Queer Space: Romanticism to Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetics

杰罗姆·麦甘认为一些浪漫主义的挽歌是“狂喜的”，通过考虑“基于当下和直接生活的所有事物”来挑战它们自己的纪念功能。蒂莫西·莫顿通过他的“黑暗生态学”概念来接近这种动态，认为挽歌化的主题被折叠到挽歌环境中。这种理解是“奇怪的”，公开借用奇怪理论家关于人类和非人类模糊的思想。然而，很少有人谈到这种批判性理解的可逆性：生态学可以“quered’，酷儿可以“生态化”。本文通过拜伦为他的情人约翰·爱德华所写的挽诗“Thryza”循环来探讨这一疏忽，拜伦的原生态诗学同时表达和混淆了奇怪的身体。本文将建立一个从浪漫主义到世纪中期美国诗学的理论谱系，特别是弗兰克·奥哈拉和约翰·维纳斯的理论谱系。“Thryza”循环的奇怪生态框架阐明了这些诗人在诗意和城市环境中奇怪身体的表现。论文将展示这些诗意的城市空间作为“挽歌”，通过空间暗示他们自己的暴力或致命的破裂信号同性欲望。本项目通过理论方法的结合，

Jerome McGann sees some Romantic elegies as 'ecstatic', challenging their own memorial function through considering'all things on a basis of present and immediate life'. Timothy Morton approaches this dynamic through his notion of 'darkecology', arguing that the elegized subject becomes folded into the elegiac environment. This understanding is 'queer',openly borrowing thought on the blurring of human and nonhuman from queer theorists. However, little has been said onthe reversibility of this critical understanding: ecology can be 'queered', queerness can be 'ecologised'. This thesis shallinvestigate this oversight through the 'Thryza' cycle of elegiac poems, written by Lord Byron for his lover John Edleston,where his proto-ecological poetics simultaneously articulate and obfuscate the queer body. This thesis will then establisha theoretical lineage that runs from Romanticism to mid-twentieth century American poetics - particularly that of FrankO'Hara and John Wieners. The queer ecological frameworks of the 'Thryza' cycle illuminate the representation of thequeer body in the poetic, and urban, environments of these poets. The thesis shall demonstrate these poetic and urbanspaces as 'elegiac', signalling same-sex desire through spaces which implicate their own violent or mortal rupture. Thisproject, through its combination of theoretical methodologies,