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"Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed andembodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure. Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities."
"This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian andmodernist writers reimagined Ovid's tale of sex change and sexual judgment, they also created a poetics that grounded artistic or perfonnative power in figures of sexual difference - most often a feminized, often homosexual malebody, which this study links to the developing discourses of homosexuality and sexual identity."--Jacket.
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Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Poetics, American literature, History and criticism, Homosexuality in literature, Gender identity in literature, Eliot, t. s. (thomas stearns), 1888-1965, Barnes, djuna, 1892-1982, Clarke, austin, 1896-1974, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Modernism (literature)Times
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Tiresian poetics: modernism, sexuality, voice, 1888-2001
2008, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
in English
0838639372 9780838639375
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-390) and index.
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