Joseph Valente (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Valente, Joseph. “Thrilled by His Touch: The Aestheticizing of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” In Quare Joyce, edited by Joseph Valente, pp. 47-75. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
[In the following essay, Valente explores homoerotic elements in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.]
In his letters and essays, Joyce alludes repeatedly to the homoerotic activities supposedly rife in English or Anglo-Saxon boarding schools and implicit in their...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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