Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 161147230X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Ed Madden is an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia
Eliot, whose poem The Waste Land includes arguably the most well-known uses of Tiresias in modern English Literature; Djuna Barnes, whose queer Irish-American Tiresias provides an insistent voice of sexual and social marginalization; and Irish poet Austin Clarke who set out to revise Eliot's use of Tiresias but ended up narrating a myth of sexual panic. The book also examines work by writers whose use of Tiresian figures consistently linked sexual differences, especially homosexuality, to forms of performative, poetic, and aesthetic power.If The Waste Land e
(The Michaelian) . The range of texts he analyses, together with the cross-references and allusions make for a truly stimulating intellectual journey….This is an exemplary piece of work
A must-have! jbnsc Dr. Madden is a genius and a good friend.If you don't own this book, correct that problem.Wonderful!!