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[bandgeek]

So I've been reading about feminist criticism of Hamlet for my Lit Studies class. But what I'm interested in isn't so much the Hamlet stuff itself (although I'm sure we can all ruminate on Ophelia until the cows come home). What I'd really like to know more about is this

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[gobi_rex]

(this is probably going to be very general)

I think a lot depends on the author's skill, perception, experience, POV manipulation. I don't think I'd be able to tell unless it were obviously sexist.

After I read V.Woolf's "A room with a view" I started thinking about how much of what I had read as a child/young adult was disproportionately written from a male POV and how this may have influenced/affected my perception for years to come. And I remember how I became paranoid sometime early in college and started to pay close attention to POV and gender in everything I was reading. I still do, if I remember to (or if the story is interesting enough).

As for m/m slash, everything I've read up to this point is by women (as far as I know), so I don't have anything to compare it to. I've read 'touchy-feely' stories and I've read stories with more reserved interactions. And I don't remember the last time I read sex scenes written by males, either. Actually, I've been making a point to finally read something by DH Lawrence and Henry Miller (well, I don't remember "Lady Chatterley's Lover" well enough), but I always put it off. Feh.

male slash writers

[trepkos]

Check out men_who_slash LJ community if you want to take a gander at some slash written by men.
You can't join but you can watch, read and comment.

Re: male slash writers

[bandgeek]

Ooh, I'll be sure to check that out. Thanks!

Re: male slash writers

[gobi_rex]

Thanks for rec, Trepkos. This is gonna be fun.

[bandgeek]

See? You do have interesting things to say. ;)

I'm thinking that I really need to read A Room with a View, because it's come up quite a bit in and out of class, and I love Woolf to little bits and pieces. And academia has made me paranoid, too ... ever since I was old enough to realize we were allowed to question and criticize authors, I've been trying to poke holes in them. *g*

As for DH Lawrence, one of the feminist essays I read for class had some nasty things to say about him, so I'd be interested to see what his writing is like. I've heard plenty about him, but I've never actually sat down and read him. Seems that way for a lot of authors, really.