#FictionalCharacterPopeyeTheSailorMan #FictionalCharacterOliveOyl #PhenomnCrossDressing #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #TheoryAffectiveResponseBewilderment

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Addendum my use of #CharacterisationEmasculationAmbiguityAndrogyny here uses this interpretation: "As adjectives the difference between androgynous and epicene is that androgynous is possessing the sex organs of both sexes while epicene is lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine." https://wikidiff.com/androgynous/epicene i.e. an 'over-coding' (rather than 'under-coding') of sexual distinction. I am also referring to #IRLScholarMeyerHowardAbrams' literary use here (cited by Timothy Bahti): "In 1957 M.H. Abrams described ambiguity as a term 'widely used I to signify that often, in poetry, two or more meanings of a word or phrase are relevant. 'Multiple meaning' and 'plurisignation' are alternate terms for the same phenomenon ; they have the advantage of avoiding the implication, in the ordinary use of 'ambiguity,' that the quality is a stylistic fault rather than a valuable poetic device.' To an illustrative passage drawn from Shakespeare, Abrams added that its language 'is richly multiple in significance.''" Bahti, T. (1986). 'Ambiguity and Indeterminacy: The Juncture.' Comparative Literature 38(3): 209-223. ^{[academic source]}