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Tiresian Poetics
Ed Madden
其他書名
Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001
出版Associated University Presse, 2008
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / LGBTQLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentitySocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN08386393729780838639375
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cS_2VsFEVjEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed andembodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure. Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities." "This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian andmodernist writers reimagined Ovid's tale of sex change and sexual judgment, they also created a poetics that grounded artistic or perfonnative power in figures of sexual difference - most often a feminized, often homosexual malebody, which this study links to the developing discourses of homosexuality and sexual identity."--BOOK JACKET.