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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451090903321

Autore

Cole Merrill <1966, >

Titolo

The other Orpheus : a poetics of modern homosexuality / / Merrill Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-415-86135-7

1-135-88656-3

1-280-07624-0

0-203-50927-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

811/.509353

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Homosexuality and literature - France - History - 19th century

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature

Erotic poetry - History and criticism

Sex in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Intellectual Life of the Feelings; The Anatomy of Decision: Modernist Bodies and the Meaning of ~No~; The Rack of Enchantments: ~New Love~ in Rimbaud's Illuminations; Jouissance of the Commodities: Rimbaud against Erotic Reification; Empire of the Closet: Erotic Colonization in The Waste Land; Perversion's Permanent Target: Hart Crane and the Uses of Memory; A Lovely End; Wine; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book posits that male homoeroticism is a crucial component of any comprehensive understanding of modernism and the crisis of modern masculine identity.