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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451085203321

Autore

Gill Jo <1965->

Titolo

Women's poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Jo Gill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-08922-2

1-78034-356-6

9786611089221

0-7486-2993-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh critical guides to literature

Disciplina

821.0099287

Soggetti

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Poetry - Women authors - 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

Included bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Prologue; Introduction; chapter 1 - Self-Reflexivity; chapter 2 - Performance; chapter 3 - Private Voices; chapter 4 - Embodied Language; chapter 5 - Public Speech; chapter 6 - Poetry and Place; chapter 7 - Experimentation and Form; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students