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Tiresian poetics : modernism, sexuality, voice, 1888-2001 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Madden, Ed, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Poetics.
Gender identity in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Barnes, Djuna > Criticism and interpretation.
Field, Michael > Criticism and interpretation.
Clarke, Austin, > 1896-1974 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: toward a Tiresian poetic
  • Sexing the voice
  • Between two lives : Michael Field's Tiresian poetics
  • Sexual meanings : reading T.S. Eliot's Tiresias
  • Nervous bodies and cinematic voices in T.S. Eliot's The waste land
  • Giving voice to difference : Matthew O'Connor in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
  • Pen is lifted : history as homosexual panic in Austin Clarke's "Tiresias"
  • Queer and confused : Tiresias at century's end.