Dwelling in Possibility : Women Poets and Critics on Poetry / Maeera Shreiber, Yopie Prins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prins, Yopie, editor.

Shreiber, Maeera, editor.

Series:

Reading Women Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminist poetry--History and criticism.

Feminist poetry.

Gender identity in literature.

Poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Women and literature.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 4 black/white illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectually exhilarating. This collection not only sets a new standard for feminist theorizing about poetic genres, it performs the pleasures of feminist reading in all their diversity."-Mary Loeffelholz, author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist TheoryDwelling in Possibility cuts across conventional boundaries between critical and creative writing by featuring the work of both women poets and feminist critics as they explore and exemplify the relationship between gender and poetic genres. The contributors suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Prins, Yopie / Shreiber, Maeera

PART I. QUESTIONING THE SUBJECT

1. When a "Long" Poem Is a "Big" Poem: Self-Authorizing Strategies in Women's Twentieth-Century "Long Poems" / Friedman, Susan Stanford

2. Female Power and the Devaluation of Renaissance Love Lyrics / Henderson, Diana E.

3. "Martha's Name," or The Scandal of "The Thorn" / Swann, Karen

4. Postscripts to Emily Dickinson / Howe, Susan

5· "Faith in Anatomy": Reading Emily Dickinson / Jackson, Virginia

PART II. THE VOICE IN QUESTION

6. On Voice / Dove, Rita

7- Trying Her Tongue / Philip, M. Nourbese

8. An Interweaving of Worlds / Harjo, Joy

9. Performing, Not Writing: The Reception of an Irish Woman's Lament / Bourke, Angela

10. Poetic Subject and Voice as Sites of Struggle: Toward a"Postrevisionist" Reading of Stevie Smith's Fairy-Tale Poems / Huk, Romana

11. Invading the "Transparent Laberynth": Anne Finch and the Poetics of Translation / Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth

PART III. CLASSICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

12. On "The Journey" / Boland, Eavan

13. A Few Cranky Paragraphs on Form and Content / Hacker, Marilyn

14. Genre Development and Gendered Voices in Erinna and Nossis / Gutzwiller, Kathryn

15. Sappho Shock / Carson, Anne

16. Sappho Doubled: Michael Field / Prins, Yopie

17. Sappho's Gymnasium / Broumas, Olga / Begley, T.

PART IV. BIBLICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

18. Entering the Tents / Ostriker, Alicia

19. In Her Own Images: Lucille Clifton and the Bible / Hull, Akasha (Gloria)

20. the woman's mourning song: a poetics of lamentation / Hooks, Bell

21. "Where Are We Moored?": Adrienne Rich, Women's Mourning, and the Limits of Lament / Shreiber, Maeera

22. Wrestling the Angel of Inscription / Wilner, Eleanor

23. Otherhow (and permission to continue) / DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Works Cited

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-8014-8294-1

1-5017-1817-7

OCLC:

1083581317