Abandoned women and poetic tradition / Lawrence Lipking.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipking, Lawrence, 1934-

Series:

Women in culture and society

Women in culture and society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Women in literature.

Poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Love poetry--History and criticism.

Love poetry.

Feminist criticism.

Canon (Literature).

Poetry--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xxvii,300 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Summary:

At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function- "in" poems and "for" writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226484521 :

0226484548

OCLC:

16870685