Masculine Identity In Modernist Literature: Castration, Narration, And A Sense Of The Beginning, 1919-1945
by Allan Johnson /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
