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To this date, no comprehensive study of Sylvia Townsend Warner's short stories has been undertaken. The few publications that exist have concentrated on individual stories, but have not attempted to link them in terms of either content or form. This study closes a gap by highlighting the way Warner's stories shift to off-centre positions and by discussing Warner's highly innovative narrative style that does not conform in any way to conventional modernist or postmodernist standards. The monograph further sets out to outline the way in which Warner constantly challenges the categories we apply to classify our surroundings and analyses how Warner succeeds in creating 'queer', that is, non-heteronormative as well as strange and eccentric stories without explicitly opposing the so-called norms of her time. In this, Side-Stepping Normativity joins a vibrant conversation in queer studies which revolves around the question how critics can approach literary texts from a non-antagonistic position. Rather than focussing on the role of the critic, however, the monograph shows that Warner's texts have long achieved what queer theorists seek to achieve on an analytical level.
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Side-Stepping Normativity: Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner's highly innovative narrative style, which does not conform to conventional modernist or postmodernist standards, and explores how Warner's short stories shift to off-centre positions.Side-Stepping Normativity further outlines the way in which Warner constantly challenges the categories we apply to classify our surroundings and analyses how Warner succeeds in creating queer, that is, non-heteronormative as well strange and peculiar stories without explicitly opposing the so-called norms of her time.In this, Side-Stepping Normativity joins a vibrant conversation in queer studies which revolves around the question how critics can approach literary texts from a non-antagonistic position. Rather than focussing on the role of the critic, however, this thesis shows that Warner's texts have long achieved what queer theorists seek to achieve on an analytical level.
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AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Undoing Categories: The British Author Sylvia Townsend Warner2. Homoerotic Desires2.1 "The Shirt in Mexico": Gender Disruption and AmbiguousSpeech2.2 The "Curious Quality" of "Bruno2.3 Seeking Meaning in "The Green Torso"2.4 Desire and Detachment3. Cross-Species Relationships3.1 Knowledge and Love in the Introduction to The Cat'sCradle-Book3.2 Decentering the Human in "The Traveller from the West and the Traveller from the East"3.3 Corporeality and Control in "The Wineshop Cat"3.4 Shifting the Species Line4. Incestuous Longings4.1 Secrets and Sibcest in "A Love Match"4.2 Mothers and Desires in "At a Monkey's Breast"4.3 Expanded Experiences and Material Objects in "A Spirit Rises"4.4 Indifference to Conventions5. Avenues of Escape5.1 "At the Trafalgar Bakery" and Ex-Centric Spaces5.2 "But at the Stroke of Midnight" and Ex-Centric Modes of Being5.3 "An Act of Reparation": An Act of Emancipation5.4 Eluding Interpellation6. Vanishing6.1 Death and Disengagement in "'Boors Carousing'"6.2 Failure and Success in "A Work of Art"6.3 Textural Desires in "A Dressmaker"6.4 Nonbeing7. Elfin Indifference: Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin8. CodaWorks CitedPrimary LiteratureSecondary Literature
