I’ve long held that great literature impacts history harder than lesser literature. I trace the evolution of my ideas in today’s post.
Tag Archives: queer theory
Lit and Life: My Intellectual Trajectory
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“Queer and Marxist Readings of Beowulf”
A Buzzfeed post uses as proof of English majors’ superiority the fact that they can execute queer and Marxist interpretations of “Beowulf.” We explore what such interpretations would entail.
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