Confessions of the Letter Closet - Garlinger, Patrick Paul
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By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters from one reader to another. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how this confidential model persists in these fictions of letter writing from the early twentieth century to the present, framing expressions of queer desire in confessional terms: secrecy, guilt, morality, and shame.Confessions of the Letter Closet draws on queer theory and psychoanalysis, archival research on letter writing as a social practice…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters from one reader to another. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how this confidential model persists in these fictions of letter writing from the early twentieth century to the present, framing expressions of queer desire in confessional terms: secrecy, guilt, morality, and shame.Confessions of the Letter Closet draws on queer theory and psychoanalysis, archival research on letter writing as a social practice and on the advent of the postal system in Spain, and historical insights into the impact of Spanish laws regarding the inviolability of correspondence on epistolary fiction. Garlinger examines how the epistolary novel represents - and is implicated in - the homophobia and psychic ambivalence around sexuality and identity with which Spanish gays and lesbians struggle, despite significant legal advances and increased social tolerance.Addressing both male and female desire and drawing links to epistolary traditions outside of Spain, Confessions of the Letter Closet goes beyond the specifics of Spanish literature to contribute more broadly to queer theory, the study of epistolary fiction, and an understanding of autobiography and confessional discourse.
Autorenporträt
Patrick Paul Garlinger is an award-winning author and conscious channel. Nearly a decade ago, he experienced¿a profound spiritual awakening when he began to meet numerous spiritual teachers and experience¿higher states of consciousness. While completing his training under the¿renowned spiritual teacher, Mirabai Devi, Patrick underwent an¿awakening of his kundalini and¿channeled a series of works of spiritual wisdom between March and September 2016. The first volume, Seeds of Light: Channeled Transmissions on the Christ Consciousness, was published in March 2017 and awarded the 2018 Living Now Silver Medal for Metaphysics. Bending Time: The Power to Live in the Now, was released in June 2018. In addition, in 2016 Patrick published When Thought Turns to Light: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Transformation, a non-channeled introduction to spiritual techniques for readers seeking to incorporate more peace, joy, and wonder into their everyday lives, which won the 2017 Living Now Spirit Book Award. Patrick lives in New York City, where he shares the wisdom he has learned with others so that they may know their own divine truth. For more information about his books and services, please visit www.patrickpaulgarlinger.com.