ENGL140 MIDTERM

1. Finding a name for desire, for relationships

1.1. Gilgamesh, c. 2500 BCE (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

1.2. Sappho, selected poems, c. 600 BCE (Lesbos, Greece)

1.3. Plato, "Symposium," c. 380 BCE (Athens, Greece)

1.3.1. Stephen Trask, "Origin of Love," 1998 (about Aristophanes' speech)

2. Creating communities

2.1. Jennie Livingston, "Paris is Burning," 1990

2.2. John Schlesinger, "Midnight Cowboy," 1969

3. Fleeing to the "West"

3.1. Maryam Kesharvaz, "Circumstance," 2011

3.2. Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain," 2005

4. Same words, different love

4.1. Jeffery & Cole, "VGL Gay Boys on Gay Marriage!," 2008

4.2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (featuring Mary Lambert), "Same Love," 2012

4.3. Mary Lambert, "She Keeps Me Warm," 2013

5. Desire, beauty, silence

5.1. 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin

5.2. Sappho, selected poems, c. 600 BCE (Lesbos, Greece)

6. Speaking desire without naming it

6.1. Sigur Ros, "Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása (Good Weather for an Airstrike)," 1999; (Set in 1950's Iceland)

6.2. Tennyson, "If I were loved as I desire to be" from In Memoriam A.H.H., 1894

6.3. Shakespeare, "A Woman's face with Nature's own hand painted," 1609

7. What are one's choices?

7.1. Randall Kenan, "Run, Mourner, Run," 1992

7.2. Peter Cameron, "Jump or Dive," 1985

8. What does it mean to have a type of identity (masculine/butch male) that prizes the individual over community?