Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature
by
Peter Schwenger
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
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...