The Erotics of Masculine Demise - Homosexual Sacrifice in Modernist Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Merrill Cole Klappentext Positing that male homoeroticism is a crucial component of any comprehensive understanding of modernism and the crisis of modern masculine identity! this text explores how homoerotic affect - instantiated in the works of Rimbaud! Crane and Eliot - contributes to queer theory! and shows what poetry has to offer critical inquiry. Zusammenfassung Positing that male homoeroticism is a crucial component of any comprehensive understanding of modernism and the crisis of modern masculine identity, this text explores how homoerotic affect - instantiated in the works of Rimbaud, Crane and Eliot - contributes to queer theory, and shows what poetry has to offer critical inquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Intellectual Life of the Feelings Acknowledgments Chapter One: The Anatomy of Decision: Modernist Bodies and the Meaning of No Chapter Two: The Rack of Enchantments: New Love in Rimbaud's Illuminations Chapter Three: Jouissance of the Commodities: Rimbaud against Erotic Reification Chapter Four: Empire of the Closet: Erotic Colonization in The Waste Land Chapter Five: Perversion's Permanent Target: Hart Crane and the Uses of Memory Conclusion: A Lovely End Epilogue: Wine Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Merril Cole, Merrill Cole
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415967051
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96705-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Gender studies: men and boys, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Biography, Literature and Literary studies