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Deviant Modernism : Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Marcel Proust by Colleen Lamos (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521624185
ISBN-139780521624183
eBay Product ID (ePID)872999
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDeviant Modernism : Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Marcel Proust
Publication Year1998
SubjectWomen Authors, General, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
AuthorColleen Lamos
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-016594
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Yet Deviant Modernism is valuable as a study of that very will to normativity which structures the conventional moral and artistic codes of these three high male modernists, deconstructing the authority os such codes by revealing their defensiveness, circular logic, and disavowed irrationality." James Joyce Literary Supplement, "...[Lamo's study of modernism] makes such intellectual labor all the more pressing and valuable."Novel, "This is a controversial study recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty."Choice, "...[Lamo's study of modernism] makes such intellectual labor all the more pressing and valuable." Novel, "This is a controversial study recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
Dewey Decimal820.9/353
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Straightening out literary criticism: T. S. Eliot and error; 2. The end of poetry for ladies: T. S. Eliot's early poetry; 3. Text of error, text in error: James Joyce's Ulysses; 4. Sexual/textual inversion: Marcel Proust; Conclusion.
SynopsisThis original study reevaluates central texts of the modernist canon--Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past--by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. Colleen Lamos' analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, gender categories, and the relation between errant sexuality and literary "mistakes.", This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. According to modern cultural discourses and psychosexual categorizations, these deviant desires and identifications feminize men, or tend to render them homosexual. Colleen Lamos's analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. She argues that canonical male modernism, far from being a monolithic entity with a coherently conservative political agenda, is in fact the site of errant impulses and unresolved struggles. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, and a recognition of the heterogeneous forces which formed and deformed modernism., Colleen Lamos re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon by T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Marcel Proust, examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. She offers a stimulating reconsideration of modernist literature, gender categories and the relation between errant sexuality and literary 'mistakes'.
LC Classification NumberPS3509.L43 Z69174 19
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