Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou - Hardcover
The haunting legacy of Emily Dickinson's life and work have shaped a romantic conception of poetry as private, personal, and expressive that has governed the reception of subsequent American women poets. "Of Women, Poetry, and Power" demonstrates how the canonization of Dickinson has consolidated limiting assumptions about women's poetry in twentieth-century America and models an alternative reading practice that allows for deeper engagement with the political work of modern poetry. Analyzing the reception of poems by Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou, Zofia Burr shows the persistence of these critical outlooks and dispels the belief that we have long since moved beyond such limiting gendered expectations. Turning away from an obsessive concern with a poet's biography, Burr's readings of contemporary women's poetry accentuate its engagement and provocation of readers through its forms of address. Burr shows how displacing the limits of dominant reception
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
ADVANCE PRAISE "A fascinating, ground-breaking study of what it means to write poetry as a woman in America. Sensitive to poetic meaning and style, sharp and wide-ranging in its work on criticism and reviewing, this study provides a strong look at Emily Dickinson as a paradigmatic case, and does strong and original readings of several major twentieth-century figures." -- Timothy Morris, author of Becoming Canonical in American Poetry "Highly recommended." CHOICE
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0252027698
- ISBN 13 9780252027697
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages248
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 96.00
Shipping:
US$ 4.99
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou
Published by
University of Illinois Press
(2002)
ISBN 10: 0252027698
ISBN 13: 9780252027697
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. xii, 232 p.,23 cm. "The haunting legacy of Emily Dickinson's life and work have shaped a romantic conception of poetry as private, personal, and expressive that has governed the reception of subsequent American women poets. "Of Women, Poetry, and Power" demonstrates how the canonization of Dickinson has consolidated limiting assumptions about women's poetry in twentieth-century America and models an alternative reading practice that allows for deeper engagement with the political work of modern poetry. Analyzing the reception of poems by Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou, Zofia Burr shows the persistence of these critical outlooks and dispels the belief that we have long since moved beyond such limiting gendered expectations. Turning away from an obsessive concern with a poet's biography, Burr's readings of contemporary women's poetry accentuate its engagement and provocation of readers through its forms of address. Burr shows how displacing the limits of dominant reception.". Seller Inventory # 2011050034
Buy New
US$ 96.00
Convert currency