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Gendered Modernisms : American Women Poets and Their Readers
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Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these wome...
Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry. Ultimately, the aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement--for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s.
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- Creator
- Thomas Travisano, Margaret Dickie
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781512801668, 9780812233124, 1512801666, 0812233123
- OCLC
- ocn979781287, ocn982358876
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- 1. Recovering the Repression in Stein's Erotic Poetry -- 2. History as Conjugation: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem -- Part II. H.D. (1886-1961) -- 3. H.D., Modernism, and the Transgressive Sexualities of Decadent-Romantic Platonism -- 4. Pornopoeia, the Modernist Canon, and the Cultural Capital of Sexual Literacy: The Case of H.D. -- Part III. Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- 5. "So As to Be One Having Some Way of Being One Having Some Way of Working": Marianne Moore and Literary Tradition -- 6. "The Frigate Pelican" 's Progress: Marianne Moore's Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice -- Part IV. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- 7. Jouissance and the Sentimental Daughter: Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 8. Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation -- Part V. Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) -- 9. Laura (Riding) Jackson's "Really New" Poem -- Part VI. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- 10. The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon -- Part VII. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- 11. Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics -- 12. "The Buried Life and the Body of Waking": Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History -- Part VIII. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) -- 13. Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the "Margins" -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Subjects
- American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Canon (Literature)