{"product_id":"audens-games-of-knowledge-richard-bozorth-9780231113526","title":"Auden's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length consideration of Auden as a homosexual poet, this volume shows that Auden's career was tied to a process of gay self-interrogation unparalleled in modern poetry and argues that he was driven by a powerful yearning to comprehend the psychological, political, and ethical implications of same-sex desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuden's theories about poetry in the 1930s and after reflected an intense concern with how to write publicly as a homosexual poet. That struggle was made manifest in his love poetry, which Bozorth argues constitutes a kind of \"erotic autobiography\" exploring the distinct challenges of homosexual love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBozorth's approach is manifold, examining the poet's engagements with avant-garde poetics, gay subculture, psychoanalysis, leftist politics, and theology. This book proposes that from his early fascination with secret agent and trickster figures to his later theories of poetry as an I-Thou relation, Auden viewed poetry as a fictional but primal erotic encounter with the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Bozorth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231113528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231113526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 1045\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 230","brand":"Richard Bozorth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48135947321599,"sku":"9780231113526","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f20be15-401e-4012-a6fb-f9079cf1ac2d.jpg?v=1770159498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/audens-games-of-knowledge-richard-bozorth-9780231113526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}