Although he has played a significant role in contemporary queer letters, the American novelist, essayist and biographer Edmund White has received little critical attention. This thesis examines White's autobiographical-fictive series of novels, focusing in particular on the account of a 1970s and early 1980s articulation of queer community in The Farewell Symphony. White's novels engage a post-structural critique of identity formation, literary affect and queer intimacies. The implications of this critique are addressed in this thesis both in an elaboration of a foucauldian genealogy of White and in an adaptation of the concerns of Roland Barthes's exploratory autobiography, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21254 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Pupo, Mark. |
| Contributors | Cope, Karin (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001658453, proquestno: MQ50560, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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