| Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust Contributor(s): Lamos, Colleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521118670 ISBN-13: 9780521118675 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This original study reevaluates central texts of the modernist canon--Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past--by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. Colleen Lamos' analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, gender categories, and the relation between errant sexuality and literary mistakes. |