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	English 571: Hogg on Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chloe Hogg on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "The Beast in the Closet"
		Sedgwick begins with a brief historical background, identifying the emergence of "the beginnings of a crystallized male homosexual role and male homosexual culture" (p.184) as occurring in England before the end of the eighteenth century.
		Sedgwick turns to literary works, most notably those of Thakeray and James, to illustrate the concept of male homosexual panic through the new "character taxonomy" of the bachelor.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~jenglish/Courses/hogg2.html (415 words)

	Amazon.com: A Dialogue on Love: Books: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The interlocutors are Sedgwick and her therapist; the dialogue consists of Sedgwick's retelling of therapeutic interactions, excerpts from her therapist's notes, and numerous mediating haiku glosses.
		Sedgwick avoids the shallowness of both abstract clinical case studies and of uncritical gushes from the contemporary 'culture of therapy'.
		Sedgwick is famous (or infamous, depending on your politics) for her ground-breaking work in literary and cultural theory, especially her role in forging the vital and influential field of Queer Studies.
	www.amazon.com /Dialogue-Love-Eve-Kosofsky-Sedgwick/dp/0807029238 (1976 words)

	village voice > books > A Dialogue on Love: Sedgwick haibuns. by David Kurnick
		Queer theory, with which Sedgwick's name has become near synonymous since the publication in 1990 of Epistemology of the Closet, is characterized by its critics as therapy conducted in print, a forum for self-indulgent academics to ruminate publicly on their unhappy childhoods and personal sexual histories.
		Sedgwick has written about herself before, and about the anomaly of her status as a gay studies guru who is also heterosexual and married.
		As Sedgwick puts it, the haiku are "the fat, buttery condensations and inky dribbles of the mind's laden brush." They capture precisely the way we attach a sense of ceremony to certain phrases, italicizing, savoring or stumbling over the words as we arrive at them.
	www.villagevoice.com /arts/9931/kurnick.shtml (843 words)

	How to Avoid Being Paranoid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sedgwick seeks ways to ensure that the work of critics and educators always involves a depth of commitment and feeling and not the ritual gestures of a complacent vocation.
		Sedgwick now seeks `ways around the topos of depth or hiddenness, typically followed by a drama of exposure, that has been such a staple of critical work of the past four decades' (8).
		Sedgwick has tried to provide the conditions for `a mind receptive to thoughts, able to nurture and connect them, and susceptible to happiness in their entertainment' (1).
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/criticalecologies/beside (2342 words)

	Here I GO
		As Eve Sedgwick quotes, her work is "being strongly marked by a queer politics that is at once antiseparatist and antiassimilationist; by a methodology that draws on deconstruction among other techniques, and by writerly experimentation." After writing several books she now works at CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
		While Eve Sedgwick believes that gender is merely a role we play and is not really a social constraint like many think, Bridget sure does live up to her female role as if it is a social constaint.
		Sedgwick believes that homophobia is a way too common phenomenon in men and is joyish to see a proud homosexual human.
	www.unc.edu /~ebailey/theorist.html (622 words)

	Queer Theory in Relation to Epistemology of the Closet
		In the compilation, author Sedgwick reveals that several sexual contradictions yield modern misunderstanding, language is a relevant force behind sexuality, and labeled speech acts are ultimately the proof of the nature of one’s sexuality.
		Sedgwick is a queer theorist in the tradition of Derrida, Focault, and Butler.
		Sedgwick’s argument is important in seeking the roots of the modern homo/heterosexual dichotomy.
	chelm.freeyellow.com /queer_theory.html (788 words)

	A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Her chosen medium is a kind of "texture book" in which diary entries are interwoven with haiku, excerpts from her therapist's notes, and threads of dialogue between therapist and patient.
		This absence of any meaningful connection between Sedgwick's work on gay studies and her own sexuality is never really examined in the book, and it only makes her erotic revelations all the more puzzling.
		Sedgwick's style is as ostentatious as her confessionalism.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1999fall/sedgwick.shtml (433 words)

	Amazon.com: Epistemology of the Closet (Centennial Books): Books: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Her idiom may be said to consist of a psychedelic lexicon ("phosphorescent romantic relations," "a choreography of breathless farce," "astrologically lush plurality of its overlapping taxonomies of physical zones") combined with a syntax that is often tortuous and perplexing.
		One of Sedgwick's worst vices more generally as an expositor of ideas is the frequent substitution of catalogue for patient interpretation and analysis (at times her catalogues run the length of miniature paragraphs).
		Sedgwick's main argument is as follows: she believes that homosexuality - male and lesbian - tends to be represented in both society and in literature as though it were an unstable, even deviant or perverse alternative to the fixed norm of heterosexuality.
	www.amazon.com /Epistemology-Closet-Centennial-Kosofsky-Sedgwick/dp/0520078748 (3020 words)

	Male Homosocial Desire in Thomas Hardy
		Eve Sedgwick defines homosocial as “social bonds between persons of the same sex,” and she defines desire as “the affective or social force, the glue.
		Sedgwick brings up another important point when she says the female continuum functions very differently from the male continuum.
		Sedgwick agrees with Rene Girard that the bonds between the men are at least as important, and probably more so, than the bonds between the men and the women (21).
	www.csub.edu /~acaetano/mgen.htm (541 words)

	Cris Mayo - Performance Anxiety: Sexuality and School Controversy
		These debates underscore Sedgwick's observation that homosexuality is inextricably tied to the meaning of heterosexuality, that through their binary relation each is constituted in contrast to the other.
		Sedgwick contends that the closet is the site of origin of unstable binaries beyond those of hetero/homo.
		While he and Sedgwick point to the ways that homosexuality and other sexualities emerge even when under prohibition, the point is not to make the closet an object of nostalgia or to suggest that all prohibition will be its own undoing and that is all we need to know.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-yearbook/96_docs/mayo.html (4308 words)

	Maureen Ford - Opening the Closet Door: Sexualities Education and "Active Ignorance"
		Both of these concerns are of interest to philosophers of education, the former on the basis of its analysis of anti-homophobic curricula, and the latter on the basis of its potential to analyze the construction of "open secrets" or, synonymously, "active ignorance," within philosophy of education discourse.
		Sedgwick indicates that both perspectives can be seen in most accounts of sexuality since the nineteenth century.
		Sedgwick's analysis of juridical double binds, in which various jurists cite contradictory perspectives in the same or related rulings, seems to suggest strongly that when conservatives utilize universalizing discourse, they feel confident in their ability to do so without undermining the credibility of minoritizing positions they might also want to take.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /eps/PES-Yearbook/96_docs/ford.html (1379 words)

	Alexis Garcia Paper2
		The "erotic" comes into play because of a study Sedgwick refers to by Rene Girard, in which he points out "that the bonds of ‘rivalry’ and ‘love,’ differently as they are experienced, are in many cases equally powerful and in many senses equivalent" (21).
		To strengthen her point, she points to a study by Levi-Strauss to conclude that the "normative man uses a woman as a ‘conduit of a relationship’ in which the true partner is a man" (26).
		Sedgwick quickly points out that the use of "homosexuality" here does not represent sex between men but a means of establishing the power in society, obviously in a patriarchal sense.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/mwollaeger/AGarciaPaper2.htm (3297 words)

	mimetic desire
		The concept of homosocial desire alludes linguistically to homosexual practices, but Sedgwick warns that it should not be thought of as synonymous with them; homosexual behavior is but one position along the continuum of social practices that a theory of homosocial desire seeks to situate.
		As Sedgwick notes, the maintenance of a patriarchy is dependent upon heterosexuality; it is not, however, dependent upon heterosexism (or what we commonly call homophobia), as her example of early Grecian society shows.
		Sedgwick identifies the strategies of homosocial desire as "erotic triangles," relationships in which there is rivalry between two active members (often, but not exclusively, two males) for the attentions and/or affections of a "beloved" third.
	people.whitman.edu /~dipasqtm/mimetic.htm (903 words)

	The reeducation of a queer theorist - Salon
		It was in these heady, body-fixated years that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick came of age as the queen of queer theory.
		In other ways, however, Sedgwick was also a living example of the paradox that the new theoreticians of sex were grappling with.
		Sedgwick's new book, "A Dialogue on Love," further explores the complex relationship between theory and lived experience.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/it/1999/09/27/sedgwick/?pn=1 (552 words)

	Transatlantic 1790s: Bibliography
		Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick divides her novel (which was originally a doctoral thesis) into four chapters.
		Sedgwick examines themes that pervade Gothic literature, such as "the sudden, mysterious, seemingly arbitrary, but massive inaccessibility of those things that should normally be most accessible" (13) a level above their representations.
		She examines motifs such as the "unspeakable," narrative difficulties in the linear progression of the story and conflation of the internal as archetypically Gothic.
	www.math.grin.edu /1790s/Bibliography/fullbk.php?source_id=1038 (200 words)

	lucretia's aunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eve Sedgwick's criticism of Girard's triangular offers an approach different from that of Kristeva, who suggests the shortcomings of this model.
		Sedgwick combats the constraints of the paternal order through a revision of the Girardian model's treatment of women.
		From Sedgwick it is evident that one must collapse such a distinction before the reality of power relations within a patriarchal structure can be effectively addressed.
	projects.vassar.edu /~lucretia/Christian.html (2620 words)

	baker
		Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's epistemology of the closet, mapped onto the politics of the contemporary nation, offers, to my mind, a subtle instrument for making sense of places such as Hawai'i.
		Some of these strategies are those employed by sovereignty activists themselves, who wish to constitute their people as a recognized political entity--call it a nation--and who are entering into the available regimes and taking up the accepted nomenclatures in order to do so.
		Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot's The Nun," Tendencies (Durham, N.C., 1993), p.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v23/v23n3.baker.html (797 words)

	Sedgwick Society Newsletter - Teaching Hope to Postmoderns
		That, we decided, is exactly what, among other things, Sedgwick was up to, disseminating to her readers the hermeneutic competence, interpretive skills, and Foucauldian power-knowledge that had formerly been reserved for her own class.
		Like her characters, Sedgwick's readers are becoming more perceptive, more open to surprise, and better at making sense of the surprises.
		Since freedom and power derive not from the absence of convention but from the multiplicity of convention, it makes sense that Esther, that czarina of convention, would make the unconventional choice, that she would, like Sedgwick, choose dissemination over a narrow focus and not "Give to a party what was meant for mankind" (350).
	www.salemstate.edu /imc/sedgwick/hope.html (1573 words)

	Handout on Queer Theory: Eve Sedgwick
		NOTE: Much of this piece is devoted to the exposition of seven axioms, statements in which Sedgwick explores relations between queer studies and women's studies, lesbian identities and gay male identities, essentialist and constructivist assumptions about nature and nurture, and so on.
		In her second paragraph, Sedgwick insists on the "internal incoherence and mutual contradiction" of "commonsense views" (i.e., homophobic views) of human sexuality (1).
		Throughout this introduction, Sedgwick refers to the debate between "essentialist" and "constructivist" views of homosexual identity or "definition." How are these views related to the "nature versus nurture debate" discussed in her fourth axiom?
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/english/courses/60A/handouts/queer2.html (931 words)

	The CUNY News Wire » Blog Archive » Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Elected to American Philosophical Society
		Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the country.
		At this time last year, Sedgwick was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, also considered one of the highest honors in the United States.
		One of the pioneers of gay and lesbian studies and queer theory, Sedgwick uses scholarship and lyrical prose to explore the widespread effects of homosocial, homosexual, and homophobic currents in Western culture.
	www1.cuny.edu /forum/?p=687 (479 words)

	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sedgwick was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, and wrote the book A Dialogue on Love about her feelings toward death, her depression, and her gender uncertainty following her mastectomy and during chemotherapy.
		One of Sedgwick's principal claims is that seemingly nonperformative sentences can have a performative nature, especially those with homophobic and anti-homophobic effects.
		In particular, Sedgwick claims that on a societal level, simply labeling something 'Queer', 'normal', or 'abnormal', has a normative effect: it makes that thing what it is labeled and has the opposite effect on the term implied by the label.
	buju.banton.pl.ogarnij.com /de/Eve+Kosofsky+Sedgwick (759 words)

	Eve Sedgwick
		Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought.
		Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone.
		They undertook her signature technique of "queering" literary works (showing how texts encode meanings that work against the sexually circumscribed, homophobic culture in which they were written) with a vengeance, creating some pretty horrendous scholarship in the process.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/sedgwick_eve.htm (1080 words)

	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chloe Hogg on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "The Beast in the Closet," University of Pennsylvania:
		Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Home Page, Duke University: This page, dating from 1997, includes links to Some Recent Talks and Published Writings, bibliographies by Sedgwick's students about "Victorian Textures," some Sedgwick poetry, and sample syllabi.
		"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on 'The Beast in the Jungle,'" University of Idaho: A brief excerpt from from Sedgwick's article, "The Beast in the Closet: Henry James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic," in Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, ed.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/theorists/sedgwick.htm (282 words)

	Salon Ivory Tower \| The reeducation of a queer theorist
		But it's precisely this personal, confessional reckoning that Sedgwick undertakes in "A Dialogue on Love." For Sedgwick to decide to make this move inward, she had to first arrive in a dark place -- the depression she'd battled on and off since childhood, which returned with a vengeance after her chemotherapy.
		When I met Sedgwick last month to talk about "A Dialogue on Love," she appeared to have recovered from her illness, though sadly, as she reveals in the book, the cancer has metastasized and is being called incurable.
		According to Sedgwick, it was just this kind of interchange that fueled her emotional re-education.
	www.salon.com /books/it/1999/09/27/sedgwick/print.html (1851 words)

	Critical Theory: Eve Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born in Dayton, Ohio and educated at Yale and Cornell, Eve Sedgwick's strikingly original work on homosocial desire has made her one of the founders of gay and lesbian studies in America.
		Sedgwick sees her work as "being strongly marked by a queer politics that is at once antiseparatist and antiassimilationist; by a methodology that draws on deconstruction among other techniques, and by writerly experimentation."
		A poet as well as a critic, Sedgwick has taught writing and literature at Hamilton College, Boston University, and Amherst College; she is currently Newman Ivy White Professor of English at Duke University.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/critical/sedgwick.htm (153 words)

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