sometimes, studying can be fun
'In articulating the aesthetic of the sublime the implicitly male subject traditionally posited by Western culture vicariously experiences the "female" subject position. He knows what it is to be "filled" by a great, hardly known, and threatening power, an experience that echoes through every dimension of this "speaking subject".'
Anne Williams, The Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic
You know you have read too much slash when the idea of a male subject being "filled" makes you think of cocks and dildos.
Very distracting.
Although, now I'm pondering on the significance and the implications of using the term '"female" subject position'. Doesn't this imply that only a female can be filled? I get what she's saying - traditionally (in Western culture) is is the female that is filled, and the book very nicely plays with traditional notions - but it still makes me ponder.
Which is also very distracting. Not much studying getting done here.
Anne Williams, The Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic
You know you have read too much slash when the idea of a male subject being "filled" makes you think of cocks and dildos.
Very distracting.
Although, now I'm pondering on the significance and the implications of using the term '"female" subject position'. Doesn't this imply that only a female can be filled? I get what she's saying - traditionally (in Western culture) is is the female that is filled, and the book very nicely plays with traditional notions - but it still makes me ponder.
Which is also very distracting. Not much studying getting done here.