{"title":"American failurism: hart crane’s the bridge and Kenneth Burke’s paradox of purity","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Hart Crane acknowledged the problem of creating a representative tale of the American tribe. Unlike other writers, however, Crane harnessed the long poem’s generic incapacity to universalize experience as his poem’s central structural and thematic principle. This failure of linguistic union is analogous to the failure of sexual union, but these broken erotic unions open space for poetic expressions of an unidealized myth of homosexual union.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130068465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cruelty of breeding: queer time in the waste land","authors":"Sam See, S. Herring, Heather K. Love, W. Moffat","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286980.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Reproductive sexuality is the inevitable precondition for what is actually wasted in The Waste Land. The poem exists in a dialectical queer time that simultaneously propels, reverses, and freezes the motion of heterotemporality.","PeriodicalId":359811,"journal":{"name":"Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131791436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}