Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in "The Pattern More Complicated," a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken "the pattern of dead and living" grows "more complicated" with the years. Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life. "The Pattern More Complicated" assembles...
Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in "The Pattern More Complicated," a collection of his very best p...
Gender criticism, Alan Williamson argues, has for too long been shaped and limited by the same dualisms that have defined male versus female literary voices in Western culture. Certain emotions expressed in literature are considered -feminine, - certain emotions are typed as -masculine, - and there is little room in critical studies for the male writer who shares in feminine experiences or who finds himself on the wrong ideological side of those firmly gendered dichotomies.
Confined by such strict codes, male writers--homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual--possessing the...
Gender criticism, Alan Williamson argues, has for too long been shaped and limited by the same dualisms that have defined male versus female litera...
Gender criticism, Alan Williamson argues, has for too long been shaped and limited by the same dualisms that have defined male versus female literary voices in Western culture. Certain emotions expressed in literature are considered "feminine," certain emotions are typed as "masculine," and there is little room in critical studies for the male writer who shares in feminine experiences or who finds himself on the wrong ideological side of those firmly gendered dichotomies.
Confined by such strict codes, male writers--homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual--possessing the sensibilities...
Gender criticism, Alan Williamson argues, has for too long been shaped and limited by the same dualisms that have defined male versus female litera...
A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner. An engaging and astute reader and observer, Alan Williamson uses his poetic lens to examine the new connections, notably with the Far East, that have been forged in the West, but also the fear, anxiety, and sense of cultural vacancy that western artists have had to overcome...
A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has devel...
