{"id":188,"date":"2012-06-04T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-06-13T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T18:19:16","slug":"in-and-against-nature-goethe-on-homosexuality-and-heterotextuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/in-and-against-nature-goethe-on-homosexuality-and-heterotextuality\/","title":{"rendered":"In and Against Nature:  Goethe on Homosexuality and Heterotextuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seminal essay applies queer theory and deconstructive thought to Goethe&#8217;s thinking on male-male desire, concluding that &#8220;like pederasty, the text should be a pharmakon, both natural and unnatural, meaning both itself and the Other&#8211;in a word, heterotextual.&#8221; It appeared in the important collection, <em>Outing Goethe and His Age<\/em>, which brought queer theory to eighteenth-century German studies.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn and Against Nature:\u00a0 Goethe on Homosexuality and Heterotextuality,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Outing Goethe and His Age<\/span>, ed. Alice Kuzniar (Stanford:\u00a0 Stanford UP,\u00a0 1996) 94-110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seminal essay applies queer theory and deconstructive thought to Goethe&#8217;s thinking on male-male desire, concluding that &#8220;like pederasty, the text should be a pharmakon, both natural and unnatural, meaning both itself and the Other&#8211;in a word, heterotextual.&#8221; It appeared &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/in-and-against-nature-goethe-on-homosexuality-and-heterotextuality\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In and Against Nature:  Goethe on Homosexuality and Heterotextuality<\/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-188","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\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}