Gendered Modernisms : American Women Poets and Their Readers /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dickie, Margaret, Travisano, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1900-1999
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)
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrivains et lecteurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American poetry.
American poetry > Women authors.
Authors and readers.
Books and reading.
Modernism (Literature)
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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