{"id":186,"date":"2012-06-04T17:52:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=186"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:25:41","slug":"why-is-tadzio-a-boy-perspectives-on-homoeroticism-in-death-in-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/why-is-tadzio-a-boy-perspectives-on-homoeroticism-in-death-in-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Tadzio a Boy?  Perspectives on Homoeroticism in Death in Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This essay was probably first essay focusing on same-sex desire in Mann\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Death in Venice<\/span> to be in a collection aimed at student audiences. It provides background information about the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany during Mann\u2019s lifetime and biographical information about Mann\u2019s own same-sex desires. As it uncovers many of the homosexual signifiers in the novella, it concludes that the novella depicts the relationship between sexuality and cultural production, showing \u201cMann\u2019s awareness, not only of the influences of sexuality on textuality, but also of the effect of textuality on sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Tadzio a Boy?\u00a0 Perspectives on Homoeroticism in\u00a0Death in Venice,\u201d Thomas Mann,\u00a0\u00a0Death in Venice:\u00a0 A New Translation.\u00a0 Background and Contexts. Criticism, ed. Clayton Koelb (New York:\u00a0 Norton, 1994) 207-32.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay was probably first essay focusing on same-sex desire in Mann\u2019s Death in Venice to be in a collection aimed at student audiences. It provides background information about the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany during Mann\u2019s lifetime and biographical &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/why-is-tadzio-a-boy-perspectives-on-homoeroticism-in-death-in-venice\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is Tadzio a Boy?  Perspectives on Homoeroticism in Death in Venice<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4349,12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}