Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809317613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorByrne R. S. He is the author of Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination, numerous articles, and a novel American Lives.. Fone is professor of English at the City University of New York
"Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text" according to Courtney Redman. AN amazing book that attempts to demystify contemporary society of Whitman's sexual orientation. Fone utilizes Derridadean Theory to present his notion that Whitman may have been using homoeroticism within his writing to convey the messgage that people cannot be put into catagories. Much like Derrida's notion that signs are separate from words, Whitman's text is separate from himself.I definatly reccommend
Byrne R. Fone is professor of English at the City University of New York. S. He is the author of Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination, numerous articles, and a novel American Lives.
S. Further, he places Whitman in the context of nineteenth-century literary/social homosexual life as well as in the context of homosexual fantasy as expressed in certain nineteenth-century texts.. Scrutinizing the weave and texture of Walt Whitman’s earliest poetry and fiction, the notebooks of 185556, the first edition (1855) of Leaves of Grass, and the Calamus poems, Byrne R. Fone demonstrates that from the beginning and throughout, Whitman’s homoerotic muse, his "Fierce Wrestler," dictated the shape, tone, and message of the poetry.Fone shows how Whitman’s presumed homosexuality is reflected in the work. He identifies the definitive signs, symbols, metaphors, andstructures unique to homosexual texts as he examines the ways in which the social, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sexual facts of homosexuality shape and define such texts