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The Male Image. Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry.
Ian . Ed(S): Gregson
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Description for The Male Image. Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry.
Paperback. Editor(s): Gregson, Ian. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
This book discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets - but, most of all, how it is represented by straight male poets. It shows how Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identify a gender malaise in themselves which they struggle with throughout their careers, and how Derek Walcott displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. It discusses the impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle, and how C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon display the impact of feminism on male poets who are young enough ... Read more
This book discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets - but, most of all, how it is represented by straight male poets. It shows how Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identify a gender malaise in themselves which they struggle with throughout their careers, and how Derek Walcott displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. It discusses the impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle, and how C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon display the impact of feminism on male poets who are young enough ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349276615
SKU
V9781349276615
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Ref
99-15
About Ian . Ed(S): Gregson
IAN GREGSON was born in Manchester and educated at Oxford and Hull and since 1997 has been Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor. He is an award-winning poet and has published poems and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and ... Read more
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