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Tiresian Poetics
Ed . Ed(S): Madden
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Description for Tiresian Poetics
Hardback. Editor(s): Madden, Ed. Num Pages: 402 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 767.
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 and embodied 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.com e to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualties. This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian ... Read more
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 and embodied 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.com e to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualties. This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611472301
SKU
V9781611472301
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99-15
About Ed . Ed(S): Madden
Ed Madden is an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Reviews for Tiresian Poetics
The range of texts he analyses, together with the cross-references and allusions make for a truly stimulating intellectual journey….This is an exemplary piece of work.
The Michaelian
The Michaelian