The Male Image
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The Male Image

Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry

  1. English
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eBook - PDF

The Male Image

Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry

About this book

This book discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets - but, most of all, how it is represented by straight male poets. It shows how Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identify a gender malaise in themselves which they struggle with throughout their careers, and how Derek Walcott displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. It discusses the impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle, and how C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon display the impact of feminism on male poets who are young enough to have encountered it at a formative period.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Male lmage
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Men and Mermaids: Robert Lowell’s Martial Masculinity and Beyond
  7. 2 John Berryman and the Buried Women
  8. 3 Ted Hughes and the Goddess of Complete Being
  9. 4 Able Semen and the Penile Canon: Derek Walcott’s ā€˜Adamic Utterance’
  10. 5 Sons of Mother Ireland: Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon
  11. 6 ā€˜Insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea’: Women Representing Men
  12. 7 The Politics of Camp: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
  13. 8 Creeps and Bastards: C.K. Williams Voyeur
  14. Notes
  15. Index