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tiresian poetics modernism sexuality voice 1888 2001
blind seer articulate dead and mythic transsexual the figure of tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries . in twentieth century literature the boundaries crossed and embodied by tiresias are primarily sexual and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure . indeed in literature of the twentieth century tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities .
hardcover associated univ pr 2008 isbn13 9780838639375 isbn10 0838639372
book type nf isbn 13 9780838639375 number of pages 402 publisher fairleigh dickinson univ pr release date 1217376000000