Kevin Kopelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 451706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Kopelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kopelson |
| SIGNATURE | KOPELSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8076-3582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vital Forces to Be Reckoned With: Towards an Alternative Critical Pathway for Affirming Addiction's Loss of Control
Critical addiction studies since the field's purported turn to matter has largely favoured nominally materialist conceptual approaches more conducive to continuing de/constructivist projects of de-essentialising drugs and their presumed causal relation to loss of control. This essay demonstrates, however, that it is precisely in their attention to the pervasiveness of 'thing power', and to the banal, daily reality of things' causal relation to ou…
The Mother of Us All
The Mother of Us All? Kevin Kopelson (bio) Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. I have long believed that the late Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick saw herself, at least in relation to gay male readers, as our mother. My proof has been two consecutive rhetorical questions posed by Sedgwick in her very brilliant third book: Epistemology of the Closet. The questions concern how Marcel Prous…
Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted
Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted Kevin Kopelson (bio) Muhlstein, Anka. Monsieur Proust’s Library. New York: Other Press, 2012. Marcel Proust, as a writer, was even more, shall we say (in order to invoke the first near-complete and also tea-based experience of involuntary memory had by the would-be-writer narrator “Marcel” of À la recherche du temps perdu, which as you may not know was the second novel Proust ne…
Reasonable Man
In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so, is self-effacement a virtue or mere pretense carried out under concealed premises
Decadence and Catholicism
Does a failure to produce enjoyable prose ever indicate a failure to enjoy anal sex? If so, when? Let us consider the case of two colleagues with whom I happen to have had no intercourse whatsoever
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays
In this text, musicologist Richard Taruskin uses music, together with history and politics, to illustrate the many ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed, both from within Russia and from the Western perspective. He contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's national character can best be understood. The book begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics and the theorists and …
Homos
Funérailles
Research Article| January 01 1996 Funérailles Kevin Kopelson Kevin Kopelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1996) 3 (1): 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kevin Kopelson; Funérailles. GLQ 1 January 1996; 3 (1): 53–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-1-53 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Men…
Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics
Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music
Seeing Sodomy: Fanny Hill's Blinding Vision
One of the oddest and most erotic moments in Cleland's Fanny Hill occurs when Fanny is knocked "senseless" by a voyeuristic vision of two young men having anal intercourse. This sodomitical passage demonstrates a dominant culture's strong phobic attraction to a socially peripheral Other against which it defines itself. The passage also represents two types of transgression. On one level, it records an inversion of sex, gender, and class paradigms…
Seeing Sodomy: Fanny Hill's Blinding Vision
One of the oddest and most erotic moments in Cleland's Fanny Hill occurs when Fanny is knocked "senseless" by a voyeuristic vision of two young men having anal intercourse. This sodomitical passage demonstrates a dominant culture's strong phobic attraction to a socially peripheral Other against which it defines itself. The passage also represents two types of transgression. On one level, it records an inversion of sex, gender, and class paradigms…
Seeing Sodomy: Fanny Hill's Blinding Vision
One of the oddest and most erotic moments in Cleland's Fanny Hill occurs when Fanny is knocked "senseless" by a voyeuristic vision of two young men having anal intercourse. This sodomitical passage demonstrates a dominant culture's strong phobic attraction to a socially peripheral Other against which it defines itself. The passage also represents two types of transgression. On one level, it records an inversion of sex, gender, and class paradigms…
Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics
Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music
Homos
Funérailles
Research Article| January 01 1996 Funérailles Kevin Kopelson Kevin Kopelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1996) 3 (1): 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kevin Kopelson; Funérailles. GLQ 1 January 1996; 3 (1): 53–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-1-53 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Men…
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays
In this text, musicologist Richard Taruskin uses music, together with history and politics, to illustrate the many ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed, both from within Russia and from the Western perspective. He contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's national character can best be understood. The book begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics and the theorists and …
Decadence and Catholicism
Does a failure to produce enjoyable prose ever indicate a failure to enjoy anal sex? If so, when? Let us consider the case of two colleagues with whom I happen to have had no intercourse whatsoever
Reasonable Man
In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so, is self-effacement a virtue or mere pretense carried out under concealed premises
The Mother of Us All
The Mother of Us All? Kevin Kopelson (bio) Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. I have long believed that the late Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick saw herself, at least in relation to gay male readers, as our mother. My proof has been two consecutive rhetorical questions posed by Sedgwick in her very brilliant third book: Epistemology of the Closet. The questions concern how Marcel Prous…
Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted
Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted Kevin Kopelson (bio) Muhlstein, Anka. Monsieur Proust’s Library. New York: Other Press, 2012. Marcel Proust, as a writer, was even more, shall we say (in order to invoke the first near-complete and also tea-based experience of involuntary memory had by the would-be-writer narrator “Marcel” of À la recherche du temps perdu, which as you may not know was the second novel Proust ne…
Vital Forces to Be Reckoned With: Towards an Alternative Critical Pathway for Affirming Addiction's Loss of Control
Critical addiction studies since the field's purported turn to matter has largely favoured nominally materialist conceptual approaches more conducive to continuing de/constructivist projects of de-essentialising drugs and their presumed causal relation to loss of control. This essay demonstrates, however, that it is precisely in their attention to the pervasiveness of 'thing power', and to the banal, daily reality of things' causal relation to ou…
Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · French Literature and Critical Theory (2 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)