Androgyny in Modern Literature

Zusatztext '...an insightful and stimulating read.' - Women: A Cultural Review Informationen zum Autor TRACY HARGREAVES teaches modern and contemporary literature in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK Klappentext Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present. Zusammenfassung Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Classical to Medical Despised and Rejected Virginia Woolf The Second Wave Myra Breckinridge and The Passion of New Eve Alchemy and the Chymical Wedding Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: T Hargreaves, T. Hargreaves, Tracy Hargreaves
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.11.2004
• EAN: 9781403902009
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-0200-9
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Sex, B, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600