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The narrator's mother and father died in a car crash when he was young. Left without either of his own, he was always attracted to other people's parents, insinuating himself upon those of his schoolfriends. In time he befriends his in-laws. The moment that this rootless orphan...
But members of the council a University-wide coalition of bisexual, gay and lesbian groups, admitted that the project would encounter some difficulty becoming a reality.
D.A. Miller, who has raised coyness to a critical art form, continues to practice it delightfully in Bringing Out Roland Barthes, where he approaches the French critic at that intersection of gay politics/identity/community/practice and literary criticism that has emerged in the past few years as queer theory. He sets out...
The album is inspired by Incidents, a collection of Barthes's late writings recently translated by Richard Howard, packaged together with Bringing Out Roland Barthes in matching bindings, bound together back-to-back with a wide paper band that depicts the two authors' eyes. Barthes gazes out, solemn, from one...
The "Two Bodies" section also provides a neat example of the structuring of the Barthes/Miller encounter. Beginning with either an anecdote from Barthes's work, or one from his own experience as a gay man, Miller then finds some underlying gay male project or condition of which this incident is...