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Sullivan, Margaret E.

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A religion from the outside: The modernist queer subject and religious discourse.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A religion from the outside: The modernist queer subject and religious discourse./
Author:	Sullivan, Margaret E.
Description:	220 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-05, Section: A, page: 1780.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-05A.
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3494282
ISBN:	9781267157256

A religion from the outside: The modernist queer subject and religious discourse.
Sullivan, Margaret E.

A religion from the outside: The modernist queer subject and religious discourse. - 220 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-05, Section: A, page: 1780.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 2011.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation focuses on British modernist literature and the queer subject's destabilization of longstanding religious tropes. I argue that the queer subjects in texts by Woolf, Barnes and Townsend Warner distort inherited religious texts and traditions from a place inside Christianity's discursive boundaries. The effect of such narrative positionings is that these queer subjects are engaged in the process of Christianity's deconstruction; because these marginalized subjects inhabit Christian narrative tradition from a place inside Christianity's shaping stories, they reveal that subjectivity, narrative tradition, and religious history are all put into question.

ISBN: 9781267157256Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

A religion from the outside: The modernist queer subject and religious discourse.
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520 $a My first chapter establishes the theoretical contexts for such deconstructions of inside and outside. I connect Foucault's claim that modern sexuality is inseparable from Sadeian transgression with both Blanchot's non-binary Outside and Derrida's experience of the aporia. Chapter Two demonstrates that two female characters from Woolf's The Waves---Rhoda and the lady writing at Elvedon---reconfigure the story of the Garden. The silent lady, forever writing her story of creation, is trapped in Eden, while the lesbian, mystical Rhoda appropriates the male-identified voice of Scripture's God-the-Father. Chapter Three argues that Timothy Fortune, the queer main character from Townsend Warner' Mr. Fortune's Maggot demonstrates a deconstructed religious positioning, one uncontained by inherited doctrinal precepts. Chapter Four asserts that when Miranda, the lesbian main character from Barnes' The Antiphon, seizes the lead in a monastically structured, antiphonal chant, and dies as a result, the effect is that the legacy of religious tradition defends its primacy by doing violence to the queer usurper. In concluding the Barnes' chapter, I highlight the violent deaths of Miranda and Rhoda. I assert that Derridean autoimmunity, in which a normative inside violently expels a perceived outsider, illumines their erasure.
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