ISBN: 9780313298127

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a… Mehr…

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent developments in postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory, Holden argues that Maugham's work can be understood as an attempt to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer. Holden identifies Maugham's attempts to cultivate a public persona as a writer whose heterosexuality is confirmed through a process of control of language. Furthermore, Holden illuminates the fluidity of language that Maugham, in contrast to his public persona, associated with homosexuality. The basis of this study is the provocative notion that Maugham's texts, despite their exotic locations, ultimately dramatize a struggle over masculine British identity. Trade Books>Hardcover>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Bloomsbury Academic Core >2<

ISBN: 9780313298127

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a… Mehr…

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent developments in postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory, Holden argues that Maugham's work can be understood as an attempt to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer. Holden identifies Maugham's attempts to cultivate a public persona as a writer whose heterosexuality is confirmed through a process of control of language. Furthermore, Holden illuminates the fluidity of language that Maugham, in contrast to his public persona, associated with homosexuality. The basis of this study is the provocative notion that Maugham's texts, despite their exotic locations, ultimately dramatize a struggle over masculine British identity. Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory List_Books, [PU: Greenwood Press]<

1996, ISBN: 9780313298127

Praeger Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 178 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 1 kg, 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne, Bewe… Mehr…

Praeger Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 178 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 1 kg, 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne, Bewegungen & Epochen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Großbritannien, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Praeger Publishers, 1996<

1996, ISBN: 9780313298127

W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Praeger Publishers Inc], Praeger Publishers Inc, 1996

ISBN: 9780313298127

hardback, [PU: Greenwood Press]