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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bozorth, Richard R. Auden's games of knowledge. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)51480761 |
Named Person: | W H Auden; W H Auden; W H Auden; Wystan H Auden; W H (Wystan Hugh) Auden; Wystan H Auden |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard R Bozorth |
ISBN: | 0231113528 9780231113526 0231113536 9780231113533 |
OCLC Number: | 46422039 |
Description: | xiv, 340 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | "But who would get it?" : sexual politics and coterie poetry -- "The question is what do we mean by sex" : diagnosis and disorder -- "Have you heard this one?" : queer revolution in Paid on both sides and The orators -- "What we see depends on who's observing" : politics and authority in the 1930s -- "Tell me the truth about love" : confessional lyric and lovers' discourse -- "Just what appearances He saves" : God and the unspeakable. |
Series Title: | Between men--between women. |
Responsibility: | Richard R. Bozorth. |
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Bozorth's splendid study of Auden's position as a poet of "erotic autobiography" is the first serious attempt to place Auden's homosexuality at the core of his poetic output. For the most part avoiding the self-involved rhetoric of queer studies, Bozorth offers a convincing demonstration that... Auden's poetry is a dialogue in which same-sex desire is the means by which the poet explores both who he is and what he values in a world of uncertain relations. Choice Read more...
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