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Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire

By Steve Clark

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
9780415068017, 0415068010, 0203167724, 9780203167724, 9780203283332
LCC
PR120.M45 C57 1994
Open Library ID
OL1432307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2456934 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
296\300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires. But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible to value these texts as misogynist texts in the light of feminist theory? Sordid Images is a challenging, controversial book. It will excite and unsettle its readers, and inspire many to look again at some of the cornerstone works of English literature.

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