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Sextuality
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13 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Stephen Guy-Bray talks about sexuality, a concept that brings together the the use of sexual metaphors in the description of textual production and the erotics that inhere in reading praxes. Among other things, this concept is a critique of the use of popular heteronormative metaphors of reproduction to describe the creation of literature.
Stephen Guy-Bray is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and poetics. He has just finished a monograph on line endings in Renaissance poetry.
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Stephen Guy-Bray is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and poetics. He has just finished a monograph on line endings in Renaissance poetry.
Image: © 2021 Saronik Bosu
Music used in promotional material: ‘The Gold Lining’ by Broke For Free
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Released:
Jun 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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