Poetic memory : the forgotten self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück / Uta Gosmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosmann, Uta, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Howe, Susan, 1937---Criticism and interpretation.

Howe, Susan.

Hinsey, Ellen, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Hinsey, Ellen.

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Glück, Louise.

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023.

Hinsey, Ellen, 1960-.

Howe, Susan, 1937-.

Memory in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]

Summary:

How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of "poetic memory," a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject's intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know.

Gosmann explores poetic memory in the works of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Lousie Glück, four American poets writings in a wide range of styles and discussed here for the first time together. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and thinkers from Nietzsche and Benjamin to Halbwachs and Kristeva, Gosmann uses these demanding poets to articulate an alternative, non-empirical of the self in poetry. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Sylvia Plath : re-membering The colossus

Susan Howe's nonconformist memorials

Spacing the past in Ellen Hinsey's Cities of memory

Psychoanalyzing Persephone : Louise Glück's Averno

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611470369

1611470366

9781611470376

1611470374

OCLC:

704390062