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AUDEN'S GAMES OF KNOWLEDGE
POETRY AND THE MEANINGS OF HOMOSEXUALITY |
By: |
Richard R. Bozorth |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0231113536 |
ISBN 13: |
9780231113533 |
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Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
11 July, 2001 |
Series: |
Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies |
Pages: |
320 |
Description: |
Shows that Auden's career was tied to a process of gay self-interrogation unparalleled in poetry. This work argues that he was driven by the yearning to comprehend the psychological, political, and ethical implications of same-sex desire. It also argues that his work constitutes an erotic autobiography exploring the challenges of homosexual love. |
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The 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. Auden'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.Bozorth'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. |
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Columbia University Press |
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