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OverviewIn an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers--Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich--investigating the ways in which each attempts to forge a poetic voice capable of expressing both public concerns and private interests. Although Stein, Bishop, and Rich differ by generation, poetic style, and relationship to audience, all three are twentieth-century lesbian poets who struggle with the revelatory nature of language. All three, argues Dickie, use language to express and to conceal their experiences as they struggle with a censorship that was both culturally sanctioned and self-imposed. Dickie explores how each poet negotiates successfully and variously with the need for secrecy and the desire for openness. By analyzing each poet's work in light of the shared themes of love, war, and place, Dickie makes visible a continuity of interests between these three rarely linked women. In their very diversity of style and strategy, she argues, lies a triumph of the creative imagination, a victory of poetry over polemic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret DickiePublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.407kg ISBN: 9780807846223ISBN 10: 0807846228 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 April 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn eminently useful book, a truly seminal work of scholarship that revises writing we have long had access to.Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill An eminently useful book, a truly seminal work of scholarship that revises writing we have long had access to.<p>Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Author InformationMargaret Dickie is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. Her previous books include works on Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the Modernist long poem, and Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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