Literature Compass

Figure 1. Carolyn Dinshaw and Gossip Girl: Perfect for Summer!

Readers of Literature Compass may be interested in a round-table conversation and “book event” over at the medieval studies group weblog In The Middle devoted to a reappraisal of Carolyn Dinshaw’s 1999 book Getting Medieval: Sexual Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Follow the links below, in order of earliest to latest posts:

Opening Up

Touching Carolyn Dinshaw

The Ruins and the Past

The Past in the Past

Time is the Question of the Subject Seized by His or Her Other: The Intensities of an Ardor of a Different Kind in Dinshaw’s Queer Historicism

Tales of the Avunculate

[Noli] me Tangere

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