Scott Branson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Branson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Branson |
| SIGNATURE | BRANSON S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gay Liberation after May '68
In Gay Liberation after May ’68, first published in France in 1974 and appearing here in English for the first time, Guy Hocquenghem details the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing. Writing after the apparent failure and eventual selling out of the revolutionary dream of May 1968, Hocquenghem situates his theories of homosexual desire in the realm of revolutionary practice…
Practical Anarchism
Planned Obsolescence, or The Fate of Prose in Lytton Strachey's Biographies
Lytton Strachey's first major work, Eminent Victorians, made a revolutionary gesture by giving the lives of its famous subjects ironic treatment, atypical of the serious genre of biography. His highly stylized lives were readable, but his campiness brought critical backlash from the institutional gatekeepers. This dismissal took the same form of homophobic panic that attended writers of aestheticism. Engaging recent constellations of queer style …
Gide, Wilde, and the Death of the Novel
Gide, Wilde, and the Death of the Novel Scott Branson Gide’s only novel, Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925), ends with a bang—almost: little Boris, the troubled illegitimate grandson of the piano teacher La Pérouse, shoots himself in the head in front of the classroom in an initiation ritual forced upon him by a group of his pernicious classmates.1 Though Boris dies, the tragedy itself echoes for a few more pages. As with every event in Gide’s novel, the…
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Gide, Wilde, and the Death of the Novel
Gide, Wilde, and the Death of the Novel Scott Branson Gide’s only novel, Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925), ends with a bang—almost: little Boris, the troubled illegitimate grandson of the piano teacher La Pérouse, shoots himself in the head in front of the classroom in an initiation ritual forced upon him by a group of his pernicious classmates.1 Though Boris dies, the tragedy itself echoes for a few more pages. As with every event in Gide’s novel, the…
Planned Obsolescence, or The Fate of Prose in Lytton Strachey's Biographies
Lytton Strachey's first major work, Eminent Victorians, made a revolutionary gesture by giving the lives of its famous subjects ironic treatment, atypical of the serious genre of biography. His highly stylized lives were readable, but his campiness brought critical backlash from the institutional gatekeepers. This dismissal took the same form of homophobic panic that attended writers of aestheticism. Engaging recent constellations of queer style …
Gay Liberation after May '68
In Gay Liberation after May ’68, first published in France in 1974 and appearing here in English for the first time, Guy Hocquenghem details the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing. Writing after the apparent failure and eventual selling out of the revolutionary dream of May 1968, Hocquenghem situates his theories of homosexual desire in the realm of revolutionary practice…
Practical Anarchism
Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Pleasure (2 works)