Effeminate Bodies, Individual Confusion and National Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Robert Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß and Yu Dafu's "Boundless Night".

Robert Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906) and Yu Dafu's "Boundless Night" (1922) adopt similar plots about homoeroticism between the protagonist and an effeminate teenager, but for different purposes. For Robert Musil's protagonist, his effeminate classmate is a sexual object that h...

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Publicado en:Neophilologus Vol. 108; no. 2; pp. 261 - 278
Autor principal: Jiang, Xiaohu
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2024
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