Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415755801)

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.

Author: Steve Clark
ISBN-10: 0415755808
ISBN-13: 9780415755801
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2014
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d