1st Edition
Phallic Critiques (Routledge Revivals) Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature
By Peter Schwenger
Copyright 1984
184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of ‘masculine’ styles of writing in the twentieth century – an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when ‘virility has become self-conscious’. Writers who carry macho values to their extreme often subscribe to the popular feeling that writing is an effeminate activity for a real man to be engaged in. Consequently they attempt to forge... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The language of men 2. Reserve and its reverse 3. The cult of the body 4. The pen and the penis 5. The novel as a dirty joke 6. A fabled hunting 7. Supermale 8. The terrain of truth; Afterword; Notes; Index
Biography
Peter Wiliams
