Meanings
adjectiveFirbankian (comparative more Firbankian, superlative most Firbankian)
comparative more Firbankian · superlative most Firbankian
- In the style of English novelist Ronald Firbank (1886–1926); high camp.
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.
2017, Mark Mathuray, editor, Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Springer, →ISBN, page 49
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