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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821340403321

Autore

DuPlessis Rachel Blau

Titolo

Purple passages : Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the ends of patriarchal poetry / / Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012

ISBN

1-60938-094-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Contemporary North American poetry series

Disciplina

811/.509353

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Gender identity in literature

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Masculinity in literature

Patriarchy in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One; 1. Manifesting Literary Feminism; 2. Pound Edits Loy and Eliot; 3. Succession and Supersession, from Z to "A"; Part Two; 4. Poetic Projects of Countercultural Manhood; 5. Sex/Gender Contradictions in Olson and Boldereff; 6. Olson's "Long Exaggeration of Males"; 7. Wieners and Creeley after Olson; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and eroticism? At once passionate and dispassionate, Rachel Blau DuPlessis meticulously outlines key moments of choice and debate about masculinity among writers as disparate as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg, choices that construct consequential models for institutions of poetic practice. As DuPlessis writes,