Ceara, I wanted to correct something I must have implied about Thomas/heterosexuality/norminative. You used the terms normal and abnormal in response to my post. Those terms are variables, so as I understand it, they would not apply to a description of heterosexuality or homosexuality. Different societies, cultures, and groups have different ( Read more... )

To my friends to whom I was never able to make contact since 4:30 P.M. I was on Live Journal; somehow got a message to log onto chatroom from Charity. I went to Educator and logged on chatroom, logged in but never got a response. I just stayed on Educator making responses to comments and posts for the past three hours. I still don't know how to ( Read more... )

Garber - Religious Habits - Chapter 9 ( Read more... )

The wound in Adonis' groin in Ovid and Shakespeare has erotic symbolism. In Neoplatonism "the kiss symbolized an exchange of souls, as completion of a desired union" (88). Shakespeare's mixing of the erotic with distruction and death has great significance according to Stanivukovic ( Read more... )

Thanks for summarizing this chapter so well. Sometimes I get too caught up in the detail so this concise rendition helps ( Read more... )

I am inclined to interpret readings psychologically, and I tend to think in Freudian terms and interpretations. It was, therefore, not a challenge to ascertain the "homosexual" roles of the three main characters. I am attempting to learn the application to queer theory and its interpretation, not however, with any degree of ease ( Read more... )

This is a test.