Article: Dissenting in an age of frenzied heterosexualism: Kinbote's transparent closet in Nabokov's 'Pale Fire.' (novel)

Kinbote's homosexuality . . . is a metaphor for the artist's minority view of a bad world, of "our cynical age of frantic heterosexualism." If one dared risk a guess at correlative idiosyncrasies in Nabokov himself, one would have to point to his intellectual disgust with Freudianism or remembering that he is a member of the Russian emigre minority, his loathing of Marxism. (Kermode 671-72)(1)

This remark from Frank Kermode's 1962 review of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire typifies the way in which "homosexuality" has functioned in literary critical discourse (if not necessarily in literature itself) until recent years: never as a nexus of experience, a material ...

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