Androgyny in Modern Literature
Author | : T. Hargreaves |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2004-11-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230510579 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230510574 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Download or read book Androgyny in Modern Literature written by T. Hargreaves and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present.