Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 by Allan Johnson (9783319880464)

Description - Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 by Allan Johnson

This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.

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Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Allan Johnson

Description - Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 by Allan Johnson

Other Editions - Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 by Allan Johnson

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