*announcement*

[thaliestra]

soooo, i've been swamped with school and have not yet mailed out cards or packages to people...sorry!! I should be able to get things out by Monday, I believe.

This is your last call to send me your addy if you want something from me & I don't already have your snailmail!!! doffysamson this means you

Comments

[yarinaosu]

I can give you a few sources for "queer" interpretation of Frankenstein, but most are the feminine/lesbian monster, as is the onyl "queer" interpretation of it out there. However, this goes against exactly what Mary and her mother wrote about and is a faulty interpretation (as the Monster represents Nature, not a woman, nor a man, but the result of trying to conquer and "marry" nature and become a God of Intellect, ala Mary's father, Godwin).

[thaliestra]

yes, please give me citations, thank you!!!

[yarinaosu]

But you have to remember that these works are faulty.

I would like to know what purpose (for a paper) and what exactly are you looking for (as your hero did not write just on lesbianism, but only kept it to a minor degree). If you want the lesbian interpretation, I must reiterate the above problem with such.

[thaliestra]

I'm working on an article on Frankenstein as the antecedent for queer cyberpunk literature & my editor said i need more references other than the Halberstam for footnotes

[yarinaosu]

Um...

wow...

If anything, the only person from the 19th century even close to being such an antecedent would be Oscar Wilde. Even the "lesbian" interpretations don't discuss anything except for masculine hatred against female liberation.

The book is antifemale, if anything. There is no societal interpretation that women are not abused that exists within Frankenstein, let alone an empowered female.

Furthermore, it falls within the Romantics, and the Victorian and Modernist radically changed the philosophical view before the Post Modernism that allowed for queer cyberpunk to even exist.

[thaliestra]

you know, if you aren't just going to give me the citations, why are you bothering to tell me that you will & then not do it?

further, there is NO SUCH THING AS POSTMODERNISM. 'we' are still very much in the modern period. as for various readings of Frankenstein & its relationship to Frankenstein, there is room for many kinds of interpretations, yours is simply one of many.

thank you for wasting my time, rather than simply giving me the citations -- all i needed were some footnotes.

[yarinaosu]

Wow, so you know, the group that you listed were Post Modernist.

Furthermore, the group you listed did not exist anymore. They died out in 93.