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Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire
Sordid Images The Poetry of Masculine Desire Author:Steve Clark In this extraordinary and bold book, Steve Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of Englsih 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 t... more »his work ``after feminism,'' and whehter 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.« less