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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows – Page 2 – A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Course Syllabus for “The Young Adult Novel” – University of Notre Dame. August 18, 2014. August 18, 2014. As always, all comments and suggestions are more than welcome. You are welcome to draw inspiration from this syllabus, but please make sure to give me credit if you do so–and be sure to share your syllabus with me so I can see what you did similarly or differently! February 16, 2014. Signif...
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Queer Time in Edmund White’s [A Boy’s Own Story] – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Queer Time in Edmund White’s [A Boy’s Own Story]. February 16, 2014. Front cover of Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story. A Boy’s Own Story. I was chagrined by [his] clowning because I’d already imagined Kevin as a sort of husband. No matter that he was younger; his cockiness had turned him into the Older One (23). Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories,. A Boy’s Own Story,. Ironic, then,...
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Truth and Mendacity in Tennessee Williams’ [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Truth and Mendacity in Tennessee Williams’ [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]. January 30, 2014. Front cover of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. What do you know about this mendacity thing? I could write a book on it! Don’t you know that? I could write a book on it and still not cover the subject? 8211;Think of all the lies I got to put up with! Ain’t that mendacity? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We...
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Angel Daniel Matos – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Author: Angel Daniel Matos. I Survived Graduate School! May 22, 2016. June 26, 2016. It’s been too long since I’ve posted something on this website! One of the most exciting things to happen this year only occurred about three weeks ago: I successfully defended my dissertation and officially became Dr. Matos! Feeling Infinite: Affect, Genre, and Narrative in Young Adult Queer Literature. Before...
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Course Syllabus for “The Young Adult Novel” – University of Notre Dame – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Course Syllabus for “The Young Adult Novel” – University of Notre Dame. August 18, 2014. August 18, 2014. As always, all comments and suggestions are more than welcome. You are welcome to draw inspiration from this syllabus, but please make sure to give me credit if you do so–and be sure to share your syllabus with me so I can see what you did similarly or differently! Annie on My Mind. Enter y...
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Growth and Development in Stephen Chbosky’s [The Perks of Being a Wallflower] – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Growth and Development in Stephen Chbosky’s [The Perks of Being a Wallflower]. October 14, 2012. January 2, 2015. The content of this blog post was developed into an academic article that was published by. Original cover of Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (1999). The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Now, it was an unusually complex title for a young adult novel, but seeing as I ...
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Trading Spaces: Gay Markers of Urbanity and NBC’s Will & Grace – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. Trading Spaces: Gay Markers of Urbanity and NBC’s Will & Grace. February 8, 2015. February 8, 2015. The citizens of Middleborough, NY, attempt to stop the markers of urbanity (Jack and Will) from leaving their neighborhood. Sour Balls depicts an instance in which gay men recognize how they are being viewed as markers of gay urbanity, and how they thwart this signification by performing the very...
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John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse”: A Postmodern Critique of the Developmental Narrative – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse”: A Postmodern Critique of the Developmental Narrative. November 19, 2013. April 5, 2014. To achieve. In an attempt to highlight the complexity and richness of this story, let me turn my attention to unpacking the following passage:. Is there a specific age that a person must reach before being able to formulate complex ideas? It can be said that the narrator ...
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We Are the Stories We Tell: Patrick Ness’ [More Than This] – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. We Are the Stories We Tell: Patrick Ness’ [More Than This]. January 2, 2015. January 2, 2015. Major spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned! Front cover of Patrick Ness’. The notions of storytelling and narrative are central to Patrick Ness’ 2013 young adult novel entitled. The novel opens with Seth, the protagonist, committing suicide by drowning himself at sea. He immerses himself into violent...
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On Closets and Straight Gazes – Bill Konigsberg’s [Openly Straight] – The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
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The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows. A scholarly blog on (young adult) literature, gender, and queer studies. On Closets and Straight Gazes – Bill Konigsberg’s [Openly Straight]. September 5, 2014. January 2, 2015. Front cover of Bill Konigsberg’s. I was thinking about how snakes shed their skin every year, and how awesome it would be if people did that too. In a lot of ways, that’s what I was trying to do. But hopefully not Born Again. Epistemology of the Closet. Rafe is born into a family that readil...
