Stoppard’s Arcadia considers the role of gender in the quest for knowledge and the ways human nature resists a fully deterministic model of the universe. The play uses the symbol of the apple to connect the two women, their thirst for new kinds of knowledge, and their theories about the ways nature and mathematics reflect or resist each other.
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Dissolution of True Knighthood: Queer Identity and Trauma in Calvino’s _The Nonexistent Knight_
The narration of Italo Calvino’s novel The Nonexistant Knight explores the aftermath of trauma in the queer body through the repeated use of mirrored images, contorted doubles, and illusion. In this translation by Archibald Colquhoun, the character Bradamante embodies elements of a non-binary gender identity through her status as a knight within Charlemagne’s army. InContinue reading “Dissolution of True Knighthood: Queer Identity and Trauma in Calvino’s _The Nonexistent Knight_”
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