Androgyny in Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9781349507948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 202 str.

T. Hargreaves

Opis

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 siecle to the present."

Recenzje

'...an insightful and stimulating read.' - Women: A Cultural Review

Spis treści

Introduction Classical to Medical Despised and Rejected Virginia Woolf The Second Wave Myra Breckinridge and The Passion of New Eve Alchemy and the Chymical Wedding Index

O autorze

TRACY HARGREAVES teaches modern and contemporary literature in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK