Whitman's queer children America's homosexual epics - Davies, Catherine A. (Continuum International Publishing, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Half title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; (i) The homosexual epic; (ii) The history of the epic poem; (iii) Homosexuality and the epic; (iv) Sexual citizenship; (v) Homosexuality and the national; (vi) 'I too/that am a nation': The homosexual in America; (vii) Homotextuality; Chapter 1: 'Stranger in America': Hart Crane's Homosexual Epic; (i) The Bridge; (ii) 'Stranger in America'; (iii) Redefining the epic for America; (iv) America versus Europe; (v) Queering the epic; (vi) The homosexual epic
(Vii) 'The theme is creative and has vista'(viii) The road to The Bridge; (ix) In the shadow of The Bridge; (x) Homosexuality in context; (xi) Contexts of citizenship; Chapter 2: 'It occurs to me that I am America': Ginsberg's Queer Shoulder; (i) Ginsberg's epics; (ii) 'Putting my queer shoulder to the wheel'; (iii) Ginsberg and the critical field; (iv) A tale of two epics; (v) 'Wichita Vortex Sutra': Black magic language; (vi) The American nekyia; (vii) Ginsberg's America: Rethinking the jeramiad; (viii) Tracing Whitman's influence; (ix) 'The culture of my generation, cocksucking and tears'
(X) 'Let the crooked fl ower bespeak its purpose'Chapter 3: 'Narcissus bent/Above the gene pool': James Merrill's Epic of Childlessness; (i) A child of tradition; (ii) Issues of authorship; (iii) Going by the board: Structuring the trilogy; (iv) The role of the unconscious; (v) The influence of Whitman; (vi) Voicing the Other; (vii) Childlessness; (viii) Ego fragmentation and the bardic voice; Chapter 4: ' The natural noise of the present': John Ashbery's Flow Chart; (i) 'A great deal of thinking went into it/and out the other side'
(Ii) 'And the river threaded its way best it could through sharp obstacles and was sometimes not there'(iii) 'I'm more someone else, taking dictation/from on high, in a purgatory of words'; (iv) Is Flow Chart an epic?; (v) Situating Ashbery: The critical response; (vi) Flow Chart and polyphony; (vii) A new kind of epic; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000; Geschichte 1930-1991; American literature / New York (State) / New York / History and criticism; Authors, American / Homes and haunts / New York (State) / New York; Refugee children / New York (State) / New York / Biography; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Homosexuality in literature; Epic poetry, American -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Epos; Langgedicht; Homosexueller; USA; Biografie