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Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire
Contributor(s): Clark, Steve (Author)
ISBN: 0415755808     ISBN-13: 9780415755801
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $61.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism
- Reference
Dewey: 821.009
Lexile Measure: 1280
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.77 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires.
But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible to value these texts as misogynist texts in the light of feminist theory?
Sordid Images is a challenging, controversial book. It will excite and unsettle its readers, and inspire many to look again at some of the cornerstone works of English literature.