1. Has anyone written about Anthony Powell's oeuvre (especially "Dance to the Music of Time") through prism of queer theory? It would be productive. Gender fluidity is a real theme in his work.
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3. In fact, the roman fleuve (the long, episodic "river novel" that follows a cast through course of their lives) seems ideally suited to depicting gender fluidity. See not just Proust & Powell but
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4. This would be good topic for a doctoral thesis: The Roman Fleuve & Gender Fluidity: Proust, Powell, & the Hernandez Brothers.
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5. This is absolutely true. There is a lot of gender fluidity in Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle (a twelve-volume roman fleuve that fuses Proust with Conan the Barbarian). https://twitter.com/realErazimKohak/status/1057825677909680128 …
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6. Anyways, I was just goofing around on twitter but I think this might be a good topic for an academic paper or even a book. Anyone is free to take it if they want.
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