Writing lovers : reading Canadian love poetry by women /
"Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Meira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The language of love : an oblique beginning
- Love and other unofficial stories : narrative prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler
- Possessed by love : the metaphoric production of desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept
- In between : Dionne Brand's poetics of love and resistance
- Love letters from an unmade bed : Dorothy Livesay's poetics of disquiet
- On the line : revenge as confessional strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing and Nicole Markotic's "No goodbye, just:"
- Bone memory : love and breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue marrow
- Speaking in tongues : Daphne Marlatt's answering touch or how to sign a love letter.