, from the hostile to celebratory

    Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi

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    This paper explores the ambivalent feelings towards the Government of India produced in one of the government’s own employees. In establishing the Delhi Improvement Trust in the 1930s, Arthur Parke Hume had to battle against governmental cost cutting in an attempt to secure the rehousing of slum evictees. The refusal of the government to accept this welfarist commitment to investment led to the stalling of the improvement projects and great emotional disquiet for Hume. This is traced through his personal correspondence with his parents. In interweaving these insights with the imperial archive, three biographical approaches are adopted. A traditional chronology is used to order the events, an analytical approach is used to outline the discursive regularities of Hume’s observations, and a genealogical approach is used to suggest the influences on Hume’s writings and the broader governmental rationalities that he had to negotiate

    Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style. From Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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    NWO276-30-009Classics and Classical Civilizatio

    Sinai

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    Dedication:Pagination: P327-356Text Genre:Pros

    South Porch of Mosque and Summer Pulpit, Jerusalem.

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    Caption: "South Porch of Mosque and Summer Pulpit, Jerusalem."Open area by mosque. Painting

    Souk Silah, the Armourers' Bazaar, Cairo.

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    Caption: "Souk Selal, The Armourers' Bazaar, Cairo."A few merchants on a street; dome and minaret in background. Painting

    Sharia el Kirabiyeh or Street of the Water-Carriers, Cairo.

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    Caption: "Sharia-El-Kerabiyeh, Or Street of the Water Carriers, Cairo."Men in blue robes sitting outside of shops. . Painting

    The Heart Of The City: Towards The Humanisation Of Urban Life

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    A Street near El Gamaliyeh.

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    Caption: "A Street near El Gamaliyeh."A street scene. Painting
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