Image By User:A,Ocram – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44833045 ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ – Bluets by Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson, in her book Bluets (2009), singles out one colour, blue, for special attention, however, it becomes clear very quickly that no colour can exist…
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Sexuality in Emily Dickinson’s Poems 14 & 764
Emily Dickinson, rather than constructing a singularly focused representation of sexuality, portrays a continuum of manifestations of sexual desire in her poetry. In ‘One Sister have I in our house, Poem 14’ and ‘My Life had stood – A Loaded Gun, Poem 764’ we can see these desires distinctly differ, not only by the poetic…
Damning Eroticism in Psycho and Turn of the Screw
Eroticism and the politics of sexuality haunt the Gothic style. Analyse the narrative function of sexuality and the erotic in your chosen texts. Damning Eroticism in Psycho and Turn of the Screw Morgan Pinder When the gothic meets the erotic the audience finds themselves in uncomfortable grey areas that subvert sexual norms and create a…
MK Pinder Writes 