Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature
Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945
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Beschreibung
This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.
Offers the first sustained account of how the literary uses of castration and impotence resituated modernist aesthetics
Explicates the history of how interwar writers reimagined material medical issues
Provides evidence of alternative views of male psychosexualities in the 1919-1945 period
Offers the first sustained account of how the literary uses of castration and impotence resituated modernist aesthetics Explicates the history of how interwar writers reimagined material medical issues Provides evidence of alternative views of male psychosexualities in the 1919-1945 period Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Allan Johnson
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