Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser Contributor(s): Kinnahan, Linda a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521101573 ISBN-13: 9780521101578 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2008 Annotation: This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser. Click for more in this series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 811.509 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.99 lbs) 304 pages |
Features: Bibliography |
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Publisher Description: This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a women's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser--three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics. Positioning Williamas in relationship to these three generations of Anglo-American women, the book pursues two questions: what can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams, teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a self within a male-dominated tradition? |
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