Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature [electronic resource] : Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 /
Johnson, Allan.author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Fisher King's Wound -- 3. The Cloud of Unknowing -- 4. Rituals of Mourning -- 5. Cupio Dissolvi -- 6. The Sense of a Beginning -- 7. Conclusion.
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.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
America-Literatures.
British literature.
Culture.
Gender.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Culture and Gender.