Liz Yorke

Impertinent Voices (eBook, ePUB)

Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women's Poetry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do women's poetic voices disrupt cultural forms? What is the relationship between female desire and the structures of poetry? Is 'writing the body' essentialist? Originally published in 1991, this title explores these questions in a sensitive and challenging study of female poetic strategies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000653151
• Artikelnr.: 64436358

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Re-visionary Task
Part I: Rethinking Womankind
1. A Song Out of Silence
2. The Poet as Witness: Im/pertinence
Fidelity
Respect
3. Unsettling Rational Violence: Susan Griffin's Holistic 'Knowing'
Part II: Constructing Myths of the Self
4. Identity and Crisis: Sylvia Plath's Quest for Integrity
5. 'What Girl Ever Flourished in Such Company?'
6. Seductive Scenarios: Fighting Back
7. Re-Creating 'My Own Legend': H. D.'s Helen in Egypt
Part III: Writing the Body: Desire and the M/Other-text
8. On the Need To Go To the Sources
9. Mother
Daughter
Sister
Lover: Adrienne Rich's Dream of a Whole New Poetry
Part IV: Primary Intensities: Lesbian Poetry and the Reading of Difference
10. Validating the Lesbian Body
11. 'Within the Fold of Purple: 'H. D.'s Argument with Freud
12. 'God Claps and Claps/Her One Hand'
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index