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SLL3001F: Sex from Sappho to Cyber 2010
COURSE READER CONTENTS Italo Calvino (1982) “Definitions of Territories: Eroticism” in The Literature Machine. London: Secker and Warburg. Bram Stoker (1897) Extracts from Dracula. (1983) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sheridan Lefanu (1872) Extracts from Carmilla. (1995) Ware: Wordsworth. Angela Carter (1979) "The Lady of the House of Love" from The Bloody Chamber. London: Penguin. Angela Carter (1979) Extracts from "Polemical Preface" to The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. London: Virago. Transcript of chat scene from the film Closer. Sex-blog extracts (Leticia McKenzie, Girl with a One Track Mind, MonMouth, Belle de Jour) Cassie Claire (2002) "The Very Secret Diary of Saruman the White", http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/
FANTASY AND THE VAMPIRE CRITICAL TEXTSAngela Carter (1979) "Polemical Preface" to The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. London: Virago. (Book is on Short Loan; extract in this reader). Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger (1997) Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press. Various articles on different vampire texts, many of them film/contemporary. Rosemary Jackson (1981) Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen. Especially chapters 2 and 4. Talia Schaffer (1994) “A Wilde Desire Took Me: the homoerotic history of Dracula", ELH 61(2), 381-425. On JSTOR. Rhonda V. Wilcox (2002) "'Every Night I Save You': Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption." Slayage 5 (2.1), May 2002. http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage5/wilcox.htm. You may well find other interesting Buffy and Angel articles on Slayage, see here for the archive. Jules Zanger (1997) "Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door" in Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, ed. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press. VAMPIRE TEXTSThis is a fairly random selection of classic and recent vampire texts in literature and film. These are suggestions, I’m quite happy for you to deal with any vampire text you are familiar with, so your class and exam essays don’t need to stick to texts on this list. If you don’t generally go for vampire stuff, this might give you some starting points. NB: not all of these will necessarily offer good expressions of the themes your essay topic asks you to analyse.
SEXUALITY AND THE INTERNETIn most cases the books themselves are in Short Loan; if it’s a photocopy, I’ve specified. INTERNET CULTUREKatie Argyle and Rob Shields (1996) "Is there a body in the Net?" in Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies ed. Rob Shields. London: Sage. Brenda Danet, Lucia Rudenberg and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari (1998) "Hmmm … where’s that smoke coming from?: Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" in Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, ed. Sudweeks, McLaughlin and Rafaeli. Menlo Park: AAAI Press. Richard C. MacKinnon (1998) "The Social Construction of Rape in Virtual Reality" in Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, ed. Sudweeks, McLaughlin and Rafaeli. Menlo Park: AAAI Press. David F. Shaw (1997) "Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace." In Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cyberspace. Ed. Stephen G. Jones. London: Sage. John Simmons (1995) "Sade and Cyberspace" in Resisting the Virtual Life, ed. Brook and Boal. San Francisco: City Lights. Alan Sondheim. ed (1996) Being On Line: Net Subjectivity. New York: Lusitania. http://www.alansondheim.org Alan Sondheim’s personal reflections on Net culture and subjectivity. Warning: (a) this is not in a user-friendly web format, it's a series of files with opaque titles, and (b) it's poetry. You'll have to dig for the items where he's talking particularly about online identity and eroticism, but (c) it's worth it. Catherine Waldby (1998) "Circuits of Desire: Internet Erotics and the Problem of Bodily Location." Culture & Communication Reading Room, Centre for Research in Culture & Communication, Murdoch University. http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/VID/Circuits3.html. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue2/index.html Play and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication, special issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1(2). INTERNET CHAThttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue2/bechar.html. "From < Bonehead > to < cLoNehEAd >: nicknames, play and identity on Internet relay chat." Haya Bechar-Israeli, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1(2). You may find other interesting articles in this journal, listed here. MUDs, MOOs AND MMORPGsBrady Haran (2003)“Fantasy games 'not for geeks'”, BBC News, http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/2939175.stm http://www.mudconnect.com/mudfaq/mudfaq-p1.html MUD-Connect's FAQ list - a good basic introduction to MUDs and MUDding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft. The Wikipedia entries on MMORPGs, Everquest and World of Warcraft. http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/staffblog/052009/6090_Girls-in-MMOs Girls in MMOs: a collection of comments from female gamers in World of Warcraft and others. Interesting points made about demographics and stereotyping. Contains sarcasm. SEX-BLOGGINGNB in the cases of all the personal blogs, I suggest you go back to the beginning of the archive and read forward as several of them change character dramatically over time. Personal sexual experiences: Girl with a One Track Mind http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com/: frank and unashamed confessions of a woman who enjoys a lot of sex.
Letitia McKenzie: On the cusp of adulthood in America.http://leticiamckenzie.blogspot.com/. A seventeen-year-old schoolgirl talking about fantasy and masturbation. Pansexual Sodomite: A Genetic Male Pansexual Polyfetishist in Durham, NC : Richard Evans Lee. a href="http://www.pansexualsodomite.org/. Interesting in its analytic approach to gay sexuality, fantasy, etc. Bitchy Jones: the dominatrix cursed with a soul. http://bitchyjones.wordpress.com/. A reflective blog about life as a self-confessed sadist; strong feminist slant. Prostitutes' sex blogs: http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com. High-class London call-girl blogs her experiences with clients, earns six-figure book deal.
Monmouth: the Rent Boy Diaries. http://monmouth.blogspot.com/.
Pussy Talk: DirtyTalkin'Girl. http://nicebluejournal.livejournal.com/. Interested equally in sex and writing; contrasts sex with the persona's husband to sex with her lover. Sex blogs as information digest: Violet Blue: Open Source Sex. http://www.tinynibbles.com/index.php. Internet personality, net freedom advocate and sex-blogger. Eros Blog: Sex Blogging, Gratuitous Nudity, Kinky Sex, Sundry Sensuality. http://www.erosblog.com/. Rather a historical approach to the erotic; lots of pictures. FAN FICTION THEORYKristina Busse (2006) "I'm Jealous of the Fake Me: Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fiction." Framing celebrity: new directions in celebrity culture. Ed. Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. London, New York: Routledge. Henry Jenkins (1992) " 'Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk': Slash and the Fan-Writing Community", In Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge. (in SL photocopy cabinets) Amy Harmon (1997) “In Dull TV Days, Favorites Take Wing Online”, New York Times, August 18 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/business/in-tv-s-dull-summer-days-plots-take-wing-on-the-net.html http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/01/1036027033529.html. Jon Casimir (2002), “For the love of...” http://firefox.org/news/articles/650/1/Dr-Merlin039s-Guide-to-Fanfiction/Page1.html: Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fan Fiction. Aimed at fanfic writers, but informative and entertaining. http://www.fictionalley.org/primer/ The Harry Potter fanfic guide – I recommend the Common Abbreviations list for the confused, and their very good description of a Mary Sue and of the slash phenomenon in the particular Harry Potter context. http://www.merrycoz.org/papers/MARYSUE.HTM. Pat Pflieger, "Too Good To Be True: 150 years of Mary Sue" http://www.josephpalmer.com/fanime/. Joseph Palmer, "Fanime 2004 Resources". http://ljconstantine.com/writing.htm Scroll down to the series of links to fanfic essays - some interesting stuff here. http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/rre/msg00012.html Henry Jenkins, "The Poachers and the Stormtroopers." Paper on the cultural and sociological implications of fan fiction, by a professor of media/communications at MIT. I recommend this! Henry Jenkins, "Everybody Loves Harry", post to his blog Confessions of an Aca-Fan, http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/05/everybody_loves_harry.html. This discussion of a recent Harry Potter conference gives useful background to the fandom. Topless Robot's 10 Most Face-Meltingly Awful Fan Fictions. Please look on this as a cautionary tale. Apart from being hilarious in a dreadful sort of way, it'll make your eyes bleed. http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/01/tr_special_the_10_most_face-meltingly_awful_fan_fi.php. "Fanfic: Force of Nature." Extremely interesting discussion of the legal and aesthetic implications of fanfic, on Patrick and Teresa Neilsen Hayden's Making Light blog. http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007464.html. "The Ecstacy of Influence: A Plagiarism", by Jonathan Lethem: a reflection on literary borrowing. http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387. "Star Trek, Darkover, Thunderbirds, and Fan Fiction: An Interview With Joan Marie Verba (Part One)", on Henry Jenkins's media culture blog, http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/_httpwwwjoanmarieverbacom_your.html . Interesting discussion on the pre-Internet origins of fandom. FAN FICTION LINKSThere is a lot of fanfic out there, and I really don’t mind which kind you choose to read – don’t feel obliged to stick to the examples I give. I suggest you try Fanfiction.net first; if nothing there interests you, try a Google search for fanfic + text of your choice (book, film, TV series, comic are the common ones, but you can, believe it or not, find World Wrestling Federation fanfic...). Be prepared to do a lot of skim reading to find the less agonising writers, not all of them are necessarily actually acquainted with the English language. http://www.fanfiction.net/ Fanfiction site: arranged by category. Pretty much anything you can think of, this is a huge site. Did you know people wrote A-Team fanfic…? A lot of this is terrible, you’ll have to do some browsing. http://www.fictionalley.org Harry Potter fanfic. Schnoogle is novel-length, Astronomy Tower is romance, Riddiklus is comedy, Dark Arts is angsty. Generally higher quality than Fanfiction.net. http://fan.theonering.net/writing/index.html Lord of the Rings fanfic – rather a lot of parody, you’ll have to dig for the serious stuff. You’ll find actor fanfic here, whereas fanfiction.net and the dedicated sites tend to ban it. http://fluky.gossamer.org/ X-Files fanfic. JUST FOR FUNhttp://www.brunching.com/features/geekhierarchy.html The Brunching Shuttlecocks’s Geek Hierarchy. Have a look at the extreme two right-hand columns. Furries. Good lord... http://www.squidge.org/~peja/lordsofthering/ListOfLoTRFanficClichesAndMarySuedoms.htm: Gil Shalos' BIIIIG List Of LOTR Fanfic Cliches And Mary Sue-Doms. This is very funny. XKCD's Internet Fantasy Map: a tongue-in-cheek plotting of internet culture, rife with in-jokes. |