Guy Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 828799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9101-8764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
The Queerness of World War II: Problems and Possibilities
The five years or so after World War II saw a wave of novels dealing centrally with male homosexuality. They fall roughly into two groups. First, a group of novels about military life, including Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead (1948) and James Jones’s From Here to Eternity (1951), covered homosexuality as an important component of their gritty realism. Second, a group of novels set during or after the war, including Charles Jackson’s The F…
Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
The novel has been widely acknowledged as a historically significant factor in the construction of gay identities, and the novel is central to queer literary studies. Yet the genre of the gay novel is curiously undertheorized. Scholars seldom address the transformations wrought on the novel by engagements with queerness, generally treating it as simply a delivery system for queer representation and queer affect. This essay addresses this gap in q…
Spatial relation categorization in infants and deep neural networks
Queer literary studies and the question of identity categories
In the current imagining of sexuality, both within the academy and beyond it, the supposed fixity (and staidness) of identity categories such as lesbian, gay, and straight are often opposed to the putative lability (and transgressive thrill) of queerness. Queer is originally a distinctively American phenomenon (though the term was quickly taken up in other Anglophone societies); its emergence was provoked by and manifested in a host of coincident…
Accidental Elder
Queer Objects
Just a couple of fags: Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and celebrity feud
This article argues that the long-running feud between the two celebrity authors Truman Capote and Gore Vidal indicates a crucial shift in the nature of literary celebrity from the 1940s to the 1970s. At its commencement, the feud was about competition for literary fame and the respective literary talent of the two authors. It thus indicated the seriousness and the prestige that American culture accorded literature and how American literary celeb…
Embarrassment in 1968: Gore Vidal's Sexuality in the Public Sphere
In 1968 William F. Buckley, Jr. called Gore Vidal a "queer" on TV, an event that was widely construed as socially embarrassing. This essay investigates the political implications of embarrassment, both in relation to attitudes toward homosexuality in 1968 and in relation to contemporary queer theory
Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures a
The Closet of the Third Person’: Susan Sontag, Sexual Dissidence, and Celebrity
In this essay I argue that the tension between Susan Sontag's status as a postmodern celebrity and her devotion to the modernist cult of impersonality may be productively related to her sexuality. Beginning with her famous essay ‘Notes of Camp’ (1964), Sontag aligned herself (somewhat uneasily) with metropolitan gay culture. On the other hand, Sontag was one of the most famous undeclared lesbians in recent history. While she largely eschewed life…
Displaying the Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity
Whiteâ s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of oneâ s private life, and to control oneâ s public image, that structure the contemporary mode of literary celebrity. His professions were also associated with a shift in the mode of his writing from modernism to postmodernism. It is the interconnections between aesthetic mode, sexual disclosure, and literary c…
Contagious Relations
Research Article| January 01 2005 "CONTAGIOUS RELATIONS": Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin's Cruising and Felice Picano's The Lure Guy Davidson Guy Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 23–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-23 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Learning to Read the Aboriginal Way
This article briefly describes recent approaches to Aboriginal reading education, and assesses their possible usefulness on the basis of the extent to which they are consistent with present-day cognitive and cross-cultural psychological views on reading. Competence approaches are seen as having least likelihood of success, while other approaches based on indigenous learning styles, explicit metacomprehension skills, and functional literacy provid…
Culture conflict and coping in a group of aboriginal adolescents
Contagious Relations
Research Article| January 01 2005 "CONTAGIOUS RELATIONS": Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin's Cruising and Felice Picano's The Lure Guy Davidson Guy Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 23–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-23 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Displaying the Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity
Whiteâ s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of oneâ s private life, and to control oneâ s public image, that structure the contemporary mode of literary celebrity. His professions were also associated with a shift in the mode of his writing from modernism to postmodernism. It is the interconnections between aesthetic mode, sexual disclosure, and literary c…
Just a couple of fags: Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and celebrity feud
This article argues that the long-running feud between the two celebrity authors Truman Capote and Gore Vidal indicates a crucial shift in the nature of literary celebrity from the 1940s to the 1970s. At its commencement, the feud was about competition for literary fame and the respective literary talent of the two authors. It thus indicated the seriousness and the prestige that American culture accorded literature and how American literary celeb…
Queer Objects
The Closet of the Third Person’: Susan Sontag, Sexual Dissidence, and Celebrity
In this essay I argue that the tension between Susan Sontag's status as a postmodern celebrity and her devotion to the modernist cult of impersonality may be productively related to her sexuality. Beginning with her famous essay ‘Notes of Camp’ (1964), Sontag aligned herself (somewhat uneasily) with metropolitan gay culture. On the other hand, Sontag was one of the most famous undeclared lesbians in recent history. While she largely eschewed life…
Culture conflict and coping in a group of aboriginal adolescents
Learning to Read the Aboriginal Way
This article briefly describes recent approaches to Aboriginal reading education, and assesses their possible usefulness on the basis of the extent to which they are consistent with present-day cognitive and cross-cultural psychological views on reading. Competence approaches are seen as having least likelihood of success, while other approaches based on indigenous learning styles, explicit metacomprehension skills, and functional literacy provid…
Contagious Relations
Research Article| January 01 2005 "CONTAGIOUS RELATIONS": Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin's Cruising and Felice Picano's The Lure Guy Davidson Guy Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 23–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-23 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Displaying the Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity
Whiteâ s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of oneâ s private life, and to control oneâ s public image, that structure the contemporary mode of literary celebrity. His professions were also associated with a shift in the mode of his writing from modernism to postmodernism. It is the interconnections between aesthetic mode, sexual disclosure, and literary c…
The Closet of the Third Person’: Susan Sontag, Sexual Dissidence, and Celebrity
In this essay I argue that the tension between Susan Sontag's status as a postmodern celebrity and her devotion to the modernist cult of impersonality may be productively related to her sexuality. Beginning with her famous essay ‘Notes of Camp’ (1964), Sontag aligned herself (somewhat uneasily) with metropolitan gay culture. On the other hand, Sontag was one of the most famous undeclared lesbians in recent history. While she largely eschewed life…
Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures a
Embarrassment in 1968: Gore Vidal's Sexuality in the Public Sphere
In 1968 William F. Buckley, Jr. called Gore Vidal a "queer" on TV, an event that was widely construed as socially embarrassing. This essay investigates the political implications of embarrassment, both in relation to attitudes toward homosexuality in 1968 and in relation to contemporary queer theory
Just a couple of fags: Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and celebrity feud
This article argues that the long-running feud between the two celebrity authors Truman Capote and Gore Vidal indicates a crucial shift in the nature of literary celebrity from the 1940s to the 1970s. At its commencement, the feud was about competition for literary fame and the respective literary talent of the two authors. It thus indicated the seriousness and the prestige that American culture accorded literature and how American literary celeb…
Queer Objects
Accidental Elder
Queer literary studies and the question of identity categories
In the current imagining of sexuality, both within the academy and beyond it, the supposed fixity (and staidness) of identity categories such as lesbian, gay, and straight are often opposed to the putative lability (and transgressive thrill) of queerness. Queer is originally a distinctively American phenomenon (though the term was quickly taken up in other Anglophone societies); its emergence was provoked by and manifested in a host of coincident…
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
The Queerness of World War II: Problems and Possibilities
The five years or so after World War II saw a wave of novels dealing centrally with male homosexuality. They fall roughly into two groups. First, a group of novels about military life, including Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead (1948) and James Jones’s From Here to Eternity (1951), covered homosexuality as an important component of their gritty realism. Second, a group of novels set during or after the war, including Charles Jackson’s The F…
Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
The novel has been widely acknowledged as a historically significant factor in the construction of gay identities, and the novel is central to queer literary studies. Yet the genre of the gay novel is curiously undertheorized. Scholars seldom address the transformations wrought on the novel by engagements with queerness, generally treating it as simply a delivery system for queer representation and queer affect. This essay addresses this gap in q…
Spatial relation categorization in infants and deep neural networks
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Law (4 works)