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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

Contemporary North American poetry series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Masculinity in literature.

Patriarchy in literature.

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

Literature and society.

United States.

History.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 250 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]

Summary:

Rachel Blau DuPlessis meticulously outlines key moments of choice and debate about masculinity among writers as disparate as Ezra Pond, T.S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg. In a striking book on male behavior in poetic dyads, Purple Passages, the third book in a feminist critical trilogy, tracks the poetic debates and arguments about gender that continuously affirm patriarchal poetry. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1

1 Manifesting Literary Feminism 3

2 Pound Edits Loy and Eliot 32

3 Succession and Supersession, from Z to "A" 59

Part 2

4 Poetic Projects of Countercultural Manhood 89

5 Sex/Gender Contradictions in Olson and Boldereff 117

6 Olson's "Long Exaggeration of Males" 142

7 Wieners and Creeley after Olson 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609380847

1609380843

9781609380946

1609380940

OCLC:

754389718