Writing lovers : reading Canadian love poetry by women / Meira Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Méira, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Canadian--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Canadian.

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

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In writings by the French post-structuralists, rhetorical tropes such as speechlessness, fragmentation, and deflection testify to the writer's difficulty in broaching the subject of love. Similarly, Cook shows that love poetry proceeds out of a profound failure of language resulting from the opacity of discourse, its lack of neutrality, or the fugitive transparency of reference. Writing Lovers also explores race, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity within the context of the passionate excesses of amatory discourse.

Contents:

The language of love : an oblique beginning

Love and other unofficial stories : narrative prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler

Possessed by love : the metaphoric production of desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept

In between : Dionne Brand's poetics of love and resistance

Love letters from an unmade bed : Dorothy Livesay's poetics of disquiet

On the line : revenge as confessional strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing and Nicole Markotic's "No goodbye, just:"

Bone memory : love and breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue marrow

Speaking in tongues : Daphne Marlatt's answering touch or how to sign a love letter.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86295-2

9786612862953

0-7735-7227-9