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I made it all the way to Durham and I only got lost once!
I discovered that Duke has a copy of Nagakubo Youko's Theory of the Yaoi Novel, which is... detailed. It has a good 20 pages on the "height rule," followed by a good 40 pages on other ways in which the seme and uke are distinguished from one another. But an exruciating amount of detailed observations is a vast improvement over stupid "girls are afraid of sex!" sociological hand-waving. (Nagakubo states right up front that her aim is literary, rather than sociological, analysis--looking primarily at the texts themselves--which suits me better). One has to wonder whether yaoi novels are really worth 350 pages of analysis, but I'm entertained so far.
I also learned that one of the first authors to be widely translated from English into Japanese was Bulwer-Lytton. That Bulwer-Lytton.
It's a great thing to be out of school. You can learn so much when it isn't homework... when you only work part-time, anyway.
I discovered that Duke has a copy of Nagakubo Youko's Theory of the Yaoi Novel, which is... detailed. It has a good 20 pages on the "height rule," followed by a good 40 pages on other ways in which the seme and uke are distinguished from one another. But an exruciating amount of detailed observations is a vast improvement over stupid "girls are afraid of sex!" sociological hand-waving. (Nagakubo states right up front that her aim is literary, rather than sociological, analysis--looking primarily at the texts themselves--which suits me better). One has to wonder whether yaoi novels are really worth 350 pages of analysis, but I'm entertained so far.
I also learned that one of the first authors to be widely translated from English into Japanese was Bulwer-Lytton. That Bulwer-Lytton.
It's a great thing to be out of school. You can learn so much when it isn't homework... when you only work part-time, anyway.