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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450454903321

Autore

Kinnahan Linda A (Linda Arbaugh)

Titolo

Lyric interventions [[electronic resource] ] : feminism, experimental poetry, and contemporary discourse / / Linda A. Kinnahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-446-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54099287

Soggetti

Feminist poetry, American - History and criticism

American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Experimental poetry, American - History and criticism

Experimental poetry, English - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Lyric poetry - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction; 1 Lyric Conversations and Interventions; 2 Lyric Discourse, the Arts, and the Avant-Garde; 3 "Our Visible Selves"; 4 The Rhetoric of Self, Nation, and Economics; 5 Theory and the Lyric "I"; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lyric Interventions explores linguistically innovative  poetry by contemporary women in North America and Britain whose  experiments give rise to fresh feminist readings of the lyric subject.  The works discussed by Linda Kinnahan explore the lyric subject in  relation to the social: an "I" as a product of social discourse and as a  conduit for change.Contributing to discussions of language-oriented poetries  through its focus on women writers and feminist perspectives, this study  of lyric experimentation brings attention to the cultural contexts of  nation, gender, and