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.

Gender identity in literature.

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

Literature and society.

Masculinity in literature.

Patriarchy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609380946

1609380940

OCLC:

793166887