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:I notice there aren't any citations for this page. I've never heard of queer theory, so it's hard for me to tell what is right and what is made up. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 23:01, 13 November 2008 (EST)
:I notice there aren't any citations for this page. I've never heard of queer theory, so it's hard for me to tell what is right and what is made up. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 23:01, 13 November 2008 (EST)
::You're probably lucky enough to have gone to a conservative enough college (or gone to college long enough ago) that you wouldn't have heard of queer theory. It's a revisionist approach to literature -- the professors do it to have an edgy and new approach, but all it does is facilitate a reading of homosexual themes into places where they don't belong, nor were they intended by the authors. Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, etc, all these great world literary figures didn't intend any homosexual themes in their literary works, yet these queer theorists are purposefully misinterpreting the texts to have these themes. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 03:06, 15 November 2008 (EST)
::You're probably lucky enough to have gone to a conservative enough college (or gone to college long enough ago) that you wouldn't have heard of queer theory. It's a revisionist approach to literature -- the professors do it to have an edgy and new approach, but all it does is facilitate a reading of homosexual themes into places where they don't belong, nor were they intended by the authors. Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, etc, all these great world literary figures didn't intend any homosexual themes in their literary works, yet these queer theorists are purposefully misinterpreting the texts to have these themes. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 03:06, 15 November 2008 (EST)
:::I went to an extremely liberal college, but I was in the engineering program. (My only English class involved reading science fictuion.) But I did see Twelfth Night in high school, and there was a lot of generbending going on, and history (the non-revised kind) tells us that when the plays were performed men played all the parts. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 12:46, 15 November 2008 (EST)