Women's poetry / Jo Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Jo, 1965-

Series:

Edinburgh critical guides to literature.

Edinburgh critical guides to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Prologue; Introduction; chapter 1 - Self-Reflexivity; chapter 2 - Performance; chapter 3 - Private Voices; chapter 4 - Embodied Language; chapter 5 - Public Speech; chapter 6 - Poetry and Place; chapter 7 - Experimentation and Form; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Included bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.

ISBN:

9786611089221

9781281089229

1281089222

9781780343563

1780343566

9780748629930

0748629939

OCLC:

476117747