| Description |
x, 373 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Reading women writing |
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Reading women writing.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-365) and index. |
| Contents |
When a "long" poem is a "big" poem: self-authorizing strategies in women's twentieth-century "long poems" / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Female power and the devaluation of Renaissance love lyrics / Diana E. Henderson -- "Martha's name," or the scandal of "the thorn" / Karen Swann -- Postscripts to Emily Dickinson / Susan Howe -- "Faith in anatomy": reading Emily Dickinson / Virginia Jackson -- On voice / Rita Dove -- Trying her tongue / M. Nourbese Philip -- An interweaving of worlds / Joy Harjo -- Performing, not writing: the reception of an Irish woman's lament / Angela Bourke -- Poetic subject and voice as sites of struggle: toward a "postrevisionist" reading of Stevie Smith's fairy-tale poems / Romana Huk -- Invading the "transparent laberynth": Anne Finch and the poetics of translation / Jayne Elizabeth Lewis -- On "the journey" / Eavan Boland |
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A few cranky paragraphs on form and content / Marilyn Hacker -- Genre development and gendered voices in Erinna and Nossis / Kathryn Gutzwiller -- Sappho shock / Anne Carson -- Sappho doubled: Michael Field / Yopie Prins -- Sappho's gymnasium / Olga Broumas and T Begley -- Entering the tents / Alicia Ostriker -- In her own images: Lucille Clifton and the Bible / Akasha (Gloria) Hull -- the woman's mourning song: a poetics of lamentation / bell hooks -- "Where are we moored?": Adrienne Rich, women's mourning, and the limits of lament / Maeera Shreiber -- Wrestling the angel of inscription / Eleanor Wilner -- Otherhow (and permission to continue) / Rachal Blau DuPlessis. |
| Subject |
Feminist literary criticism.
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Poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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| Added Author |
Prins, Yopie.
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Shreiber, Maeera, 1956-
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| ISBN |
0801431999 alkaline paper |
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9780801431999 alkaline paper |
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0801482941 paper alkaline paper |
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9780801482946 paper alkaline paper |
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