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The feminist avant-garde in American poetry.

The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make lan...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frost, Elisabeth A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2005.
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Summary:The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issu.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
ISBN:9781587294341
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