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Article: Narcissus 'Sous Rature': Male Subjectivity in Contemproary American Poetry.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Narcissus 'Sous Rature': Male Subjectivity in Contemporary American Poetry. By JODY NORTON. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 256 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].
In the preface to this worthwhile study of the construction of masculinity in Contemporary American poetry, Jody Norton flags the author's own liminal subject position as 'a human being who was born "male", and who remains in recovery from hir (sic) masculine construction' (p. 11). Norton does much to illuminate the ontological uncertainties and gender potentialities generated when poetry questions the integrity of the male lyric 'I' and undermines the symbolic ...