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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku Homosexuality in the Heterotopia: Analysing Homoerotic Desire in James, Tartt and Waugh
Námsstig: 
  • Bakkalár
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Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    This thesis explores how homosocial, homoerotic, and homosexual male relationships are connected to Michel Foucault's heterotopia in the novels Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and Roderick Hudson by Henry James. Notably, the essay addresses the paradoxical nature of heterotopia in how it both inverts the expectations of society and reflects them. The first part of the essay argues that it is a kind of wonderland, or a space of sexual freedom, plenitude, and homosexual bliss. The second part focuses on heterotopia as a space of sexual decadence and transgression. These two sections feature the heterotopic spaces of the country house, the university, and Italy, focusing on what these spaces have in common, what makes them heterotopic, and how they differ in terms of the cultural contexts they embody, namely in terms of heritage, catholicism, pedagogy and the pastoral. The third section then explores what happens when characters leave the heterotopia and their attempts to recreate it through the figure of the female relative of the male love interest. The woman is thus analysed as a space that simulates the heterotopia and can also be seen as a heterotopia in her own right. The doctrine of sympathy is used to further explore how the woman becomes a displacement of desire as well as how themes of incest that feature in all three novels are both explored and refuted. The essay also focuses on the mutual relationship between heterotopia and society, how it serves society by keeping othering confined within a certain space, and how society willingly ignores what goes on within the heterotopia. This idea is further developed through Pierre Bourdieu's ideas on the doxa, the orthodoxy and the heterodoxy, Eve Sedgwick's closet, the term denial, and how they all connect to Queer theory.

Samþykkt: 
  • 3.5.2023
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/43772


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