Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ575043
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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"The Responsibilities of the Critic": F. O. Matthiessen's Homosexual Palimpsest.
Morris, Charles E., III
Quarterly Journal of Speech, v84 n3 p261-82 Aug 1998
Contributes to scholarship on American Studies, Literary Criticism, and Gay Historical Criticism by examining F. O. Matthiessen's "American Renaissance." Argues that criticism of the work misses its homosexual double-consciousness: a resistive form of "passing" labeled "homosexual palimpsest" that manifests itself in Matthiessen's exploration of Herman Melville. Discusses how Matthiessen's criticism offers insights into homosexual resistance. (SR)
Descriptors: American Studies, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Literary Criticism, United States Literature
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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