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Androgyny in Modern Literature

By Tracy Hargreaves

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403902003, 9781403902009
DOI
10.1057/9780230510579
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
667 kB (683063 bytes)
Edition
2005
Pages
212\209
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Gender Studies;

Description

Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siScle to the present.

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