Tiresian poetics : modernism, sexuality, voice, 1888-2001 /
Madden, Ed,1963-
Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-390) and index.
Introduction: toward a Tiresian poetic -- Sexing the voice -- Between two lives : Michael Field's Tiresian poetics -- Sexual meanings : reading T.S. Eliot's Tiresias -- Nervous bodies and cinematic voices in T.S. Eliot's The waste land -- Giving voice to difference : Matthew O'Connor in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood -- Pen is lifted : history as homosexual panic in Austin Clarke's "Tiresias" -- Queer and confused : Tiresias at century's end.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Barnes, Djuna
Field, Michael
Clarke, Austin, 1896-1974
American literature
Modernism (Literature)
Poetics.
Gender identity in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.