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The male image : representations of masculinity in postwar poetry / Ian Gregson.
LIBRA PR508.M35 G74 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregson, Ian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Masculinity in literature.
- English poetry--Male authors--History and criticism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Influence.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- English poetry--Psychological aspects.
- Men in literature.
- English poetry--Male authors.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 204 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Ian Gregson's book discusses conventional expectations about male power -- how the acquisition and maintenance of such power is a source of both prestige and vulnerability, so that the penis can appear significantly fragile in comparison with the phallus. In this, the first study of post-war poetry which draws upon recent theoretical insights into masculinity, it is shown how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets, but the focus is on mostly straight males. Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identified a gender malaise in themselves which they struggled with throughout their careers, and Derek Walcott's work displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. The impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heany of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle is discussed, together with the way in which C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon displayed the impact of feminism on mate poets young enough to have encountered it at a formative period.
- Contents:
- Men and mermaids: Robert Lowell's martial masculinity and beyond
- John Berryman and the buried women
- Ted Hughes and the goddess of complete being
- Able semen and the penile canon: Derek Walcott's 'adamic utterance'
- Sons of mother Ireland: Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon
- 'Insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea': women representing men
- The politics of camp: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
- Creeps and bastards: C.K. Williams as voyeur.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312222467
- OCLC:
- 40675054
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