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Firbankian
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English
Etymology
From en Firbank -ian.
Adjective
In the style of English novelist Ronald Firbank (1886–1926); high camp.
en 2017 Mark Mathuray Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst Springer 9781137337221 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=9NslDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%22Firbankian%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Firbankian%22&f=false In a similar way, Hollinghurst's Firbankian depictions suggest how existing power structures might be seen to encode ‘sites of erotic investment’ (Sinfield, 2000, p. 27), which while implicated in the history of heteronormative oppression, might nevertheless inform queer desire.
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