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

• Autore: DuPlessis Rachel Blau
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.509353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Purple passages
• ISBN: 1-60938-094-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821340403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary North American poetry series.