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The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky" offers an impressionistic account of the dancer's homoerotic career, an analysis of his gay male reception, and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis.

A vivid (and startling) example of the "new musicology, " this book is an interdisciplinary study of romantic pianism in relation to gender and sexuality. Discussing erotic anxieties of musical amateurs, sexual myths concerning child prodigies, prurient interests in virtuosos, castrating figurations of "maiden" piano teachers, and the phenomenon of Liberace, the author underscores the extent to which the piano resonates with homosexuality and ...

At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism--toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siecle."--Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice--moving with a lit...

A vivid (and startling) example of the "new musicology, " this book is an interdisciplinary study of romantic pianism in relation to gender and sexuality. Discussing erotic anxieties of musical amateurs, sexual myths concerning child prodigies, prurient interests in virtuosos, castrating figurations of "maiden" piano teachers, and the phenomenon of Liberace, the author underscores the extent to which the piano resonates with homosexuality and ...

In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the desk--rolltop or bureau-plat, cluttered or bare, the nestlike desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any such furniture. Exploring the topography of literary creation by way of the topography of work space, Kopelson, one of today's most important critics, offers a series of meditations on how orderliness, chaos, and other physical states correspond wit...

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“When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris’s every sentence, it’s easy to miss the more serious side of what he’s up to.  Fortunately, Kevin Kopelson has come along to guide readers through the work of the best and most subversive social satirist in America.”  —Stephen McCauley, author of The Object of My Affection "Charting a course from Marcel Proust to Tony Danza, Kevin artfully captures the exquisite pleasure and pain of reading David Se...

A meditation on the nature of order examines the desks of authors, poets, and playwrights in order to gain insight into the creative process through the nature of the workspace, revealing how the work habits of writers correspond to their actual published work.

At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism--toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siecle."--Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University "Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice--moving with a li...