Title Body and the book : writings on poetry and sexuality / edited by Glennis Byron and Andrew J. Sneddon.

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Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume).
Series	DQR studies in literature ; 42
	DQR studies in literature ; 42.
Note	"The essays in this collection were developed from papers presented at the Poetry and Sexuality Conference at the University of Stirling, in July 2004"--Page [1].
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	The stimulating mix of academics and practising poets that have contributed to this volume provides an unusual and illuminating integration of critical and creative practice and a vibrantly diverse approach to questions of poetry and sexuality. Each section of essays is complemented by poems which creatively illustrate or develop the theme with which the essays critically engage. Rather than being limited to a specific genre, tradition, time or place, this collection seeks to make a virtue of contrast, comparison and juxtaposition. The collection is arranged into sections that range broadly ac.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	The Body and the Book; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: DICHOTOMIES; THE RIVER GOD; SEXUAL WATER: POETRY, DIONYSUS AND THE AQUATIC APE; HUNGER FOR SALT; LOVE STORY; 'WHEN THE HORN FITS, BLOW IT': MUSIC IN EROTIC POETRY; SLOW DANCING: BEACONSFIELD 1973; SINGULARITY; SECTION II: TRADITIONS AND REVISIONS; JUDITH; POETICS OF SACRED DESIRE IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY; THE BUOYANT MILKMAN; THE TINKER AS AN EROTIC ICON; READING BETWEEN THE LINES; 'THE POEM UPON THE PAGE IS AS MASSIVE AS ANNE'S THIGHS': TEXTUAL PROMISCUITY IN TED BERRIGAN'S THE SONNETS; NOTES FROM A JOURNAL.
Subject	Erotic poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
	Human body in literature -- Congresses.
	Sex in literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
	Poetry -- History and criticism.
	Human body in literature.
	Human body -- Poetry.
	Sex.
	English essays.
	Literature.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	English essays. (OCoLC)fst00910809
	Erotic poetry. (OCoLC)fst00914867
	Human body. (OCoLC)fst01730057
	Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762
	Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
	Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
	Sex in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114464
	Gedichten.
	Seksualiteit.
	Literaire thema's.
Genre/Form	Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Added Author	Byron, Glennis, 1955-
	Sneddon, Andrew J.
Other Form:	Print version: Body and the book. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 9042024224 9789042024229 (OCoLC)233026201
ISBN	9781435665705 (electronic bk.)
	1435665708 (electronic bk.)

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