SOURCE: "Male Heterosexuality in Hawkes's 'The Passion Artist," in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 36, No. 4, Winter, 1990, pp. 403-18.
In the following essay, Murphy evaluates John Hawkes's The Passion Artist as a work that "explores the fantasies, manifestations, doubts, and transformations of male heterosexuality in the context of a world besieged by hatred, fear, and shame. "
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