Understanding Adrienne Rich / Jeannette E. Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Jeannette E., author.

Series:

Understanding contemporary American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012--Criticism and interpretation.

Rich, Adrienne.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 114 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

Among the Most Celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize to the National Book Award to the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In Understanding Adrienne Rich, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Rich's long career from 1957 to her death in 2012 through a chronological exploration of her poetry and prose. Beginning with Rich's first two formally traditional collections, published in the late 1950S, then moving to the increasingly radical collections of the 19605 and 1970S, Riley details the evolution of Rich's feminist poetics as she investigated issues of identity, sexuality, gender, the desire to reclaim women's history, the dream of a common language, and a separate community for women. Throughout, Understanding Adrienne Rich interweaves explications of Rich's poetry with her prose, offering a close look at the development of the author's voice from formalist poet to feminist visionary to citizen poet. In doing so, this volume provides a survey of Rich's career and her impact on American literature and politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Understanding Adrienne Rich

"A Life I Didn't Choose / Chose Me": Transitions

Feminist Poetics

Entering History

Poetry and Politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Riley, Jeannette E., author. Understanding Adrienne Rich.

ISBN:

9781611176995

1611176999

OCLC:

949866163