Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature

Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-65508-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 173 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3443 g

This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Allan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Fisher King’s Wound.- 3. The Cloud of Unknowing.- 4. Rituals of Mourning.- 5. Cupio Dissolvi.- 6. The Sense of a Beginning.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Allan Johnson is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.  He is the author of Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence (Palgrave, 2014) and numerous articles on modernism, esotericism, gender studies, and narrative theory. He has previously taught at the University of Leeds, Birkbeck University of London, and City University of Hong Kong.