{"product_id":"masculine-landscapes-walt-whitman-and-the-homoerotic-text-by-byrne-fone","title":"Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text by Byrne Fone","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780809317615\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSouthern Illinois University Press, June 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e320 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScrutinizing the weave and texture of Walt Whitman’s earliest poetry and fiction, the notebooks of 1855–56, the first edition (1855) of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaves of Grass,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalamus\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epoems, Byrne R. S. Fone demonstrates that from the beginning and throughout, Whitman’s homoerotic muse, his \"Fierce Wrestler,\" dictated the shape, tone, and message of the poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFone shows how Whitman’s presumed homosexuality is reflected in the work. He identifies the definitive signs, symbols, metaphors, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estructures unique to homosexual texts as he examines the ways in which the social, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sexual facts of homosexuality shape and define such texts. Further, he places Whitman in the context of nineteenth-century literary\/social homosexual life as well as in the context of homosexual fantasy as expressed in certain nineteenth-century texts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47218675351714,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/81YQVpx5nNL._SY522.jpg?v=1777376601","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/masculine-landscapes-walt-whitman-and-the-homoerotic-text-by-byrne-fone","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}