Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire

Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780415068017
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.0093538
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 291
Weight: 500g
Height: 145mm
Width: 223mm
Spine width: 25mm