Camp Grounds by David Bergman
The concept of camp has never been easy to define. Derived from the French verb ""camper"" (to pose) it has been variously interpreted as a style that favours exaggeration, an ironic attitude toward the cultural mainstream and a form of aestheticism that celebrates artifice over beauty. At the same time, camp has been long associated with homosexual culture, or at least with a self-conscious eroticism that questions traditional gender constructions. The 16 essays on camp included in this book explore the relationship between style and homosexuality, showing how camp has made its way into every aspect of our cultural lives: theatre, popular music, opera, film, and literature. Beginning with an overview of what camp is, where it came from and how it operates, the chapters address topics ranging from the ""high camp"" of Whitman and Proust to the ""low camp"" of drag-queen culture and gay fanzines. Together they carry forward a conversation that began more than 25 years ago, before Stonewall and AIDS, when Susan Sontag published her memorable ""Notes on Camp"".Professor of English at Towson University, David Bergman has written or edited over twenty volumes, including Gaiety Transfigured: LGBT Self-Representation in American Literature and The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Creation of Gay Culture. He is also the editor of Reported Sightings by John Ashbery and The Violet Quill Reader by John Ashbery. Bergman won the Lambda Literary Award for Men on Men 2000, as well as the George Elliston Poetry Prize for Cracking the Code, the first of four poetry collections. His work has published in American Literary History, American Literature, and Raritan, among other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870238789 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870238787 |
| Title | Camp Grounds |
| Author | David Bergman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Year published | 1993-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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