Poetics of the feminine : authority and literary tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser / Linda A. Kinnahan
1994, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404254
ISBN: 0521451272
Series; Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 74. Physical description; xi, 285 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. "The Full of My Freed Voice": Williams and Loy, Feminism and the Feminine -- The New Freewoman, the Egoist, and the Feminine -- The Feminist Movement, Mina Loy, and Others -- The Feminine as Resistance to Authority -- 2. In The American Grain: Proclaiming a Feminine Ground -- A Maternal Model for Tradition -- History's Myth of Discovery: Mastery's "outward thrust" -- The Feminine Ground of Contact: "a moral source not reckoned with" -- Language and the Local: "a woman drawing to herself ... myriad points of sound" -- 3. Denise Levertov: The Daughter's Voice -- A Maternal Mode of Authority: "The voice / a wave rising" -- A Discourse in Compassion: "Revolution in the poem -- The Houses of Tradition: "rise up / with changed vision" -- 4. Kathleen Fraser: A Tradition of Marginality -- Language Innovation and a Feminist Poetics: "to re-write the flood" -- Language Dis-ease: "What structure gagged me?" -- Language, Gender, and Tradition: "inside / (jittery / burned language)" -- Spring and All: New and Hidden Tradition -- Conclusion: Paterson and the Question of Authority. Subjects; Fraser, Kathleen 1935-2019 Criticism and interpretation. Levertov, Denise 1923-1997 Criticism and interpretation. Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963 Influence. Loy, Mina Criticism and interpretation.
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